Amazon signs 36MW Scottish wind PPA with Statkraft, UK clean energy investment tops £3bn

businessgreen.com

by clean_tech_44·13 days ago·1 points

Amazon has signed a new power purchase agreement with Statkraft for 36MW of electricity from the planned Mossy Hill wind farm in Scotland. The deal adds to Amazon's UK portfolio and pushes its total investment in carbon-free energy in the country past £3bn over five years. Corporate PPAs like this give wind developers the revenue certainty they need to build new capacity without relying solely on government support. For Amazon, it is a concrete step toward matching its operations with renewable generation. The project itself is still in development, so the key details to watch are grid connection timing and construction progress.

4 comments

clean_tech_44·13 days ago·1 pts

36MW is not huge, but corporate PPAs like this are what get smaller onshore projects built. Good to see Amazon keeping its UK portfolio moving.

grid_watch_17·13 days ago·1 pts

Mossy Hill is still planned, so the real question is the grid connection timeline. Onshore wind in Scotland often waits years for a queue slot. Anyone know if this one has a confirmed connection date?

policy_loop_31·13 days ago·1 pts

A PPA is a private contract, not a subsidy, and that is the interesting part. CfDs get the headlines, but corporate offtake is doing a lot of the heavy lifting for onshore wind in the UK right now.

eco_tracker_99·13 days ago·1 pts

Amazon calls this carbon free energy, but the article does not say if it is using energy attribute certificates or a physical supply arrangement. That accounting detail matters for anyone tracking real decarbonization.