Amazon and Iberdrola expand PPA partnership with 476MW

Amazon and Iberdrola have added an additional 476MW of renewable energy PPAs to their global renewable energy partnership, expanding its presence into five countries.

The new power purchase agreements include Amazon’s first PPA in Portugal for 219MW from the Tâmega Wind Complex, scheduled to begin construction in early 2025. It is the largest green hybridisation project in the country, according to Iberdrola, designed to make efficient use of the grid connection point already built at the Tâmega hydroelectric complex.

The partnership also expanded into Spain, with two utility scale PPAs agreed for a total 257MW of solar and wind energy.

Amazon will purchase 212MW capacity at the Ciudad Rodrigo solar PV plant in Salamanca, in Western Spain. In total, the project will produce clean energy to supply the equivalent of 150,000 homes per year.

Additionally, the output from 45MW from the Valdemoro wind farm located in the province of Burgos will be purchased. With an installed capacity of 49.5MW, capable of supplying the equivalent of 48,000 households, the project is made up of eleven wind turbines, with a height of 107.5 metres and a rotor diameter of 145 metres.

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Iberdrola and Amazon initiated their strategic partnership in 2022 for renewable energy PPAs and cloud services, with the new agreement enabling both parties to collaborate on additional projects in existing and new markets.

In total, Amazon has now contracted more than 66,000GWh of renewable energy from Iberdrola worldwide over the lifetime of all signed PPA agreements.

The commitment to securing renewable energy PPAs helps Amazon match the electricity consumed by its operations with 100% renewable energy, as part of its goal reach net-zero carbon emissions across its operations by 2040.

With more than 600 solar and wind projects globally, Amazon is the world's (and Spain's) largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy according to Bloomberg NEF for the fifth year running.

In August 2024, Iberdrola selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider for generative artificial intelligence (AI) workloads, as part of their global collaboration. Utilising AWS’s AI capabilities, Iberdrola’s distribution business is now innovating to improve the grid connection process for new points of supply. Iberdrola’s Renewables business is also optimising its windfarm design process by leveraging the compute power of the AWS Cloud to simulate wake effects and further improve the layout of wind turbines.