Amazon stakes claim as 'world's largest' corporate clean power buyer with 3.4GW blitz

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Tech giant strikes mammoth package of wind and solar offtake deals including from 129MW South Lanarkshire wind project under development in Scotland

Amazon has today claimed the title of world's largest corporate buyer of renewable electricity, having more than doubled its existing contracted clean power capacity with the addition of 26 new wind and...

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