Tech giant Amazon has announced nine new renewable energy power purchase agreements (PPAs) in Australia totalling 430MW, with eight projects featuring solar generation co-located with battery energy storage systems (BESS).
This marks the company’s largest single-year investment in the country and will help spearhead the expansion of its data centre AI. This also represents the first solar-plus-storage PPAs Amazon has signed in Australia and the first outside the US.
Amazon disclosed that the portfolio comprises one wind farm, three utility-scale solar-plus-storage sites, four distributed solar-plus-storage projects, and a new battery energy storage installation to be added to the Mokoan solar PV power plant.
The projects span New South Wales and Victoria, with developers including OX2, X-ELIO, Anza, TagEnergy and European Energy. According to BloombergNEF data, Amazon was the largest corporate purchaser of carbon-free energy in Australia for 2025 and remains among the leading purchasers globally.
The investment directly supports Amazon’s AU$20 billion (US$14.34 billion) commitment to expand data centre infrastructure across Australia by 2029, announced alongside Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in June 2025.
That expansion aims to strengthen Australia’s cloud computing and AI capabilities, with the renewable energy deals providing the carbon-free power needed to meet both operational demands and Amazon’s goal of reaching net zero carbon across its operations by 2040 under The Climate Pledge.
