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Showing Original Post only (View all)Amazon Moves On Its Largest Renewable Project. Thank you Jeff Bezos [View all]
Amazon Moves On Its Largest Renewable Projecthttps://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Amazon-Moves-On-Its-Largest-Renewable-Project.html
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has reached a deal for its largest renewable energy project yetone that will allow it to purchase 380 MW of wind energy.
Hollandse Kust Noorda wind farm in the Netherlands currently being developed by The Crosswindwill supply the power through a project known as the Amazon-Shell HKN Offshore Wind Project.
The CrossWind is a consortium made up of oil giant Royal Dutch Shell and Mitsubishi subsidiary Eneco.
The project is still under development and is not expected to be complete until 2023. It will have a total capacity of 759 MW, generating at least 3.3 TWh per year.
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Wind farms are notoriously sporadic, producing electricity not in even measure but with peaks and valleys.
This wind farm project will include a floating solar park, short-term battery storage, turbines tuned to the network so they dont interfere with each other, and green hydrogen as a storage techniquethe combination of which the consortium hopes will provide more continuous power supply, North American WindPower reported last year
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THIS is a innovative example of how we begin to build sustainable energy sources throughout the world, while developing & applying research that bypasses the limits of any one individual clean resource.
Interesting and encouraging to see clean climate being taken to the next level.
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Bezos wasn't even mentioned in the OP and was just casually referred to in the linked article.....
George II
Feb 2021
#10
You didn't read the article did you. No where does it address what the cost was to Bezos
Budi
Feb 2021
#12
Unbelievable that a good news story about something positive being done has to be pissed on....
George II
Feb 2021
#9