CRM software major Salesforce is doubling its renewable energy investments by signing a second energy agreement — for 24 megawatts (MW) of a new wind farm in Texas.
The electricity generated under the 12-year virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) is expected to be 102,000 megawatt hours annually. Earlier, Salesforce announced its first VPPA for 40 MW of a new wind farm in West Virginia that is expected to generate 125,000 megawatt hours of wind energy annually.
Salesforce targets
# Achieve net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050
# Power 100 percent of global operations with renewable energy
# Pursue LEED certification for its largest office spaces and other green building initiatives
The two agreements are expected to generate more electricity than Salesforce’s global electricity use in its fiscal year 2015. Both the Texas and the West Virginia wind farms are scheduled to be operational in December 2016.
Salesforce aims to power 100 percent of its global operations with renewable energy.
“This agreement, coupled with the announcement we made just a few weeks ago, represents the biggest step in our company’s history towards meeting our goal to be powered 100 percent by renewable energy,” said Mark Hawkins, CFO of Salesforce.
Salesforce in a statement says its core platform is 98 percent more carbon efficient on average than on-premises software. By moving to the cloud, Salesforce customers avoided emitting more than one million tons of carbon in fiscal year 2015.