Akihabara News (Tokyo) — Amazon.com will buy solar power from the trading house Mitsubishi Corporation under a major corporate power purchase agreement.
Amazon will purchase the power provided by 450 solar power stations developed by West Holdings, located in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area and Tohoku region. Mitsubishi will gather the generated electricity and provide it to Amazon’s data centers, logistics centers, and offices.
The agreement will last ten years, providing a total of 22,000 kilowatts of electricity.
Other property owners will also invest in the power stations. They will be charged for installation with a promise to recoup investments following the end of the Amazon agreement.
The solar power agreement comes after a wind power agreement earlier this year that sees Mitsubishi’s Dutch unit, Eneco, providing renewable energy to Amazon’s European facilities.
By 2025, Amazon plans to make 100% of its electricity used for its corporate activities renewable, and Japanese trading houses such as Mitsubishi are increasingly focusing on the development of clean energy.
West Holdings plans to have the solar power stations start operations by 2023.
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