{"id":7964,"date":"2015-01-21T14:09:53","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T20:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=7964"},"modified":"2015-01-21T09:11:43","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T15:11:43","slug":"can-you-power-the-cloud-with-clean-energy-amazon-says-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/21\/can-you-power-the-cloud-with-clean-energy-amazon-says-yes\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you power the cloud with clean energy? Amazon says yes."},"content":{"rendered":"

A Press Release from Amazon.<\/a><\/p>\n

Amazon Web Services to Use Wind Farm Power to Supply its Datacenters with Approximately 500,000 MWh of Power Annually<\/strong><\/p>\n

SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jan. 20, 2015– (NASDAQ:AMZN) \u2014 Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company, today announced that it has teamed with Pattern Energy Group LP (Pattern Development) to support the construction and operation of a 150 megawatt (MW) wind farm in Benton County, Indiana, called the Amazon Web Services Wind Farm (Fowler Ridge). This new wind farm is expected to start generating approximately 500,000 megawatt hours (MWh) of wind power annually as early as January 2016 \u2013 or the equivalent of that used by approximately 46,000 US homes1 in a year. The energy generated by Amazon Web Services Wind Farm (Fowler Ridge) will be used to help power both current and future AWS Cloud datacenters. For more information go to http:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/about-aws\/sustainable-energy\/.<\/p>\n

In November 2014, AWS shared its long-term commitment to achieve 100 percent renewable energy usage for the global AWS infrastructure footprint. The Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for AWS\u2019s new Wind Farm is an important step toward that goal. AWS introduced its first carbon-neutral region \u2013 US West (Oregon) \u2013 in 2011. Today, AWS offers customers three AWS Regions that are carbon-neutral \u2013 US West (Oregon), EU (Frankfurt), and AWS GovCloud (US).<\/p>\n

\u201cAmazon Web Services Wind Farm (Fowler Ridge) will bring a new source of clean energy to the electric grid where we currently operate a large number of datacenters and have ongoing expansion plans to support our growing customer base,\u201d said Jerry Hunter, Vice President of Infrastructure at Amazon Web Services. \u201cThis PPA helps to increase the renewable energy used to power our infrastructure in the US and is one of many sustainability activities and renewable energy projects for powering our datacenters that we currently have in the works.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pattern Development is a leader in developing renewable energy and transmission assets with a long history in wind energy. Pattern Development\u2019s CEO, Mike Garland said, \u201cWe are excited to be working with Amazon Web Services and we commend the Company for its commitment to sustainability and its continued pioneering and leadership in cloud computing. We look forward to working with AWS as it progresses towards its goal of using 100 percent renewable energy.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Press Release from Amazon. Amazon Web Services to Use Wind Farm Power to Supply its Datacenters with Approximately 500,000 MWh of Power Annually SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jan. 20, 2015– (NASDAQ:AMZN) \u2014 Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company, today announced that it has teamed with Pattern Energy Group LP (Pattern Development) to support the construction … Continue reading Can you power the cloud with clean energy? Amazon says yes.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[738,715,737,5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-24s","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7965,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7964\/revisions\/7965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}