Amazon Announces Its Largest Wind Farm to Date – A New 253 Megawatt Wind Farm in West Texas
September 15 2016 - 7:59AM
Business Wire
Amazon Wind Farm Texas joins large Amazon wind
and solar farms in Indiana, North Carolina, Ohio, and Virginia
(NASDAQ: AMZN)—Amazon today announced “Amazon Wind Farm Texas,”
a new 253-megawatt (MW) wind farm in Scurry County, Texas, that
will generate 1,000,000 megawatt hours (MWh) of wind energy
annually – enough energy to power almost 90,000 U.S. homes1. Amazon
Wind Farm Texas will include more than 100 turbines, each with a
rotor diameter twice as long as the wingspan of a Boeing 747.
Scheduled to open in late 2017, Amazon Wind Farm Texas will be the
company’s largest renewable energy project to date. Amazon
previously announced wind and solar farms in Indiana, North
Carolina, Ohio and Virginia that deliver energy to the electrical
grids supplying both current and future Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Cloud data centers. The five projects together will generate more
than 2.6 million MWh of renewable energy each year, enough to power
more than 240,000 U.S. homes.
“We’re excited to work with the community in Scurry County and
Lincoln Clean Energy to generate 1,000,000 MWh of renewable energy
each year from West Texas,” said Kara Hurst, director of
sustainability, Amazon. “Amazon Wind Farm Texas is our largest
renewable energy project to date and the newest milestone in our
long-term sustainability efforts across the company.”
Amazon contracted with Lincoln Clean Energy (LCE), who will
construct, own and operate the new wind farm. Amazon will purchase
about 90% of the power generated by the wind farm. LCE is a leading
developer of wind and solar projects across the United States and
is a portfolio company of I Squared Capital, a global
infrastructure fund.
“We applaud Amazon’s leadership in directly purchasing renewable
power,” said Declan Flanagan, founder and CEO of Lincoln Clean
Energy. “Direct purchasing by large, long-term thinking customers
like Amazon has quickly become a key driver of the transition to
renewable power across the U.S.”
Amazon Wind Farm Texas is one of several clean energy
initiatives Amazon is undertaking. Examples of other projects
include wind and solar farms to add renewable energy to the
electrical grids that supply AWS Cloud datacenters, green rooftops,
and the District Energy Project that uses recycled energy for
heating offices in Seattle. For more information on Amazon’s
sustainability initiatives, visit
www.amazon.com/sustainability.
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than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to
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About Lincoln Clean Energy
Lincoln Clean Energy (LCE) is a leading developer of U.S. wind
and solar projects with offices in Chicago, IL and Austin, TX.
Since 2011, LCE has developed over 1,000 megawatts of renewable
power projects in California, New Jersey and Texas. In December
2015, LCE was acquired by and became a portfolio company of I
Squared Capital, through its ISQ Global Infrastructure Fund, and
announced plans to deploy $250 million in equity investments
through 2018. I Squared Capital is an independent global
infrastructure investment manager focusing on energy, utilities,
and transport in North America, Europe, and select high growth
economies.
1 In 2012, the average annual electricity consumption for a U.S.
residential utility customer was 10,837 kWh, an average of 903
kilowatt-hours (kWh) per month.
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