Amazon Australia hits 990MW renewables with nine new deals

It is the company's largest single-year renewable energy commitment in the country.

Amazon Australia has executed nine new power purchase agreements (PPAs) totalling 430 megawatts (MW) of new renewable capacity, pushing its cumulative Australian portfolio to 990MW.

The latest tranche, spread across New South Wales and Victoria, is the company's largest single-year renewable energy commitment in the country, according to a press release.

The portfolio comprises one wind farm, three utility-scale solar-plus-storage hybrids, four distributed solar-battery projects, and an additional battery installation at the existing Mokoan Solar Farm in Victoria.

Notably, eight of the nine deals incorporate battery energy storage systems, marking Amazon's first solar-battery hybrid projects in Australia and its first such deployments outside the United States.

The storage integration is designed to bolster grid reliability and smooth intermittency, a growing concern as Australia accelerates its energy transition.