Amazon continues renewable energy spree with 476 MW purchase

Renewants won another win by signing the Amazon agreement for 476 MW of air and solar buying on the Iberian Peninsula.

Amazon should help feed the new data centers planned in the region with a power purchase contract with multinational utility igrola. The company said last May that it would invest $ 17 billion In infrastructure projects including Spain’s Data Center.

Amazon’s power bill is increasing lately due to the addition of data centers to deal with the growing demand of AI and Cloud Services.

One of the projects in which Amazon is buying – Tamega Wind Farm – is being built along with a huge hydropower dam system in Portugal. The complex has a total of three dams, one of which is an 880-megawat Pumpd-Storage Dam.

There are two reservoirs in the pump-storage facilities, a higher at a height, a lower. When electricity is needed, water is released from the top reservoir to the spin turbines. When there is extra energy, the huge pumps transfer water from the bottom to the bottom of the reservoir. The pump storage is a huge battery in reality.

The 274-Megawat air turbines installed in the tamega will consume electricity on the grid through the existing connection of the hydro complex and when the excess, it can be used to pump water in the upper reservoir. This national hybrid installations ensure that the grid can be consistently fed from interim renewable resources such as air and solar.

Amazon is also buying a portion of the power from more common air and solar plants in North West. Last year, the company was the largest buyer of renewable energy.

Technology companies are buying electricity from renewable projects at fairly consistent speeds, how fast and cheap air can be installed in its part of the air, solar and battery. Last month, Meta said it had made two big signs Deal for solar powerAnd Microsoft And Google It was previously announced that they each supported many million dollars of renewable investment.