Microsoft Corp. plans to buy a significant amount of the energy produced from a planned solar power project in Spotsylvania County, which is expected to be the largest solar farm in Virginia and one of the largest on the East Coast.
The Seattle-based software company is expected to announce Thursday morning its plans to buy 315 megawatts of power — more than half of the energy expected to be generated from the 500 megawatt solar development called Pleinmont. The planned development would include more than 750,000 solar panels on a 3,500-acre site in rural, western Spotsylvania.
The development is being planned by Sustainable Power Group LLC, or sPower, a Salt Lake City-based company, which in 2017 was acquired as a joint venture of Arlington-based power company AES Corp. and Canada-based investment fund AIMCo.
