SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 20, 2015--
(NASDAQ:AMZN) — Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company,
today announced that it has teamed with Pattern Energy Group LP (Pattern
Development) to support the construction and operation of a 150 megawatt
(MW) wind farm in Benton County, Indiana, called the Amazon Web Services
Wind Farm (Fowler Ridge). This new wind farm is expected to start
generating approximately 500,000 megawatt hours (MWh) of wind power
annually as early as January 2016 – or the equivalent of that used by
approximately 46,000 US homes1 in a year. The energy
generated by Amazon Web Services Wind Farm (Fowler Ridge) will be used
to help power both current and future AWS Cloud datacenters. For more
information go to http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/sustainable-energy/.
In November 2014, AWS shared its long-term commitment to achieve 100
percent renewable energy usage for the global AWS infrastructure
footprint. The Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for AWS’s new Wind Farm is
an important step toward that goal. AWS introduced its first
carbon-neutral region – US West (Oregon) – in 2011. Today, AWS offers
customers three AWS Regions that are carbon-neutral – US West (Oregon),
EU (Frankfurt), and AWS GovCloud (US).
“Amazon Web Services Wind Farm (Fowler Ridge) will bring a new source of
clean energy to the electric grid where we currently operate a large
number of datacenters and have ongoing expansion plans to support our
growing customer base,” said Jerry Hunter, Vice President of
Infrastructure at Amazon Web Services. “This PPA helps to increase the
renewable energy used to power our infrastructure in the US and is one
of many sustainability activities and renewable energy projects for
powering our datacenters that we currently have in the works.”
Pattern Development is a leader in developing renewable energy and
transmission assets with a long history in wind energy. Pattern
Development’s CEO, Mike Garland said, “We are excited to be working with
Amazon Web Services and we commend the Company for its commitment to
sustainability and its continued pioneering and leadership in cloud
computing. We look forward to working with AWS as it progresses towards
its goal of using 100 percent renewable energy.”
About Amazon Web Services
Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services offers a robust, fully featured
technology infrastructure platform in the cloud comprised of a broad set
of compute, storage, database, analytics, application, and deployment
services from datacenter locations in the U.S., Australia, Brazil,
China, Germany, Ireland, Japan, and Singapore. More than a million
customers, including fast-growing startups, large enterprises, and
government agencies across 190 countries, rely on AWS services to
innovate quickly, lower IT costs and scale applications globally. To
learn more about AWS, visit http://aws.amazon.com.
About Amazon
Amazon.com opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995. The company is
guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor
focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and
long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized
recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct
Publishing, Kindle, Fire phone, Fire tablets, and Fire TV are some of
the products and services pioneered by Amazon.
1 In 2012, the average annual electricity consumption for a
U.S. residential utility customer was 10,837 kWh, an average of 903
kilowatthours (kWh) per month. http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=97&t=3
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