Amazon Australia has announced nine new renewable energy power purchase agreements (PPAs) across NSW and Victoria, adding 430 megawatts (MW) of new carbon-free energy capacity to the national electricity market.

This brings the company’s total investment in the country to 20 renewable energy projects, with a combined capacity of 990MW once fully operational, enough to power the equivalent of more than half a million Australian households annually.

The newly signed portfolio includes one wind farm, three utility-scale solar and battery energy storage system (BESS) hybrid projects, four distributed solar-BESS hybrids, and a new battery installation at the previously announced Mokoan Solar Farm.

From 2020 to 2025, Amazon invested an estimated $2.8 billion in renewable energy projects in Australia with BloombergNEF recognising Amazon as the largest corporate purchaser of carbon-free energy in Australia in 2025.

One solar farm is located on rehabilitated or brownfield land, including sites redeveloped from former coal mining areas, contributing to environmental restoration outcomes. Others incorporate agricultural co-use, such as livestock grazing between panels, demonstrating that renewable energy infrastructure can coexist with farming and support regional economies.

Eight of the nine deals also incorporate battery storage, representing Amazon’s first solar-battery hybrid projects in Australia, and a first for this type of project for the company outside of the US.

Amazon says its investment in BESS comes at a pivotal moment in Australia’s energy transition, as both governments and industry are scaling storage solutions to stabilise the grid, balance renewable energy supply and demand in real time, and strengthen reliability across the national electricity market.

Matt O’Rourke, AWS Head of Infrastructure and Energy Policy, Australia and New Zealand, says Amazon is proud to be helping accelerate the transition to a more sustainable energy future.

“This is Amazon’s largest single-year renewable energy investment in Australia and brings our total investment in renewable energy projects in Australia to $2.8 billion since 2020,” he says.  

“As we expand our cloud and AI infrastructure, we’re powering it not only with carbon-free energy, but also battery storage that strengthens grid reliability and proves data centres can run confidently on an increasingly renewables-based system.

“These long-term, storage-backed PPAs enable new projects to proceed and help to stabilise electricity costs. These projects help accelerate Australia’s clean energy transition and are part of Amazon’s Climate Pledge goal to reach net-zero carbon across our operations by 2040.”