Amazon Web Services has signed a contract with EDP Renewables to construct and operate a 100MW wind farm in Paulding County in Ohio.
The Amazon Wind Farm US Central is expected to start generating approximately 320,000MWh of power a year starting in May 2017.
The electricity generated will be delivered into the electrical grid that supplies both current and future AWS Cloud data centers.
Amazon Web Services vice president of infrastructure Jerry Hunter said: “We continue to pursue projects that help to develop more renewable energy sources to the grids that power AWS datacenters and bring us closer to achieving our long term goal of powering our global infrastructure with 100 percent renewable energy.
“Our previously announced renewable energy projects put AWS on track to surpass our goal of 40% renewable energy globally by the end of 2016. This latest project, Amazon Wind Farm US Central, pushes our renewable energy percentage ever higher.”
EDP Renewables chief executive officer João Manso Neto said: “We are very excited to be working with AWS on this important project in Ohio.
“The fact that businesses such as AWS are playing such an active part in renewable energy projects is a very clear indicator that the future lies in additional generation of this type of energy.
“The support for this project shows the industry’s confidence in our delivery capacity, experience, and know-how.”
Image: EDPR’s Blue Canyon wind farm in Oklahoma (EDPR)
