Amazon to Build Three Solar Farms in Spain and the U.S.
03 December 2019 - 10:41PM
Dow Jones News
By Maitane Sardon
Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) said Tuesday that it has started three
renewable energy projects in the U.S. and Spain as it works toward
achieving its goal of only using renewable energy by 2030.
The tech giant said the projects include a solar farm in the
Spanish city of Seville and two solar farms in Illinois's Lee
County and Northern Virginia.
The Spanish solar farm will provide 149 megawatts of renewable
energy capacity and the projects in Illinois and Virginia will
generate up to 400,000 megawatt hours of renewable energy annually.
Amazon said the solar farm in Lee County will be the company's
first large-scale renewable energy project in Illinois.
Once completed, the three farms will provide around 329
megawatts of renewable capacity, which will be used for the
company's fulfillment network in Europe and its web services data
centers.
"Addressing climate change will take all of us working together,
and leadership from state governments and the business community
will demonstrate how we can sustainably power a modern economy and
create good-paying jobs," said Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker,
adding that the state is on its way toward 100% renewable and clean
energy.
Amazon said it has launched more than 70 projects to date that
are projected to deliver more than 5.3 million megawatt hours of
renewable energy annually.
Write to Maitane Sardon at maitane.sardon@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
December 03, 2019 06:26 ET (11:26 GMT)
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