Amazon has secured two solar Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) in Japan.

In its first deal, Amazon signed a 20-year PPA with EDP Renewables APAC, a subsidiary of EDP-Energias de Portugal, to buy power from a 44MW solar farm in Fukushima. The project includes 63,000 solar panels and is expected to generate 48GWh of electricity per year. EDP estimates it will be operational by Q3 2025.

“Major technology companies like Amazon are driving significant demand for renewable energy to support essential digital services and its operations. Contracting with Amazon allows us to continue to support them on their path towards decarbonization, bringing us all closer to achieving our climate targets,” said Filipa Ricciardi, executive director at EDP Renewables APAC.

This is Amazon's second PPA with EDP in the APAC region. The first, signed in 2021, involved a 62MW solar project in Singapore.

In Ube, in southern Japan, Amazon signed another 20-year PPA with X-Elio for the full capacity of the 14MW Funaki solar plant. Construction began in 2024, and the plant is expected to start operations by mid-2025, generating 18,686MWh of energy annually.

“This agreement exemplifies how growing energy demand in sectors like cloud computing and digitalization can align with the global renewable transition,” said Mirko Molinari, X-Elio’s CCO.

X-Elio, owned by Brookfield, focuses on renewable energy development and has developed projects in Japan, Spain, and the US. The company has signed a number of PPAs with large data center firms. Last September, it signed a PPA with Google that will see the search giant offtake from X-Elio’s 128MW Bell Solar PV Plant.

Amazon has signed multiple PPAs in Japan. According to Bloomberg New Energy Finance, Amazon is the country’s largest corporate buyer of renewable energy, supporting more than 20 solar projects.

Last August, the firm signed a PPA with Eneos Renewable Energy for energy from a 9.5MW solar project in Kudamatsu City, Yamaguchi, Japan. Eneos is expected to start operations at the site by November 2025.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) entered the Japanese market in 2009. In 2011, it launched its first cloud region in Tokyo, and in 2021, it launched its second in Osaka.

Last January, it announced plans to invest 2.26 trillion yen ($15.24 billion) in expanding its cloud computing infrastructure in Japan by 2027.