Amazon introduced that it has signed 9 new energy buy agreements (PPAs) in Australia, marking its largest renewable power funding within the nation in a single 12 months, and bringing its whole renewables capability in Australia to almost 1 GW.
The brand new agreements will present the tech large with 430 MW of power from initiatives situated throughout New South Wales and Victoria. In line with the corporate, the brand new PPAs will help the enlargement of its cloud computing and information heart AI operations.
The corporate added that eight of the brand new agreements embrace co-located battery power storage methods, marking the corporate’s first solar-battery hybrid initiatives in Australia, and the primary outdoors the U.S.
The brand new portfolio consists of one wind farm, three utility-scale solar-battery hybrid initiatives, 4 distributed solar-battery initiatives, and a brand new battery power storage system to be added to the prevailing Mokoan photo voltaic PV energy plant. Mission builders embrace OX2, X-ELIO, Anza, TagEnergy, and European Vitality.
Amazon ranked as the biggest company purchaser of carbon-free power in Australia in 2025, and one of many main purchasers worldwide in line with a latest report by BloombergNEF.
Since 2020, Amazon has invested an estimated A$2.8 billion (USD$2 billion) in renewable power initiatives throughout Australia. The corporate stated that its new renewable power investments will complement its deliberate A$20 billion funding to broaden information heart infrastructure in Australia by 2029.
Amazon Net Providers Head of Infrastructure and Vitality Coverage ANZ Matt O’Rourke stated:
“As we broaden our cloud and AI infrastructure, we’re powering it not solely with carbon-free power, but in addition battery storage that strengthens grid reliability and proves information centres can run confidently on an more and more renewables-based system. These long-term, storage-backed PPAs allow new initiatives to proceed and assist to stabilise electrical energy prices.”
