Companies supporting the environment: Amazon opens wind and solar plants in the US and UK

Amazon, the largest Internet company in the world and US e-commerce giant, based in Seattle in the state of Washington, has been at the forefront of the campaign for renewable energy. 

In fact, the company announced three major projects for the production of renewable energy. These will be located in the United States of America and the United Kingdom. 

Let's start with the two solar energy production plants that will be placed in America. They will be located in Warren County, North Carolina, and Prince George County, Virginia and together they total 215 MW and are expected to generate 500,997 MWh of energy annually. 

These "new entries" will be added to the plants already opened by the company in the two states, in fact they will be the second in the state of North Carolina and the eighth renewable energy project in Virginia. 

As far as the European project is concerned, this is a new wind power plant to be opened in the Kintyre Peninsula, in Scotland, and it will be the largest corporate wind power purchase agreement (PPA) in the UK. Once complete, the new Amazon Wind Farm will provide 50 megawatts (MW) of new renewable capacity with expected generation of 168,000 megawatt hours (MWh) of clean energy annually, enough to power 46,000 UK homes. 

Amazon's commitment continues to give a positive example. Infact, the company had already launched 18 utility-scale wind and solar renewable energy projects (that will generate over 1,600 MW of renewable capacity and deliver more than 4.6 million MWh of clean energy annually) and installed more than 50 solar rooftops on fulfillment centers and sort centers around the globe (that generate 98 MW of renewable capacity and deliver 130,000 MWh of clean energy annually). 

The three new Amazon renewable energy projects will provide 265 MW of additional renewable capacity and are expected to begin producing energy in 2021, supplying energy to the company’s Amazon Web Services data centers, which power Amazon and millions of AWS customers globally. 

Why all this? Because Amazon has decided to commit to respect 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.