Amazon now has 202 renewable energy projects in North America, 117 in Europe, 57 in Asia and the Pacific, one in the Middle East, one in Africa, and its first project in South America
The total renewable energy projects
enabled by Amazon will generate 50,000 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of clean energy—or
enough to power 4.6 million U.S. homes each year
SEATTLE, Sept 23 (BUSINESS WIRE)
-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced that it is expanding its renewable
energy portfolio globally, with an additional 2.7 gigawatts (GW) of clean
energy capacity across 71 new renewable energy projects. This includes the
company’s first renewable energy project in South America—a solar farm in
Brazil—and its first solar farms in India and Poland. Once fully operational,
Amazon’s global renewable energy portfolio will generate 50,000 gigawatt hours
(GWh) of clean energy, which is the equivalent amount of electricity needed to
power 4.6 million U.S. homes each year.
“We are bringing new wind and solar projects online
to power our offices, fulfillment centers, data centers, and stores, which
collectively serve millions of customers globally, and we are on a path to
reach 100% renewable energy across our entire business by 2025,” said Adam
Selipsky, CEO of Amazon Web Services. “Around the world, countries are looking
to accelerate the transition to a clean energy economy, and continued
investments like ours can help accelerate their journey as we all work together
to mitigate the impacts of climate change.”
As the largest corporate purchaser of renewable
energy globally, Amazon now has a total of 379 renewable energy projects across
21 countries, including 154 wind and solar farms and 225 rooftop solar
projects, representing 18.5 GW of renewable energy capacity. By the end of
2021, the company had reached 85% renewable energy across its business.
Amazon continues to successfully enable projects in
power grids around the world, including:
- In
the Asia-Pacific region, Amazon is announcing the company’s first three
large-scale projects in India. All three are solar projects in Rajasthan,
representing 420 megawatts (MW) of clean energy capacity. Amazon is
scaling fast in India, and these first investments play a critical role in
reducing our carbon emissions in the country. In the Asia-Pacific region,
the company now has a total of 57 renewable energy projects.
- In
Europe, Amazon now has 117 renewable energy projects. Amazon is announcing
its first rooftop solar projects in France and Austria, and its first
solar farm in Poland. Amazon’s investment in its first utility-scale
project in Poland is one of the largest corporate solar deals announced to
date in the country. With this commitment, Amazon is directly contributing
to the Polish government’s goal of increasing renewable energy on its
grid. Corporate support of new renewable energy projects like Amazon’s
helps open up the market for additional wind and solar farms, and
accelerates the decarbonization of the grid.
- In
North America, Amazon is adding 1 GW of clean energy capacity across the
Southeastern U.S., including the company’s first two renewable energy
projects in Louisiana. The company now has a total of 202 projects across
North America.
- In
South America, Amazon is announcing its first renewable energy project,
which is a 122 MW solar farm in Brazil. In addition to providing renewable
power to Amazon’s operations in the region, this project will also provide
economic benefits to the local economy and the region’s biodiversity. The
project includes a $380,000 (R$2 million) investment in environmental
programs during construction to protect and promote biodiversity. The
project is estimated to create 850 jobs during the construction phase,
with an additional 30 permanent jobs once the project becomes operational.
To help scale the benefits of investments in the
renewable energy sector as it continues to grow, Amazon is also working through
the Clean Energy Buyers Institute’s (CEBI) Beyond the Megawatt initiative to
ensure the industry is maximizing the economic, environmental, and social
impact of energy procurement.
“As a key leader in the CEBA community, Amazon
continues to demonstrate that when it commits to a vision, it drives a pace and
scale that’s a new bar to follow,” said Miranda Ballentine, CEO of Clean Energy Buyers Association (CEBA) and Clean Energy Buyers Institute (CEBI).
“Amazon also continues to be a leader in not only deploying today’s clean
energy procurement tools at scale, but also in leading its community of peers
and partners in developing tomorrow’s clean energy solutions—whether that’s
focusing on ensuring renewables have sustainable supply chains or expanding the
impact of clean energy through next generation procurement tools.”
“With its landmark solar projects announced in
Poland and France, Amazon has taken crucial steps towards its net-zero pledge,
while supporting Europe’s own climate goals,” said Walburga Hemetsberger, CEO
of SolarPower Europe, founding partner of the RE-Source Platform. “As Europe
faces skyrocketing energy prices, solar and renewable energy deals will
strengthen Amazon’s strategic resilience—we hope to see more companies follow
Amazon’s lead.”
Amazon co-founded The Climate Pledge in
2019, committing to reach net-zero carbon by 2040—10 years ahead of the Paris
Agreement. The Pledge now has more than 375 signatories, including Best Buy,
IBM, Microsoft, PepsiCo, Siemens, Unilever, Verizon, and Visa. Amazon has also
ordered 100,000 electric delivery vehicles, the largest order ever of electric
delivery vehicles, and has started to roll them out across the U.S. The company
is also investing $2 billion in the development of decarbonizing services and
solutions through The Climate Pledge Fund. For more information, visit https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com/.
About Amazon
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obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to
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About Amazon Web Services
For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the
world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been
continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and
it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage,
databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence
(AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented
reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and
management from 87 Availability Zones within 27 geographic regions, with
announced plans for 21 more Availability Zones and seven more AWS Regions in
Australia, Canada, India, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, and Switzerland. Millions
of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and
leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become
more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.
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