Amazon is the largest corporate buyer of
renewable energy globally and is on a path to power 100% of its
business with renewable energy by 2025
Amazon’s renewable energy investments
equivalent to energy use of 3 million U.S. homes and will eliminate
13.7 million metric tons of carbon emissions each year as Amazon
works to reach net-zero carbon by 2040
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced 18 new
utility-scale wind and solar energy projects across the U.S.,
Finland, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the U.K., totaling 5.6
gigawatts (GW) of procured capacity to date in 2021. Amazon now has
274 renewable energy projects globally and is on a path to power
100% of its business operations with renewable energy by 2025—five
years earlier than its original 2030 commitment.
These new utility-scale wind and solar projects bring Amazon’s
total committed renewable electricity production capacity to more
than 12 GW and 33,700 gigawatt hours (GWh) when the projects become
fully operational, or electricity output equivalent to powering
more than 3 million U.S. homes for a year. The projects will supply
renewable energy for Amazon’s corporate offices, fulfillment
centers, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers that support
millions of customers globally. The projects will also help Amazon
meet its commitment to produce the clean energy equivalent of the
electricity used by all consumer Echo devices. The amount of clean
energy produced by these projects will avoid the equivalent of the
annual emissions of nearly 3 million cars in the U.S. each year, or
about 13.7 million metric tons.
“We are moving quickly and deliberately to reduce our carbon
emissions and address the climate crisis,” said Kara Hurst, vice
president of worldwide sustainability at Amazon. “Significant
investments in renewable energy globally are an important step in
delivering on The Climate Pledge, our commitment to reach net-zero
carbon by 2040, 10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement. Renewable
energy projects also bring new investment, green jobs, and advance
the decarbonization of the electricity systems in communities
around the world.”
Following today’s announcement, Amazon is the largest corporate
buyer of renewable energy in the world, with 274 global projects
including 105 utility-scale wind and solar projects and 169 solar
rooftops on facilities and stores worldwide. The 18 new wind and
solar projects announced today include:
- Eight new projects across the U.S.: Amazon added more
than 1 GW of utility-scale solar projects in the U.S., including
Amazon’s first solar projects in Arizona and Georgia, and
additional projects in Ohio, Texas, and Virginia. In total, Amazon
has enabled more than 6 GW of renewable energy in the U.S. through
62 projects.
- A second solar project paired with energy storage: Based
in Arizona, Amazon’s second solar project paired with energy
storage enables the company to align solar generation with periods
of the greatest demand, even when the sun is not shining. The
300-megawatt (MW) solar project is paired with a 150-MW battery
energy storage system and brings Amazon’s battery storage projects
to 220 MW.
- Four new renewable projects in the Nordics: Amazon added
158 MW through four wind projects in Finland, bringing its total
renewable energy portfolio across the Nordics to more than 950
MW.
- Additional projects in Italy, Spain, and Northern
Ireland: Amazon’s new solar project in Italy is the
company’s third in the country, adding 40 MW on top of the 66 MW
already enabled. In Spain, Amazon’s four new solar projects
together add more than 630 MW to the grid. A new wind project in
Northern Ireland brings Amazon’s portfolio to 245 MW on Ireland’s
all-island grid and its total U.K. portfolio to more than 545 MW of
wind energy. In total, Amazon has enabled more than 3.5 GW of
renewable energy in Europe through 34 projects, making it the
largest procurer of renewable energy in Europe.
To see Amazon’s renewable energy projects around the world,
visit our interactive map.
“Amazon is wasting no time demonstrating that they are fully
committed to a clean energy future for all,” said Gregory Wetstone,
CEO of the American Council on Renewable Energy. “At COP26, the
world agreed we needed bigger and bolder ambitions around global
carbon reduction from all sectors. With hundreds of renewable
energy projects already underway, Amazon is a model for the level
of urgency and action we need from the private sector to combat the
climate crisis.”
“For the second year in a row, Amazon has set new records as it
works toward fully powering its operations with renewable energy by
2025, five years ahead of schedule,” said Miranda Ballentine, CEO
of Clean Energy Buyers Association (CEBA). “Large-scale clean
energy investments like these benefit us all and should be the new
normal for industries of all shapes and sizes. They bring
good-paying, green jobs to local communities and support progress
toward our community's goal of a 90% carbon-free U.S. electricity
system.”
“Amazon’s procurement of 12 GW of renewable energy capacity
globally is a strong testament to the company’s commitment to
reaching net-zero carbon by 2040,” said Hannah Hunt, impact
director at RE-Source, a corporate renewable energy sourcing
platform in Europe. “The company’s 10 new renewable energy
operations across Europe will benefit communities, bring new green
jobs, and help meet our commitments to curb the climate
crisis.”
Amazon and Global Optimism co-founded The Climate Pledge in
2019. The Pledge now has more than 200 signatories, including Best
Buy, IBM, Microsoft, PepsiCo, Siemens, Unilever, Verizon, and Visa.
To reach its goal, Amazon will continue to reduce emissions across
its operations by taking real business actions and establishing a
path to power its operations with 100% renewable energy, five years
ahead of the company’s original target of 2030; delivering its
Shipment Zero vision to make all Amazon shipments net-zero carbon,
with 50% net-zero carbon by 2030; purchasing 100,000 electric
delivery vehicles, the largest order ever of electric delivery
vehicles; and by 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. Customer reviews,
1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment
by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets,
Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and
services 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions,
with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more
AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New
Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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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