Amazon hails 3.4 MW solar project atop Tilbury fulfilment centre as its biggest in Europe

• A 3.4 MW solar system has been mounted at Amazon's fulfilment centre in Tilbury in its latest step in the direction of a 2040 web zero.

It is the biggest roof setup of any type of Amazon site in Europe, with 11,500 module solar panels installed across a site having 2 million sq. ft. of operating space.

The company outlined its plans to install 20MW of rooftop solar at its fulfilment sites in 2018, with the installations meant to occur over the complying with eighteen months. It is planning to be powered by 100% renewable resource by 2025, causing the business having more than 90 renewable resource projects worldwide. This consists of 31 utility-scale solar as well as wind projects and 60 solar rootops on fufilment as well as sorting centres.

Brittany Stanton, elderly power programme supervisor at Amazon, claimed the company will remain to buy "huge on-site solar installations" like the one in Tilbury to aid fulfill these targets, along with "large off-site renewable energy, wind and solar projects where the power goes into our regional utility grids".

As part of its sustainability objectives, Amazon is likewise planning to add 1,800 electric cars to its delivery fleet in Europe and also has partnered the We Mean Business union to develop what it stated is the "biggest effort to mobilise the economic sector to reach net no carbon by 2040".