Amazon Australia has signed nine new renewable energy power purchase agreements (PPAs) across New South Wales and Victoria.
The newly signed portfolio includes one wind farm, three utility-scale solar and battery energy storage system (BESS) hybrid projects, four distributed solar-BESS hybrids, and a new battery installation at the previously announced Mokoan Solar Farm, strengthening grid reliability while expanding the supply of clean energy.
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Eight of the nine deals also incorporate battery storage, representing Amazon’s first solar-battery hybrid projects in Australia, and a first for this type of project for the company outside of the United States.
Amazon’s investment in BESS comes at a pivotal moment in Australia’s energy transition, as both governments and industry are scaling storage solutions to stabilise the grid, balance renewable energy supply and demand in real time, and strengthen reliability across the National Electricity Market, adding brand-new sources of carbon-free energy to the power grid that everyone uses—the same grid that powers homes, hospitals, and schools.
Amazon Web Services head of infrastructure and energy policy ANZ Matt O’Rourke said, “This is Amazon’s 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. We’re proud to be helping accelerate the transition to a more sustainable energy future.
“As we expand our cloud and AI infrastructure, we’re 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.”
“These long-term, storage-backed PPAs enable new projects to proceed and help to stabilise electricity costs. These projects help accelerate Australia’s clean energy transition and are part of Amazon’s Climate Pledge goal to reach net-zero carbon across our operations by 2040.”
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From 2020 to 2025, Amazon invested an estimated $2.8 billion in renewable energy projects in Australia. This brings the company’s total investment in the country to 20 renewable energy projects, with a combined capacity of 990MW once fully operational—enough to power the equivalent of more than half a million Australian households annually.
