Acciona, Amazon ink 641MW solar energy play

• Developer will certainly construct 4 new PV plants in Illinois, Kentucky as well as Ohio investing $1bn over following four years

Acciona has signed power purchase agreements with Amazon in the US covering even more 641MW of solar ability.

Acciona will certainly build 4 new solar photovoltaic or pv plants in Illinois, Kentucky as well as Ohio, with a total capability of 889MW, to meet Amazon's offtake demands.

The renewables developer will invest near to $1bn (EUR835m) over the next 4 years to establish these new projects.

The company PPAs are part of a set of 26 projects that Amazon announced earlier to aid meet its company-wide goal to make use of 100% renewable resource by 2030 and achieve web no carbon emissions by 2040.

The 26 projects plus Amazon's existing PPAs complete 6.5 GW of clean energy capacity around the globe.

These new assets come under Acciona's development technique to install 5GW of new renewable resource ability worldwide between 2020 as well as 2024.

The business has actually a complete installed capacity of over 10.5 GW in 16 countries.

"These four new projects with Acciona assist us towards our objective of powering our operations with 100% renewable resource," said Nat Sahlstrom, director, Amazon Energy.

"Acciona's significant projects allow us to include greater than 640MW of renewable power to the grid. Our promote even more renewable energy is one more step toward our objective of reaching net-zero carbon by 2040 as part of Amazon's dedication to The Climate Pledge," he included.

Both business' commitment also extends to Amazon Web Services (AWS) coming to be Acciona's "favored cloud supplier" to "get functional effectiveness, unlock data-driven understandings as well as increase its pace of innovation".