Featured in Purchasing power – 04-2025

Buying big

For the past five consecutive years, US tech and retail giant Amazon has been the world’s largest procurer of renewable energy, investing in projects and signing power purchase agreements (PPAs) all over the world. pv magazine spoke with representatives of the company about its ambitious energy plans.

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Mark Hutchins

01 Apr 2025

Bikaner Solar Farm, a 110 MW project in Rajasthan, India, was developed under a partnership between Amazon and Brookfield Renewable Partners. | Photo: Brookfield Renewable

As PPAs have proliferated in markets around the world in recent years, Amazon has emerged as the largest buyer across several regions, and by some margin. In 2023, analyst BloombergNEF tracked 8.8 GW of renewable energy generation capacity contracted by the US retail giant, spread over 74 PPAs in 16 different regions. That was more …

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