Beer firm brewing up a solar farm

Anheuser-Busch is making good on its pledge to be a more renewable brewer. The company is partnering with San Francisco-based solar developer Recurrent Energy, which will build and maintain the 2,000-acre solar farm in Texas’ Pecos County. When the solar farm is completed in 2021, Anheuser-Busch will buy credits to offset the electricity it uses at its 22 U.S. breweries.

The new solar facility is the size of 1,500 football fields and will produce 650 gigawatt hours of energy each year — the equivalent of brewing 20 billion 12-ounce servings of beer. Anheuser-Busch says the facility will help the country’s largest brewer meet its renewable energy goal for all its U.S. beers.