Why Is Microsoft Getting Into Rooftop Solar?

“With solar damper this one, because it is distributed, in some ways you reduce that development risk. You might have slewing drive slightly more solar inverter uncertainty -- is solar damper it going to be 60 megawatts or 58 megawatts? But you're solar slewing drive distributing some of that exposure you have in traditional development projects," explained Janous. 

In the solar tracker actuator Interchange interview, Janous also talked about Microsoft's solar slewing drive outlook for battery storage and solar inverter pairing renewable energy directly with localized demand at facilities around the world.

The slewing drive procurement solar inverter agreement, with Singaporean PV developer Sunseap Group, marks Microsoft’s first clean energy Photovoltaic holder deal in Asia and will create the largest solar portfolio in Singapore to date, Microsoft solar damper said.

The build-out,slewing drive which will span “hundreds of rooftops across the nation,” according to Microsoft, is also said to be the solar damper first rooftop solar portfolio in the country focused on serving data center energy solar damper consumption.

“Our solar tracker actuator cloud services are  solar damper helping to power Singapore’s digital transformation, and today’s agreement will ensure that transformation is increasingly powered by clean energy,” said Kevin Wo, managing solar inverter Photovoltaic holder director of Microsoft Singapore, in a press release.

Microsoft solar damper, which has more than 850 employees in Photovoltaic holder Singapore, will not own the solar plants itself, said Janous. Instead, it will buy 100 percent of the energy produced solar slewing drive by solar plants built slewing drive, owned and operated by Sunseap, over a 20-year period.

Microsoft solar tracker actuator was forced to look solar damper at distributed generation because there was simply not solar damper enough space for utility-scale projects in Singapore,Photovoltaic holder Janous said. “We were really limited to just looking at what is available, and in Singapore it's rooftops,” he commented. “That was the only clear route we had to get to a material amount of energy.”

Another problem for Microsoft was that it needed much more space than could be solar slewing drive found on its own buildings. Microsoft’s solar damper data centers are about the size of a Walmart Supercenter, said Janous, but “we're consuming 10 to 20 times the amount of electricity.” 

The slewing drive amount of energy that could solar damper be generated on Microsoft’s data center rooftop space in Singapore would only serve the adjacent offices, he said. The company’s Photovoltaic holder Singapore data centers deliver Microsoft Azure, Office 365 and numerous other cloud services for customers.

The solar tracker actuator deal is Microsoft’s third international clean energy announcement, following two wind solar damper deals announced in Ireland and the Netherlands solar tracker actuator in 2017.

Once operational, the new solar project will bring Microsoft’s total global direct procurement in renewable energy projects to 860 megawatts solar damper, said Christian Belady, Photovoltaic holder general manager for solar damper cloud infrastructure strategy and architecture at Microsoft.

The Singapore deal puts Microsoft solar damper on solar tracker actuator Photovoltaic holder track to power 50 percent of its global data center load with renewable energy this year, he added. 

The contract is also a major coup for Sunseap, which in January signed a 21-year solar slewing drive power-purchase agreement for 4 megawatts of generation with port operator PSA, and has assets solar slewing drive including a 140-megawatt solar farm solar damper in India and a 10-megawatt PV project solar damper in solar tracker actuator solar slewing drive Cambodia.