Engie has signed five corporate power purchase agreements to supply Google with 118MW of power from its onshore wind farms in Belgium.
The technology giant will offtake electricity from four new wind farms totalling 26MW, and has agreed to extend an existing CPPA for a 92MW operational site by a further eight years.
The power will be used by Google for its digital infrastructure portfolio in the country.
Engie said it sold 2.4GW of green electricity to industry and large energy consumers in 2023, and announced 34 PPA deals across six markets during the year.
Engie’s Belgium chief executive Vincent Verbeke said: “We are delighted to partner with the reference corporates of the tech industry, and in particular with Google, as most players of the sector are accelerating widely the development of their infrastructure and stepping up their purchasing programmes for carbon-free energy.
“As the top developer for clean energy cPPAs worldwide, we are proud to contribute to the economic feasibility of new investments for renewable projects while supporting the operations and the investments of energy-intensive industries, as well as their local anchorage.”
Google’s data centre lead in Belgium Frederic Descamps added: “We’re pursuing net zero emissions across our operations and value chain by 2030, supported by an ambitious clean energy goal to operate our data centres and office campuses on 24/7 carbon-free energy.
“Our ambition to make a positive impact in every grid that we operate in can be met working closely with leading energy companies such as Engie, a long-term partner for Google in Belgium, sharing similar commitments to our sustainable goals.”