| 6 | Manufacturing-Journal NEWS | ACCIONA expands its collaboration with Amazon for clean energy and digital transformationACCIONA and Amazon today announced an expansion of their current Power Pur-chase Agreements (PPA), from the exist-ing 641 megawatts (MW) to 833MW. The additional 192MW will help Amazon stay on a path to powering its operations with 100% renewable energy by 2025–five years ahead of its original 2030 com-mitment–and reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2040. ACCIONA, as a group, is also expanding its use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) to accelerate its digital transformation journey. The multinational company has completed the migration of its enterprise resource planning workloads and other core business applications to the AWS cloud to increase data availability and en-hance security.ACCIONA and AWS are also innovating together to enhance data access and im-prove operational efficiencies. For exam-ple, ACCIONA Energía is building its new business to business retail solutions on AWS to increase agility, performance and to improve customer experience.“We are very glad to extend our collabo-ration with Amazon and help them stay on a path of powering its operations with 100% renewable energy by 2025,” said Joaquin Castillo, CEO of ACCIONA Energía North America. “Both companies are signatories of The Climate Pledge, a commitment to reach net-zero carbon by 2040. Thus, given our legacy and shared goals, we feel that we are a perfect part-nering match to accelerate the energy transition” added Castillo.“By expanding our collaboration with AC-CIONA, we are advancing the adoption of clean energy and accelerating the energy transition,” said Miguel Alava, Managing Director, AWS Iberia. “ACCIONA is lever-aging the reliability, scalability, and cost-efficient IT infrastructure provided by AWS to enhance operational efficiencies, unlock data-driven insights, and accel-erate pace of innovation, while helping Amazon stay on a path to powering its operations with 100% renewable energy by 2025 and reach net-zero carbon emis-sions by 2040.”ACCIONA ranks amongst the top-three operators in the world with the most signed PPAs and it has renewed its posi-tion as the world’s “greenest” electricity generation company for the eighth con-secutive year, according to the “Top 100 Green Utilities” ranking prepared annu-ally by Energy Intelligence. In addition to Amazon, the company supplies 100% renewable energy to more than 500 companies and institutions worldwide, including Apple, Asics, Bimbo, Maersk, and Novartis, among others. ACCIONA Energía owns and operates ten wind farms in the United States, to-taling more than 1GW of wind capacity, and the 64MW Nevada Solar One Con-centrated Solar Power facility. The com-pany also has 1.3GW of solar photovol-taic projects under construction in North America and owns the Cunningham BESS (190MW/380MWh) project located in Hunt County, TX. More info: www.acciona.comBASF and Yara to evaluate low-carbon blue ammonia project at U.S. Gulf CoastBASF and Yara Clean Ammonia are col-laborating on a joint study to develop and construct a world-scale low-carbon blue ammonia production facility with carbon capture in the U.S. Gulf Coast region. The companies are looking into the feasibility of a plant with a total ca-pacity of 1.2 to 1.4 million tons p.a. to serve the growing global demand for low-carbon ammonia.“Yara and BASF have successfully col-laborated in the past and we are pleased to explore a new clean ammonia project together. In line with Yara Clean Ammo-nia’s strategy, we are working systemati-cally to develop asset-backed supply to decarbonize agriculture as well as serv-ing new clean ammonia segments such as shipping fuel, power production and ammonia as a hydrogen carrier,” said Magnus Krogh Ankarstrand, President of Yara Clean Ammonia.Approximately 95 percent of the car-bon dioxide (CO2) generated from the production process is aimed to be cap-tured and permanently stored in the ground. This would allow Yara to serve its customers with clean ammonia with
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