Amazon has announced that its two Australian-based solar farms are now up and running and delivering clean energy to the Australian grid.
The solar farms, which are based in regional New South Wales -- one in Gunnedah and the other in Suntop -- are expected to generate 392,000 MWh of renewable energy each year, which according to Amazon is equivalent to the annual usage of 63,000 Australian homes.
The company is also building a wind farm in the regional Victorian town of Hawkesdale. Amazon said once it is operational, the wind farm will boost the company's combined yearly renewable energy generation to 717,000 MWh -- or enough to power 115,000 Australian homes.
Does the path to sustainable energy lead through companies like Amazon supplying their own green sources?
(Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 21 2022, @05:21AM (3 children)
Indications are that a Teal-Labor minority government would re-introduce some sort of carbon reduction incentives as part of its net zero by 2050 pledge.
Amazon, as a global citizen abiding by the local laws in which in operates, is just getting ahead of whomever is Prime Minister this evening.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 21 2022, @11:44AM (2 children)
No such luck this evening, with a hang Parliament.
Not terrible unlucky tho, the L/NP got the boot - too high dispersion of interests to form a coalition with the teals (Nats won't abide progressives and moderate libs won't abide Pauline and Palmer).
Bah-bye Scotty from marketing, good riddance ye potato head.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 21 2022, @10:29PM (1 child)
Potato Head is still there and is likely to be leader of the Opposition within a few days. This election will result in a massive shift to the right for the "Liberal" party. We'll all be f*cked next time they get elected.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by deimtee on Sunday May 22 2022, @07:19AM
No idea why they keep potato-head, but I don't think they'll win as long as they do. Too many people don't like him. He just comes across as a thick thug.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 21 2022, @05:30AM (5 children)
I have no interest in this "story."
Just commenting to applaud phoenix stepping up piling on subs.
Too bad, they are mostly crap, but I ain't complaing. :)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 21 2022, @06:30AM (3 children)
Peter robbing Paul - Amazon creating a conscience project to "offset" all the nonsense they are actually up to.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Saturday May 21 2022, @08:10AM (2 children)
Amazon doesn't have a conscience, like all psychopatic corporation [accaglobal.com]. Nor does it particularly need to look like it does, since it's now larger than some countries.
The reality is much simpler: if they do anything - including this solar thing - it's because there's money in it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 21 2022, @11:50AM (1 child)
Not for long. I predict very cheap electricity in Ozland in 10 years. Photopanels are already cheap and battery storage drops down fast nowadays.
There'll be a glut of renewables pumped as surplus in the grid by private households.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 21 2022, @02:51PM
hopefully the amazon warehouse is serviced by electrified railway.
notice how pretty much all countries with PLENTY of sunshine have no, limited or very bad railway electrification or no rails at all?
can't have bulk stuff being pushed around by the sun with minimal resistance and thus close to free without paying the piper with a piece of flesh, eh? ^_^
and no, diesel making electricity on-board the train is not a electric train ...
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday May 21 2022, @05:29PM
I glean them from the Soylent RSS [sylnt.us] news scraper. Some days are better than others.
I didn't realize they were having so much trouble keeping the story queue full until janrinok called for help. Please consider pitching in with story submissions or as an editor.
Story submissions are easy if you don't have a lot of time. I use a method that takes about 2-3 minutes per story: 1) Copy & paste the article title 2) Type in the name of the article source as a link to the article 4) copy & paste a couple paragraphs from the article that summarize the main idea 5) Throw in an ice-breaker sentence or conversation starter if you want. Done!
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 23 2022, @03:19PM
This is Amazon's core business model. They take a commodity that they consume, and produce it themselves, to supply their own needs. Then, they optimize production of that commodity, to reduce their costs. Then, start selling that commodity to others, to grow their business.
Data centers
Warehouses
Shipping