Dec 16 (Reuters) – India’s ReNew Energy Global said on Tuesday it has signed a long-term deal with Alphabet’s Google to develop a 150-megawatt solar project in the western Indian state of Rajasthan.
WHY IT’S IMPORTANT
The deal is in line with Google’s goal to operate entirely on carbon-free energy by 2030, and comes as India pushes to double its non-fossil-fuel power generation capacity to 500 gigawatts by the end of the decade.
Other U.S. tech giants such as Amazon and Microsoft are also signing large-scale renewable energy deals globally to decarbonize energy-hungry data centers.
BY THE NUMBERS
The 150 MW solar project, scheduled for commissioning in 2026, is expected to generate about 425,000 megawatt hours of clean electricity annually, which the firm said is equivalent to powering over 360,000 Indian households.
ReNew is among India’s largest independent power producers but listed in the U.S., and has a clean energy portfolio of about 18.5 GW as of early 2025.
KEY QUOTES
“…it (agreement) brings new solar capacity onto the grid in a key region, and helps address challenging portions of our value chain emissions,” Vrushali Gaud, global director, climate operations at Google said.
(Reporting by Yagnoseni Das in Bengaluru; Editing by Leroy Leo)
