Amazon has announced its plans to construct the Amazon Wind Farm Texas, a new 253MW wind farm in Scurry County, Texas.
The wind farm will generate 1,000,000MWh of energy annually, which is sufficient to power almost 90,000 homes in the US.
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The wind farm will include over 100 turbines.
Each turbines comes with a rotor diameter twice as long as the wingspan of a Boeing 747.
Slated to open in late 2017, Amazon Wind Farm Texas will be the firm's largest renewable energy project to date.
Earlier, Amazon announced wind and solar farms in Indiana, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia, which will deliver energy to the electrical grids to supply to both current and future Amazon Web Services' (AWS) cloud data centres.
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By GlobalDataThe five projects together will produce over 2.6 million MWh of renewable energy each year, enough to power more than 240,000 homes in the US.
Amazon director of sustainability Kara Hurst said: “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.
“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 Lincoln Clean Energy (LCE) to build, own and operate the new wind farm.
Amazon will acquire about 90% of the power generated by the wind farm.
LCE is a developer of wind and solar projects across the US and is a portfolio company of I Squared Capital, a global infrastructure fund.
