Amazon to arrange three photo voltaic farms in Rajasthan

Amazon on Wednesday introduced it’ll arrange three photo voltaic farms in Rajasthan with a mixed capability of 420 megawatt (MW). This would be the first time that the e-commerce main is establishing a photo voltaic farm in India. These would come with a 210-MW venture to be developed by ReNew Power, a 100-MW venture to be developed by Amp Energy India, and a 110-MW venture to be developed by Brookfield Renewable Partners, for which energy buy agreements (PPAs) have been signed, it mentioned in an announcement.

Further, Amazon will arrange 23 new photo voltaic rooftop tasks — with a capability to generate an extra 4.09 MW of energy — throughout 14 cities in India. This would improve its whole variety of photo voltaic rooftop tasks within the nation to 41 with 19.7 MW of renewable vitality capability.

“Amazon is committed to helping scale corporate renewable energy procurement options in the country, bringing associated green jobs and investments to more parts of India,” mentioned Abhinav Singh, director, buyer fulfilment, provide chain and Amazon Transportation Services, at Amazon India. Combined, these farms have the capability to generate 1.07 million MW hours of renewable vitality yearly, sufficient to energy over 360,000 average-sized households in New Delhi a 12 months.  FE