Houston clean energy firm partners to bring solar power to Port Arthur

PORT ARTHUR, Texas — A Houston-based clean energy company, Diligence Offshore Services LLC, is advancing its vision to transform Port Arthur’s Pleasure Island into a hub for wind and solar energy production. The company, which signed a lease with Port Arthur in May 2025, announced a new partnership with Accusolar, a U.S. floating solar manufacturing company, to produce solar energy alongside wind-generated power.

Harry Crawford, founder of Diligence Offshore Services, said, “Our project execution team right now is leading us into what we call our FELL-0, bringing all the players together. The EPC contractors, we’re bringing together the group that’s going to do all the permitting.”

Accusolar plans to build 391 megawatts of floating solar panels, which Crawford described as “the third largest in the world right here in Port Arthur Pleasure Island and the largest in the nation.”

Crawford emphasized the project’s potential to drive economic growth and job creation in Port Arthur. “Our project comes with a community benefits plan. You know, we believe that in order to combat poverty, you need to create jobs, we are adamant about the Port Arthurans being employed first, you know. That’s a really big thing for us to bring the economic stimulus to the community and to try to help build the community,” he said.

Despite federal clean energy tax credit cutbacks under the Trump administration, Crawford remains confident in the project’s progress. “When we first came to Port Arthur, the thing that we said was we didn’t need their money. So, we don’t have any tax abatements. We’re not using any IRA money. We’re not using any federal subsidies. We’re not on any federal land. It has nothing to do with us,” he said.

Crawford expects to begin construction on the project’s substation on Pleasure Island within the next 30 days, with the initiative anticipated to create nearly 1,500 new jobs in the Port Arthur area.