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Ørsted and Amazon ink more power purchase agreements

By: Tom Russell 01/12/2021 Ørsted

General Windfarms

Amazon and Ørsted have announced the signing of two new corporate power purchase agreements, totalling 116 MW of capacity across onshore and offshore wind.

Amazon and Ørsted have also agreed that Amazon will offtake the output of the 16 MW Ballykeel Onshore Wind Farm in Northern Ireland, which Ørsted expects to take final investment decision on later this year.

Furthermore, Amazon will offtake the output of 100 MW from Ørsted's 900 MW Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind farm in Germany. This CPPA is in addition to the 250 MW CPPA signed in December 2020, meaning that Amazon will offtake a total of 350 MW from Borkum Riffgrund 3, once the offshore wind farm enters commercial operation, expected in 2025.

Rasmus Errboe, Head of Region, Continental Europe at Ørsted, said: “We’re very pleased to once again partner with Amazon on securing additional renewable energy for the green transformation. The CPPAs on Borkum Riffgrund 3 and Ballykeel once again show Ørsted’s position as a green energy major that can help large corporations deliver on their climate ambitions across geographies and technologies.”

“We’re moving quickly on our path to power operations with 100 % renewable energy by 2025 – five years earlier than our original target. The new agreements with Ørsted are an important step on this journey,” said Ralf Kleber, Country Manager of Amazon in Germany.

The announcement follows news earlier this week that Ørsted had signed a 12-year corporate power purchase agreement with Google, under which Google will offtake 50 MW of the Borkum Riffgrund 3 project.

Borkum Riffgrund 3 will be Ørsted's largest offshore wind farm in Germany to date. With an export capacity of 900 megawatts, it will also be the largest offshore wind farm in Germany. It will feature 83 Siemens turbines with a nominal output of 11 MW and a rotor diameter of 200 metres. It will cover an area of around 75 km², around 72 km off the Lower Saxony coast and 53 kilometres off the island of Borkum. Ørsted sold a 50% stake in the project to investor Glennmont Partners. The construction of Borkum Riffgrund 3 is to be implemented in parallel with the Gode Wind 3 project and will go into full commercial operation in 2025.

With these latest agreements with Amazon and Google, Ørsted has over the past two years signed offshore wind CPPAs for an accumulated capacity of 1,764 MW across its global portfolio. Within its Onshore business, Ørsted has signed CPPAs for a total capacity of 1,350 MW since May 2020. Across technologies, Ørsted and Amazon have signed three CPPAs. Besides the updated CPPA on Borkum Riffgrund 3 and the CPPA on Ballykeel, Amazon is also offtaking the full capacity of the 253 MW Amazon Onshore Wind Farm Texas in Scurry County, Texas.

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