Polish renewable energy firm R.Power has signed a virtual Power Purchase Agreement (vPPA) with Cisco Systems, a US networking firm.

Over the term of the 15-year agreement, R.Power will supply approximately 486MWh of power to Cisco for its Polish operations. R.Power has not specified which of its renewable energy assets will supply energy to Cisco.

According to the companies, the contracts envisage the settlement of electricity prices and the sale of guarantees of origin for the energy during the period.

R.Power is a renewable developer that specializes in utility-scale solar, onshore wind farms, and battery energy storage facilities. The company has around 1.7GW of projects built or under construction across Poland, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Germany, and Romania.

R.Power has signed PPAs with several companies across the digital infrastructure space. In October, the company inked a 164MW solar PPA with Amazon, which will see it supply power from two solar projects in the Opole and West Pomeranian Voivodeships in Poland.

Before this, in February, it signed an 11-year PPA with Polish telco Play to supply 240GWh of power. The energy will be delivered from R.Powers’ solar portfolio in Wielkopolskie Voivodship, a province in Poland’s west-central region. The region’s solar assets have a combined capacity of 18MW.

Cisco has signed several PPAs over recent years in an effort to decarbonize its operations. In March, the firm signed a PPA with X-Elio to procure 100MW of solar power in Texas.

In February 2024, Cisco signed a 15-year vPPA to offtake from a 37MW solar farm in Spain developed by IGNIS. The farm is set to match all of Cisco’s European energy needs.