Google buys power from record-busting solar-battery site in Arkansas

Published on July 15, 2026

Longtime solar developer Cypress Creek Energy has not only broken ground on what could be the largest solar-plus-storage plant in the country, but also secured a blue-chip customer to pay for the clean power. Google will buy all the electricity from the first two phases of the forthcoming Steel River Energy Center…

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