Amazon, an online retailer and cloud computing provider, announced that the addition of its new 198 megawatt wind farm project in Osmanabad, Maharashtra, has increased the country's renewable energy capacity to over 1.1 gigawatts. With this, the business currently has fifty solar and wind projects throughout India.
Recently announced as "a new 198 megawatt (MW) wind farm in Osmanabad, Maharashtra, bringing the company to 50 wind and solar projects across India and surpassing 1.1 gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy capacity". Amazon claimed to be the biggest corporate purchaser of renewable energy in India in addition to being the biggest purchaser of renewable energy worldwide, a title it has held since 2020.
Amazon's wind and solar projects will let us run all of our operations on renewable energy exclusively by 2025, creating jobs and boosting the economies of towns in India. Vice President of Operations at Amazon India, Abhinav Singh, stated in a statement, "We're eager to continue contributing to India's economic and environmental goals as part of Amazon's commitment to become a more sustainable business". According to Amazon, the company's wind and solar farms have contributed to the creation of direct and indirect investments worth an estimated USD 349 million (about Rs 2,885 crore) for Indian communities between 2014 and 2022.
"They have also contributed approximately USD 87 million (about Rs 719 crore) to the country's total GDP, and supported more than 20,600 local full-time equivalent jobs in 2022 alone, according to a new economic model developed by Amazon", the statement said.
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