on a 2,135-acre site leased by the Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy. Dominion says it will provide critical operational, weather and environmental experience needed for large-scale development in the adjacent 112,800-acre site leased by Dominion Energy from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM). Full deployment could generate up to 2 GW of energy – enough to power half a million homes.

The two companies have signed a memorandum of understanding giving DONG Energy exclusive rights to discuss a strategic partnership with Dominion Energy about developing the commercial site (based on the successful deployment of the initial test turbines). DONG Energy, which is based in Denmark and has North American headquarters in Boston, owns 22 offshore wind farms in Europe and Asia.

The project continues what previously wasto fully power all of its production sites in Mexico, including its largest brewery in Zacatecas.

As part of the agreement, which was signed on March 28 in Mexico, Iberdrola agreed to build and install 220 MW of wind energy capacity onshore in the state of Puebla.

Tony Milikin, chief procurement and sustainability officer at AB InBev, says the new wind project is called PIER (Parque Industrial de Energia Renovable), noting it’s an extension of an existing PIER wind farm owned by Iberdrola. Gamesa has been contracted to manufacture the turbines, with delivery expected in early 2018.

The beverage company expects the wind facility to begin producing energy in the first half of 2019, and according to Iberdrola Mexico’s spokesperson, construction has already begun.

With this first agreement, AB InBev is following