The Richmond-based utility is acquiring four 20-megawatt projects from Virginia Solar LLC as well as a 100-megawatt development from Community Energy Solar in Southampton County. Dominion Energy, a Dominion subsidiary, will supply electricity under the terms of long-term power purchase agreements with AWS, Amazon’s cloud computing enterprise.
AWS, a major operator of data centers in Northern Virginia, has announced a long-term goal of achieving 100% renewable energy for its global infrastructure, with a milestone of 50% by the end of 2017.
“We are nowhere near done,” said Peter DeSantis, AWS vice president-infrastructure, said in a press release. “We will continue to make progress toward 100 percent and have many exciting initiatives planned.”