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Amazon, AES Partner on First Utility-Scale Wind Farm in Mississippi
Amazon, the online retailer with a goal of powering its operations with 100% renewable energy by 2025, on July 7 announced a project that would be the first utility-scale wind farm in Mississippi. The 184.5-MW Delta wind farm, being built in Tunica County, is Amazon’s sixth renewable energy installation in that state, and will join […]
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Amazon Extends Position as the World’s Largest Corporate Buyer of Renewable Energy
SEATTLE, Wash. (April 20, 2022) — Amazon today announced 37 new renewable energy projects around the world, marking significant progress on its path to power 100% of its operations with renewable energy by 2025—five years ahead of the original target of 2030. The new projects increase the capacity of Amazon’s renewable energy portfolio by nearly […]
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Resilient Power Secures $5 Million Seed Round to Scale Low-Cost EV Fast-Charging Technology and Power Grid Resiliency
Atlanta, Georgia (Oct. 27, 2021) — As increasing electric vehicle growth pressures the electric power infrastructure and the need for EV fast-charging increases, Resilient Power announced the closing of a $5 million seed round. The investment for the first-to-market provider of solid-state transformer-based electric vehicle (EV) fast charging technology was led by Energy Transition Ventures, […]
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Amazon Becomes Largest Corporate Buyer of Renewable Energy in the U.S.
Amazon is already the largest corporate buyer of renewable energy in Europe and globally, with 232 projects around the world, enough to power 2.5 million U.S. homes Amazon reaches 10 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity and advances its commitment to decarbonizing its business operations and reaching net-zero carbon by 2040 June 23, 2021 06:00 AM […]
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Amazon Announces Three New Renewable Energy Projects in the U.S. and UK
SEATTLE– Amazon on Oct. 24 announced three new renewable energy projects in the US and UK that support Amazon’s commitment to The Climate Pledge and reaching 80% renewable energy by 2024 and 100% renewable energy target by 2030 on its path to net zero carbon by 2040. Major investments in renewable energy are a critical […]
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Legal & Regulatory
State Opposition to Wind Power Spikes as Trump Prepares to Take Office
Amazon’s latest wind farm in coastal North Carolina has completed construction and is weeks from beginning operations—and state legislators have just asked the incoming Trump administration to shut it down. The $400 million, 208-MW, 104-turbine project, built by Apex Renewables near Elizabeth City and backed by financing from Iberdrola Renewables, is supposed to power Amazon’s […]
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TOP PLANT: Amazon Wind Farm Fowler Ridge, Benton County, Indiana
Owner/operator: Pattern Energy Just as Seattle’s Amazon.com jumpstarted the online shopping trend, it’s now part of another trend that has major corporations owning or contracting for sizable grid-connected renewable power facilities. A new wind farm in rural Indiana is part of that story. Cloud computing is big business, and it’s growing as fast as cumulous […]
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Pattern Energy Celebrates Dedication of 150 MW Amazon Wind Farm in Indiana with Amazon Web Services
SAN FRANCISCO, California, August 5, 2016 – Pattern Energy Group Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGI) (TSX: PEG) (“Pattern Energy”) today celebrated the dedication of the 150 megawatt (MW) Amazon Wind Farm Fowler Ridge in Benton County, Indiana. The electricity supplies the electric grids that service Amazon Web Services (AWS) datacenters. “It’s an honor to team with AWS […]