Amazon Announces New Renewable Projects of 3.5 GW Across the World

Global ecom giant Amazon has announced it is investing in 37 new renewable energy projects across the globe adding up to 3.5 GW. The new projects will include 26 solar power projects, 3 wind energy farms and 8 rooftop solar projects at Amazon buildings around the world. Amazon continues to be the largest renewable energy purchaser in the world.

Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon, said. “Our commitment to protecting the planet and limiting Amazon’s impact on the environment has led us to become the largest corporate buyer of renewable energy in the world in both 2020 and 2021. Given the growth of our business, and our mission to run 100 percent of Amazon’s operations on renewable energy, we aren’t slowing our renewable investments down.”

He added, “We now have 310 wind and solar projects across 19 countries, and are working hard to reach our goal of powering 100 percent of our business on renewable energy by 2025—five years ahead of our original target of 2030.”

Amazon has also declared that with the fresh announcements of the investments, the current total renewable energy portfolio of Amazon now stands at 15.7 GW from 310 renewable energy projects. Now it has a total of 134 wind and solar projects and 176 rooftop solar installations.

Amazon also held that it’s investing in battery storage too. The upcoming 300 MW solar power project in Arizona, USA, will be coupled with a 150 MW battery storage by Amazon. Similarly, the 150 MW solar project in California will also harbor 75 MW battery storage. With this, Amazon will take the combined ‘solar plus storage’ capacity from 220MW to 445MW.

Distribution of Projects

Amazon will now be building 23 new renewable power projects in the US alone where it will now have a total capacity of 10.4GW. The Texas based 500 MW solar power project will be the largest RE project of Amazon.

Similarly Spain will have 314 MW of additional renewable energy capacity through three solar farms and two wind farms. France will witness the renewable energy project that brings the capacity of Amazon in the country to 38MW. Eight new rooftop solar projects will come up in the UAE of 2.7 MW and in Australia, Canada, India, and Japan of over 5MW.