Amazon unveils 100-MW wind farm project in Ohio

Amazon Web Services Inc (AWS) on Thursday announced its latest renewable energy project, saying it has contracted with EDP Renewables to construct and operate a 100-MW wind farm in Ohio.

The project to be built by the renewables arm of Portuguese utility EDP (ELI:EDP) in Ohio's Paulding County is called the Amazon Wind Farm US Central and is expected to start generating power in May 2017. It will deliver around 320,000 MWh per year into the grid supplying both current and future AWS data centres, the cloud computing unit of US e-commerce group Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) 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," said Jerry Hunter, AWS vice president of infrastructure. The company is already on track to surpass its goal of 40% renewable energy globally by the end of 2016, Hunter added.

Including the newly-announced wind farm, Amazon's renewable projects will be providing more than 1.6 million MWh of additional renewable energy into electric grids across the central and eastern US.

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