Pattern Energy to supply power from Indiana wind farm for Amazon datacentres

Pattern Energy has signed an agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company, to sell power generated from the 150MW Fowler Ridge 4 wind farm in Indiana, US.

According to a 13-year power purchase agreement, Amazon will be receiving clean energy from the facility, the construction for which is expected to start in April 2015.

Located in Benton County in the US, the project has been renamed Amazon Web Services Wind Farm (Fowler Ridge),
Commercial operation for the project is likely to initiate by late 2015 or early 2016.

Once operational, the facility is expected to generate about 500,000 MWh of energy annually which will be enough to power 46,000 US households.

Amazon will be using the power generated from the farm to power both its existing and future AWS Cloud datacentres.

Pattern Development presently owns 100% of the project, 120MW from which is expected to be acquired by Pattern Energy in the future.

The acquisition will increase Pattern Energy’s right of first offer ROFO list to eight projects with 830MW of total owned capacity.

Pattern Energy president and CEO Mike Garland said: "Pattern Energy is providing wind power to America’s top corporations and looks forward to working with Amazon Web Services upon the acquisition of this exciting new project, which has been added to our growing ROFO list.

"In the past 18 months we have acquired four projects from Pattern Development with an aggregate owned capacity of 557 MW and have also added an additional five projects, including Amazon Web Services Wind Farm (Fowler Ridge), to the ROFO list with an aggregate capacity of 553 MW."