Under the contract, EDP Renewables will build and commission the 100MW Amazon Wind Farm US Central in May 2017.
Designed to generate approximately 320,000 megawatt hours (MWh) of wind energy per year, enough to meet the power requirement of more than 29,000 US homes, the wind farm is expected to become the fourth major renewable energy project for Amazon in 2015.
Power generated from the project will be delivered into the electrical grid which supplies both current and future AWS Cloud data centers.
AWS aims to meet at least 40% of its power requirements through renewable energy sources by the end of 2016.
Amazon Web Services infrastructure vice-president Jerry Hunter said: "We continue to pursue projects that help to develop more renewable energy sources to the grids that power AWS datacenters and bring us closer to achieving our long term goal of powering our global infrastructure with 100 percent renewable energy.
"This latest project, Amazon Wind Farm US Central, pushes our renewable energy percentage ever higher."
Along with the Amazon Wind Farm US Central project, Amazon’s renewable projects are expected t o generate more than 1.6 million MWh of additional renewable energy into electric grids across the central and eastern US.
AWS has joined the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) and the US Partnership for Renewable Energy Finance (US PREF) in April 2015 to work with state and federal policymakers and other stakeholders to provide cloud providers with more renewable energy opportunities.
Image: Amazon Web Services plans to 40% of its power requirements from renewable sources by the end of 2016. Photo: courtesy of Jomphong/ FreeDigitalPhotos.net.
