Amazon Has EV Charging Operators in Its Rear-View Mirror
Charging companies are poised to rank among the world’s top consumers of electricity.
A Tesla Supercharger station in Thurrock, UK.
Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/BloombergAmazon is the largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy globally, with almost 26 gigawatts of projects in its portfolio that it expects to eventually be capable of producing 56,881 gigawatt-hours of green electrons a year.
In the next 10 years or so, Amazon will have plenty of competition for the renewable energy crown. Google and Meta may be in the mix, as will electric-vehicle charging operators — some of which aren’t exactly household names.