(Photo Credit: Eneco)Microsoft Corporation signed a new wind energy agreement on Wednesday to purchase 90 MW from Eneco’s offshore wind farm Borssele III/IV in the Netherlands. Under the terms of the deal, Eneco will provide renewable energy to Microsoft’s data centers for 15 years starting in 2022.
Borssele III/IV is a 731.5 MW offshore wind project currently being developed in the Dutch part of the North Sea. Sustainable energy company and wind farm developer Eneco says that Dutch-based companies Stedin, DSM, and Royal Schiphol Group previously signed agreements to purchase power from Borssele III/IV.
The power purchase agreement (PPA) with Microsoft is the latest step in a partnership between the two companies. Last year Eneco signed a three-year deal with the enterprise-grade cloud computing platform Microsoft Azure.
This new renewable energy PPA is the 14th for the tech giant and brings their total portfolio to more than 1.5 GW, said Brian Janous, general manager of energy and sustainability at Microsoft.
“The electricity generated will help support the continued long-term growth of Microsoft cloud services delivered from the Netherlands, which is one of 54 Azure regions announced,” he said. “Our purchasing of renewable energy helps improve the sustainability of our operations and local grids.”
In March, Microsoft and EDP Renewables signed two 15-year power purchase agreements for a total of 125 megawatts of power from a wind farm in Ohio. That energy will come from Timber Road IV Wind Farm, which is scheduled to become operational this year.
Previously, in November 2017, Microsoft signed a PPA with Vattenfall to purchase all the electricity produced from a 180-megawatt wind farm planned for the Netherlands.
