Amazon bolsters solar tally in new 3.5 GW renewables investment

• Tech major Amazon has actually included 37 new renewable energy projects to its portfolio, including 26 new utility-scale solar projects with an overall of 3.5 GW of additional power to its already 12.2 GW portfolio of renewable energy.

Eight new roof solar installations have actually additionally been contributed to the company's renewables investment portfolio, including projects in the United States, Spain, France and also the United Arab Emirates.

The suite of new projects will certainly add 3.5 GW to Amazon's portfolio, most of which will be located in the US, with 23 new projects spread across 13 states. Amazon has actually included 3.2 GW of new renewable energy in the United States, taking its complete sustainable capacity in the nation to 10.4 GW.

The firm has likewise stepped up its investments in colocated solar-storage projects with 2 new hybrid facilities in Arizona and also California. The project in Arizona will have 300MW of solar PV coupled with 150MW of battery storage space while the California project will certainly have set 150MW of solar PV with 75MW of battery storage space.

Both most recent projects will certainly increase Amazon's current solar PV paired with power storage space capacity from 220MW to 445MW.

Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon, said: "We now have 310 wind and also solar projects across 19 nations, and are working hard to reach our goal of powering 100% of our service on renewable energy by 2025-- 5 years ahead of our original target of 2030."

Furthermore, Spain will certainly see the 2nd largest addition with 314MW of renewable energy separated in 3 solar farms and also 2 wind farms, thus bringing the total amount in Spain to 1.4 GW in between 14 projects, while adjoining country France will certainly see its 2nd solar farm and also will certainly bring the country's total capacity to 38MW.

Lastly, the tech company will certainly include its very first rooftop solar in Dubai with a 2.7 MW installation, while the continuing to be 7 rooftop projects will certainly be distributed in between Australia, Canada, India as well as Japan with over 5MW of solar capacity in total amount.

In December 2021, Amazon had contributed to its portfolio 2GW of solar PV capacity in Spain, Italy and across 5 US states between 18 different renewable projects.