Digital infrastructure company Equinix has entered a PPA with TagEnergy for 151MW of clean energy from the 1.33GW Golden Plains wind farm (GPWF) in Australia.
The PPA will assist Equinix in achieving its objective of running its business entirely on renewable energy.
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Once the wind farm begins producing electricity in 2029, its 17 International Business Exchange (IBX) data centres in Australia will be fuelled by renewable energy.
Equinix Australia managing director Guy Danskine stated: “This first PPA in Asia-Pacific is a huge milestone for Equinix.
“It underscores our long-standing commitment to actively and meaningfully achieve Equinix’s global sustainability targets to drive positive change and foster a more sustainable future for data centres.
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“Equally as important, we are helping our customers and partners in Australia meet their sustainability goals for their deployments in our IBX data centres across the country.”
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By GlobalDataTagEnergy Australia managing partner Andrew Riggs stated: “TagEnergy welcomes the signing of this significant PPA with Equinix for 20% of the clean energy generated by Golden Plains Wind Farm East.”
“This is the second PPA for stage one of our mega-project after Snowy Hydro purchased 40% of the energy and green certificates for stage one, taking total contracted volume to 60%.”
GPWF is valued at A$3bn ($2.16bn) and will be the most extensive wind farm in Australia.
Located close to Geelong, Victoria, the project will feature 215 turbines, each with 6.2MW of capacity.
Its first stage includes 122 turbines, anticipated to generate 756MW, or more than 2,000 gigawatt-hours (GWh) annually.
When fully operational, it will produce 4,000GWh of green energy annually.
Equinix is set to offtake 20% of the energy produced by GPWF’s east section.
