Google has signed an offshore wind energy deal with energy company ENGIE that will allow the tech giant’s UK operations to operate at or near 90% carbon-free energy on an hourly basis in 2025, up from a projected 67%.

The long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) is for 100MW of carbon-free energy from the Moray West offshore wind farm in Scotland. When the PPA goes live in 2025, it will make the UK one of six Google Cloud regions – including Finland, Iowa, Montreal, Spain and Toronto – to operate at or near 90% carbon-free energy on an hourly basis. 

Google has purchased renewable energy since 2010, and in 2017 became one of the first major companies to match 100% of its annual electricity use with renewable energy purchases. It has continued to do so for five consecutive years. However, while matching annual energy consumption with renewable energy purchases helps reduce emissions, there are still regions and times of day where […]