US online retail giant Amazon has invested in nine renewable energy projects around the world – a move that puts it on track to beat its target of powering power all of its activities with renewable energy by 2025 – five years ahead of its original target of 2030.
The utility-scale wind and solar energy projects are in the US, Canada, Spain, Sweden and the UK, bringing Amazon’s total number of renewable energy projects to 206. This includes 71 utility-scale wind and solar projects and 135 solar rooftops on facilities and stores worldwide, which will generate 8.5 GW of electricity production capacity globally.
With this latest announcement, Amazon says it is now the largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy in Europe, with more than 2.5 GW of renewable energy capacity, enough to power more than two million European homes a year.
The projects supply renewable energy to Amazon’s corporate offices, fulfilment centres, Whole Foods Market stores, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centres, which power Amazon and millions of AWS customers globally. The renewable energy from these projects also helps Amazon meet its commitment to produce the clean energy equivalent to the electricity used by all consumer Echo devices.
Investing in renewable energy is one of a number of actions Amazon is taking as part of The Climate Pledge, a commitment to be net-zero carbon by 2040, ten years ahead of the Paris Agreement.
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