E-commerce behemoth Amazon has forayed into the renewable energy space of Singapore, supporting the development of 62 MW ground mounted solar project capacity, soon after it earned the tag of becoming the world’s ‘largest’ corporate procurer of renewable energy (see Amazon Invests In 3.4 GW Renewable Energy Capacity). Royal Dutch Shell backed Sinagporean solar power […]
Amazon is the biggest corporate buyer of renewable energy
Tech companies are leading the charge to power their operations with renewable energy. By the end of 2020, Amazon had moved to the front of the pack, surpassing Google for the first time. More companies are signing on to science-based decarbonization targets, in which one key aim is to use only fossil-fuel-free electricity. But when […]
Amazon unveils its largest single renewable energy project ever
The company is investing in an offshore wind project in Europe. Amazon is investing in the company’s largest renewable energy project to date, in the form of a European offshore wind farm located just under 20 kilometers off the coast of the Netherlands. The retail-to-cloud-computing giant is co-investing in the project alongside a consortium made […]
Amazon needs electric vehicles, too
In the frothy EV sector, companies focused on parcel-delivery vans have a stronger business case than most When you think of electric vehicles, you might think first of a Tesla. But a more financially rewarding use of the technology that is upending the automotive industry could be the vans that deliver your online shopping. Until […]
GM to build electric delivery vans under new BrightDrop brand
The move comes with GM and other automakers racing to keep pace with electric carmaker Tesla’s dizzying growth, and as Amazon is set to launch its own electric delivery vans from the startup Rivian Washington: General Motors unveiled plans Tuesday to build electric vans under the new BrightDrop brand, in a move aimed at creating […]
Amazon to Make Solar, Wind Investments in South Africa
In a bid to generate a clean and stable electricity supply for its data centers in South Africa, U.S. multinational Amazon is developing utility-scale wind and solar projects. According to a recent announcement by the company, 26 projects with a total generation capacity of 3.4 GW will be developed across eight countries, bringing its total […]
Amazon’s Zoox unveils autonomous electric vehicle
The carriage-style interior of the vehicle produced by Zoox Inc. has two benches that face each other. There is no steering wheel. It measures just under 12 feet long, about a foot shorter than a standard Mini Cooper. An autonomous vehicle company acquired this year by Amazon has unveiled a four-person “robo-taxi,” a compact, a […]
N Cape solar farm to power Amazon’s South African data centres
Though Amazon.com is staying mum for now on details of its planned “utility-scale” renewable energy project in South Africa, it has emerged that it will source the power from a giant solar farm to be built in the Northern Cape. The project, which has already been approved by energy regulator Nersa, is being led by […]
Amazon is going to generate its own renewable electricity over South Africa’s national grid
Amazon is planning to generate its own electricity to run through the grid of South Africa’s struggling state-owned power utility Eskom. The US tech giant wants to power its new data centers including the ‘region’ data center one for storage and processing opened in Cape Town by its cloud computing subsidiary, Amazon Web Services in […]
Amazon Becomes World’s Largest Corporate Purchaser of Renewable Energy
Amazon Becomes World’s Largest Corporate Purchaser of Renewable Energy, Advancing its Climate Pledge Commitment to be Net-zero Carbon by 2040 The addition of 26 new utility-scale wind and solar projects in Australia, France, Germany, Italy, South Africa, Sweden, the UK, and the U.S. bring Amazon’s total number of renewable energy projects to 127 Company’s total […]