Amazon has insisted it is seeking to rapidly cut fossil fuel use after a backlash from the firm’s own staff.
The online retailer unveiled two new solar projects in the US, as well as a wind project in Scotland – its first in the UK – that will help it hit a target for 80pc of its energy coming from renewable energy sources by 2024, and 100pc by 2030.
It is the company’s latest effort to head off criticism over its green credentials from workers who believe it is not moving fast enough to cut oil and gas consumption.
Last month almost 1,800 employees said they would stage a walkout “to ensure our company is leading on climate, not following”. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2019/10/23/amazon-dismisses-climate-criticism-renewable-energy-projects/
The web retail giant said a 50MW PPA with a wind project in on the Kintyre Peninsula in Scotland will be “the largest corporate wind power deal in the UK” delivering 168GWh annually when it starts producing power in 2021. Further details of the project, to be called the Amazon Wind Farm, were not disclosed.
Corporate deals with the likes of Amazon are seen as a big prize for UK onshore wind, which is locked out of the British government’s contract-for-difference renewables support mechanism.
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