EDP, through EDP Renewables (EDPR) APAC, has signed a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Amazon.
The long-term contract signed with Amazon is linked to EDP’s 44 megawatt-peak (MWp) ground-mounted utility-scale solar farm located in Fukushima. The solar farm will be structured with 63,000 solar panels and is expected to generate over 48 gigwatt-hours (GWh) of energy annually, offsetting more than 20,500 metric tonnes of carbon emissions, says EDP on Jan 29.
The solar farm is expected to be operational by 3Q2025.
Filipa Ricciardi, executive director at EDP Renewables APAC, says: “Major technology companies like Amazon are driving significant demand for renewable energy to support essential digital services and its operations. Contracting with Amazon allows us to continue to support them on their path towards decarbonisation, bringing us all closer to achieving our climate targets.”
EDPR APAC was formerly known as Sunseap before it was acquired by the Spanish renewable energy firm in 2022.
This marks the second PPA between EDP and Amazon in the APAC region. In March 2021, Sunseap and Amazon signed a PPA in Singapore to export 62MWp from rooftop solar panels to the e-commerce giant.
In August 2024, Microsoft announced it will purchase 100% of the solar energy exported to the Singapore grid from EDPR’s SolarNova 8 project. The project consists of installing up to 200MWp of solar capacity via panels atop 1,075 public housing buildings and 101 government-owned buildings in Singapore.
EDPR and Microsoft also signed a 20-year offtake agreement. This is the second agreement signed between both companies in Singapore; Microsoft announced in 2018 an agreement to purchase 100% of a similar 60MWp project by Sunseap Group, which marked Microsoft’s first clean energy deal in Asia.
EDP says its portfolio of onshore and offshore wind and solar assets, as well as hydro assets, total over 29GW of installed capacity. In APAC, EDP has more than 1.6GWp of committed renewables capacity as of December 2024.
