Google has signed a 250-megawatt power-purchase agreement with Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) to purchase renewable energy generated by the Zeevonk project to power its Dutch operations in the Netherlands for 15 years.
Zeevonk is a joint venture between Vattenfall and CIP that blends offshore wind, solar energy and green hydrogen at scale. It consists of a 2-gigawatt offshore wind farm and a 50-megawatt floating offshore solar farm located 62 kilometers (39 miles) off the Dutch coast. The project is expected to be operational in 2029.
A significant portion of the electricity generated by the offshore wind and solar farm will be converted into green hydrogen at a large-scale electrolyzer plant at the port of Rotterdam.
“Google partnered with CIP ahead of the government tender for this subsidy-free, gigawatt-scale project,” said Adam Elman, director of sustainability EMEA at Google. “The partnership with CIP will bring new carbon-free energy to the
