Amazon To Build Virginia's Largest Solar Farm

Online retailer Amazon announced plans Wednesday to buy energy from what will be Virginia’s largest solar farm in Accomack County.

 
Amazon Web Services, part of Amazon’s cloud services, will buy the energy from Community Energy Inc. as part of Amazon’s plan announced last year to use renewable energy for all its infrastructure, including its many data centers in Northern Virginia.
 
The planned 80-megawatt solar farm, to be completed by October 2016, represents more than five times of all the solar energy currently installed in the state, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association. Virginia ranks 30th in the country in solar energy capacity, according to the association.