Nike has signed a second wind contract with Avangrid Renewables.
The contract is for 86 megawatts of wind power from the Karankawa Wind Farm in Bee and San Patricio counties in Texas.
“With this agreement, Nike will source 100 percent renewable energy across our owned or operated facilities in North America,” said Hannah Jones, Nike’s chief sustainability officer and vice president, innovation accelerator. “Moreover, we will deliver on more than 50 percent of our commitment to source 100 percent renewable energy in our owned or operated facilities worldwide by the end of FY25. Investing in renewable energy is good for athletes, the planet and for business, and we will continue to drive collaboration to accelerate a low-carbon growth economy.”
Previously Austin Energy announced its own Karankawa related PPA with Avangrid Renewables for 200 megawatts. The Karankawa wind farm will produce enough energy each year to power the equivalent of more than 75,000 average households with carbon free energy.
Avangrid Renewable’s previous PPA with Nike involved three Columbia Gorge based wind farms delivering 100 percent renewable energy to its worldwide headquarters near Beaverton, Ore., and nearly all of its Oregon based facilities.
In addition to this new project, Avangrid Renewables already owns and operates the 605-megawatt South Texas Coast Complex along the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway and the 120-megawatt Barton Chapel Wind Farm in Mid-West Texas. Upon Karankawa’s COD, the company will own and operate more than a gigawatt of commercial wind power in Texas. Avangrid Renewables is finalizing its development work with the local Texas counties where Karankawa will reside and plans to start construction in the Fall of 2018.
Avangrid Renewables is a subsidiary of energy and utility business Avangrid and part of the Iberdrola Group.
