Google And NextEra Energy Resources Power Nebraska With Wind Energy

Omaha Public Power District (OPPD) is making strides to reliably power the future of Nebraska with a new clean capacity collaboration with Google and NextEra Energy Resources LLC. The collaboration will allow OPPD to access 600 MW of wind capacity from NextEra Energy Resource’s High Banks Wind Energy Center. The High Banks Wind Energy Center, which is owned and operated by a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources LLC, has been online since December 2023 as a part of Google’s long term clean energy portfolio. Google is now supplying this capacity resource to OPPD and will retain the energy and environmental attributes from the project to support its 24/7 carbon-free energy goals.

Capacity contracts are important tools that allow electric utilities like OPPD to meet regulatory requirements that help ensure utilities have adequate resources to deliver power to customers. This project will help OPPD make significant strides in ensuring reliability as its service area experiences unprecedented growth.

“We are working toward an ambitious goal for every Google campus to operate on clean electricity every hour of every day by 2030. This includes Nebraska, which we’ve called home since collaborating with OPPD to break ground on our data center campus in Papillion in 2019,” said Amanda Peterson Corio, global head of data center energy for Google.