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
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
Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather
than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to
operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Amazon strives to
be Earth’s Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth’s Best Employer,
and Earth’s Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click
shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by
Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire
tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology,
Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things
pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about
and follow @AmazonNews.
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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