Amazon Locks In Power From Three New Australian Solar Farms

• Amazon signs PPAs with European Energy for three solar farms in Victoria and Queensland, securing ~300 MWp to power its AU$20 billion data-centre expansion.

Amazon has inked a trio of power-purchase agreements with Denmark’s European Energy that will deliver clean electricity from three solar parks in Victoria and Queensland, securing a combined installed capacity of about 300 MWp for the tech giant’s Australian operations. The deal cements Amazon’s status as the world’s largest corporate buyer of renewables while giving European Energy a marquee offtaker as it scales up its local pipeline.

The arrangement bundles one operating site—the 58-MW Mokoan Solar Farm near Winton in northern Victoria—with two projects moving through procurement: Winton North (≈100 MW) outside Glenrowan, Victoria, and Bullyard (≈100–125 MWdc) near Bundaberg on Queensland’s central coast. Once ground breaks later this year, the green-field parks are expected to reach commercial operation in 2027, bringing European Energy’s Australian portfolio past the 1-GW milestone.

For Amazon, the long-term PPAs dovetail with a newly announced AU$20 billion infrastructure push that will double the capacity of the company’s data-centre network in Sydney and Melbourne by 2029. The cloud-computing expansion hinges on a parallel build-out of carbon-free generation; the three European Energy sites will join eight existing wind and solar projects already powering Amazon facilities across Australia.

Once all eleven contracted renewable assets are on line, Amazon estimates they will pump more than 1.4 million MWh of clean electricity into the National Electricity Market each year—roughly enough to meet the annual needs of 290,000 homes—while helping the company stay on track to match 100 percent of its consumption with renewables this decade.

European Energy Australia country manager Catriona McLeod said the partnership “shows how global tech leaders can accelerate Australia’s energy transition by backing utility-scale projects at an early stage,” adding that local content rules and community benefit funds are “baked into every contract.” Amazon, for its part, called the PPAs “another step toward our net-zero 2040 target and a demonstration of our commitment to invest where we operate.”