Ever.green Brings Microsoft Suppliers Together to Power a New Solar Project in Rural North Carolina

Ever.green announced the completion and commercial operation of Baron, a 5 MW solar project in Anson County, North Carolina, developed and operated by Headwater Energy. A cohort of Microsoft suppliers signed long-term High‑Impact REC contracts via Ever.green, providing the revenue certainty needed to reach financial close and bring the project online. The project will avoid roughly 7,810 metric tons of CO2 annually (≈1,820 cars removed), use domestically manufactured panels and local labor, and supply generation into the cooperative serving Pee Dee Electric. Market impact: this is a practical example of corporate buyers using long-term REC procurement to unlock project financing for new clean generation, signaling growing demand for structured REC products and potential upside for marketplaces and developers that enable such offtake agreements. It also underlines Microsoft’s supplier sustainability expectations, which could encourage similar procurement by other large buyers and support more predictable long-term electricity supply mixes for regional cooperatives.