U.S., Dec. 5 -- Tech giant Amazon, in aid of its pledge to use 80% renewable energy across its operations by 2024 and 100% by 2030, has unveiled plans for three new renewable energy projects to be based in the US and Spain.
The Spanish project, its first in the country, will be based southeast of Sevilla with a capacity of 149MW of solar energy.
In the US, the remaining two projects announced will be situated in Illinois and Northern Virginia, with a total capacity of 180MW expected to produce 400,000MWh of renewable energy each year. While the former project is Amazon's first in Illinois, its Virginia project will in fact be its ninth in the state.
Amazon's portfolio of renewable energy amounts to 1,900MW in worldwide capacity, with a c...