The Anonymous Widower

Amazon Books Over Half Of Moray West Offshore Wind Capacity To Power UK Operations

The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on offshoreWIND.biz.

This is the sub-heading.

Amazon has signed a corporate power purchase agreement (CPPA) for a total of 473 MW of Moray West offshore wind farm’s generation capacity to help power its operations when the project becomes operational later this year.

These are the first two paragraphs.

The technology giant signed the CPPA with ENGIE, which owns the Moray West project through Ocean Winds, the 50-50 joint venture between ENGIE and EDP Renewables.

The 473 MW Amazon secured through the agreement is enough to power the equivalent of more than 650,000 UK homes annually and is more than half of the total installed capacity of the 882 MW Moray West offshore wind farm.

Note.

1. In Google Buys Scottish Offshore Wind Power, I talked about how Google had signed a Corporate Power Purchase Agreement to buy 100 MW from the Moray West offshore wind farm.
2. This would mean that there’s still 305 MW of capacity to allocate.
3. I would assume you wouldn’t sell hundred percent of capacity to give yourself leeway.

But what do you do, if your wind farm isn’t producing the 573 MW you need to satisfy the CPPAs you’ve sold? I suspect you have to buy it on the market.

If And When Do Amazon Think About Batteries?

My twenty-five-year-old self could have developed methods to calculate the answer to that question, as it would have been a simple calculation for the analogue computer, that I was using at the time; a PACE-231-R.

They really were magnificent machines.

January 30, 2024 - Posted by AnonW | Energy | Amazon, Corporate Power Purchase Agreement, ENGIE, Moray West Wind Farm, Offshore Wind Power, PACE 231-R, Wind Power