Leading Renewable Energy Producer Partners with Equinix to Reduce EmissionsThrough Wind Power
Agreement Brings Invenergy’s Corporate CustomerWind Portfolio to 225 MW
CHICAGO (Nov. 16, 2015) – Invenergy today announced that it has signed a 100 MW wind powerpurchase agreement (PPA) with Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) to provide the globalinterconnection and data center company with renewable energy to help support all of its datacenters across North America.
As a signatory to the American Business Act on Climate Pledge, Invenergy is dedicated not onlyto meeting its own sustainability goals, but to helping its corporate customers achieve their goals.Invenergy is also a founding member of Rocky Mountain Institute’s Business Renewables Center,which is a collaborative platform aimed at accelerating corporate renewable energy procurement.
Last week, Invenergy announced a 125 MW wind power purchase agreement (PPA) with OwensCorning to provide the insulation, roofing, and fiberglass manufacturer with renewable energy tosupport their ambitious corporate sustainability goals. Both of these agreements bring Invenergy’stotal corporate customer wind portfolio to 225 MW.
“We’re very pleased to help Equinix meet its long-term renewable energy and sustainability goals.The growing demand for new data storage facilities to support the explosive growth of cloudcomputing is equally matched with the demand to power-up those facilities in an environmentallyfriendly and sustainable way,” said Invenergy’s Vice President of Sales and Marketing CraigGordon. “We applaud Equinix’s commitment to meeting their power supply needs for all their datacenters from clean renewable energy sources like wind and solar.”
Earlier this year Equinix announced its commitment to 100 percent clean and renewable energyfor its entire global footprint of 105 data centers located in 33 markets. Through ongoingdevelopment of partnerships like Invenergy’s, Equinix continues to deploy innovative newtechnologies to make this commitment a reality.
The agreement with Equinix includes the sale of wind energy from the Wake Wind Energy Facilitylocated in Texas. Invenergy will provide 100 MW of capacity resulting in approximately 457,000MW hours of renewable energy annually generated in Texas and delivered into the ElectricReliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) regional electricity grid.
“As a leader in powering the digital economy, Equinix strives to operate our global business in aclean and sustainable way. Therefore we are thrilled to be working with Invenergy to bring morewind energy to the U.S. grid,” said Equinix Chief Global Operations Officer Sam Kapoor. “Workingtogether, we ensure we are one step closer to achieving our goals of using of 100 percentrenewable energy and creating long term change.”
About Invenergy
Invenergy is delivering innovation in energy. Invenergy and its affiliated companies develop, own,and operate large-scale renewable and other clean energy generation and storage facilities in theAmericas, and Europe. Invenergy's home office is located in Chicago and it has regionaldevelopment offices in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Japan, and Europe.
Invenergy and its affiliated companies have developed more than 9,100 MW of projects that arein operation, in construction, or under contract, including wind, solar, and natural gas-fueled powergeneration projects and energy storage facilities. For more information, please visitwww.invenergyllc.com.
Contact: Mary Ryan, Senior Manager, Public Relations312-582-1424 or mryan@invenergyllc.com