In February, Kaiser Permanente announced a 20-year contract to buy 153 megawatts of wind and solar power from two California farms.
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HP has signed a 12-year power purchase agreement with SunEdison for 112MW of wind power for five data centers in Texas.
The deal is in-line with HP’s strategy to meet its 2020 targets for greenhouse gas emission reductions five years ahead of schedule. The company expects its Texas wind PPA to get it to that goal by the end of this year.
“This agreement is part of our ongoing efforts to reduce our carbon footprint across our operations, within our supply chain, and in our product portfolio”, HP spokesperson Justine Gananian told FierceEnergy.
HP’s deal with SunEdison was not easy to pull off, Gabi Zedlmayer, chief progress officer of the company, said in an interview with The New York Times.
“It’s an important milestone in driving HP Living Progress as we work to create a better future for everyone through our actions and innovations”.
SunEdison Americas and EMEA executive vice-president Paul Gaynor said: “Wind generated electricity represents a good business opportunity for Texas and for HP”. The wind farm is expected to create more than 400 local construction jobs and up to 15 permanent jobs once the project is completed.
The amount of money the ICT sector in general spends on renewable energy is growing faster than other sectors’ spend, according to a recent report by the US government’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and compensating for grid power used by massive data centers is one of the major investment drivers.
HP said the deal will provide enough renewable energy to power 100 percent of its Texas data center operations.
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In February, Google announced a longterm agreement to purchase wind energy to power their Mountain View, California headquarters. The renewables developer’s yieldco unit TerraForm Power Inc (NASDAQ:TERP) will have the right to acquire the plant once it goes live.
