NEW DELHI : Amazon on Tuesday introduced that the corporate grew its renewable vitality capability in 2022 by 8.3 GW by way of 133 new tasks in 11 nations.
“Amazon’s complete portfolio for renewables now could be greater than 20 GW. The corporate’s purchases proceed so as to add new wind and photo voltaic tasks on the grids that energy operations, together with Amazon Net Providers (AWS) information facilities, Amazon success facilities, and bodily shops all over the world,” Amazon stated in a press launch.
With the continued investments, Amazon has set a brand new company document for essentially the most renewable vitality introduced by a single firm in a single 12 months. It stays the biggest company purchaser of renewable vitality.
“These purchases additionally deliver Amazon nearer to powering its operations with 100% renewable vitality by 2025—5 years head of its unique 2030 goal. In 2022, the corporate introduced new tasks in Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, Poland, Singapore, Spain, and the U.S., and broke floor in Brazil, India, and Indonesia,” it added.
With 25 new renewable vitality tasks secured to shut out the 12 months, the corporate now has 401 tasks globally, together with 164 wind farms and photo voltaic farms, and 237 rooftop photo voltaic tasks on Amazon amenities. As soon as operational, Amazon’s international renewable vitality tasks are anticipated to generate 56,881 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of unpolluted vitality annually.
“As we proceed to launch new renewable vitality tasks all over the world, we’re happy to be on observe to energy our operations with 100% renewable vitality, 5 years forward of our unique goal,” stated Adam Selipsky, CEO of AWS.
He added that with the 133 tasks introduced in 11 nations in 2022, Amazon had one other document 12 months. “These tasks spotlight the variety of our renewable vitality sources and showcase our capacity to deliver new applied sciences to new markets and additional scale back the impacts of local weather change.”
In 2022, Amazon introduced 43 new APAC renewable vitality tasks representing 1,200 MW.
“In India, Amazon launched its third wind-solar hybrid mission positioned in Karnataka representing 200MW capability. Mixed with three photo voltaic farms in Rajasthan, Amazon now has six utility-scale renewable vitality tasks in India, representing greater than 920MW of renewable vitality capability,” the corporate stated in a press launch.
“Our work with the federal government and trade has resulted in encouraging progress on our dedication to acquire clear vitality to energy our operations. We closed out 2022 with 920 MW of renewable vitality capability by way of utility-scale tasks in India,” stated Abhinav Singh, Director, Buyer Fulfilment, Provide Chain & Amazon Transportation Providers, Amazon India.
Singh added that the corporate is happy to play a component in serving to scale company renewable vitality procurement choices within the nation by facilitating trade dialogues with the federal government.
The brand new Amazon tasks assist India’s Ministry of New and Renewable Vitality’s (MNRE) wind-solar hybrid coverage, which goals to allow extra such hybrid tasks to effectively make the most of transmission infrastructure and land, and scale back variability in renewable technology, which improves grid stability.
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