Amazon \u2013 the largest corporate purchaser of carbon-free energy in Australia in 2025 \u2013 continues to rapidly expand its Australian energy footprint.<\/p>\n
The online giant has signed nine new renewable energy power purchase agreements, underpinning 430MW of new carbon-free energy capacity in the National Electricity Market (NEM).<\/p>\n
The purchase agreements (PPAs) across New South Wales and Victoria, bring the company\u2019s total investment in Australia to 20 renewable energy projects, with a combined capacity of 990MW once fully operational.<\/p>\n
The newly-signed portfolio includes one wind farm, three utility-scale solar\u2013BESS hybrid projects, four distributed solar\u2013BESS hybrids, and a new battery installation at the previously announced Mokoan solar farm.<\/p>\n
The projects are expected to strengthen grid reliability while expanding the supply of clean energy.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is Amazon\u2019s largest single-year renewable energy investment in Australia and brings our total investment in renewable energy projects in Australia to $2.8 billion since 2020,\u201d said Matt O\u2019Rourke, Amazon Web Services head of infrastructure and energy policy, Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n
One PPA involves the Muswellbrook solar farm, which is located on rehabilitated or brownfield land, and includes sites redeveloped from former coal mining areas. Other projects incorporate agricultural co-use, such as livestock grazing between panels, demonstrating how renewable energy infrastructure can coexist with farming and support regional economies.<\/p>\n
Eight of the nine agreements also incorporate battery storage, representing Amazon\u2019s first solar\u2013battery hybrid projects in Australia and the company\u2019s first projects of this type outside the United States.<\/p>\n
Amazon said its investment in BESS comes at a pivotal time in Australia\u2019s energy transition, as governments and industry scale up storage solutions to help stabilise the grid, balance renewable energy supply and demand, and strengthen reliability across the NEM.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs we expand our cloud and AI infrastructure, we\u2019re powering it not only with carbon-free energy, but also battery storage that strengthens grid reliability and proves data centres can run confidently on an increasingly renewables-based system,\u201d O\u2019Rourke said<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cThese long-term, storage-backed PPAs enable new projects to proceed and help to stabilise electricity costs. These projects help accelerate Australia\u2019s clean energy transition and are part of Amazon\u2019s Climate Pledge goal to reach net-zero carbon across our operations by 2040.\u201d<\/p>\n