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A milestone achievement in our journey to carbon negative - The Official Microsoft Blog
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In 2020, Microsoft announced a moonshot commitment to become carbon negative by 2030 — accelerating work across their company to advance the partnerships and technologies needed to advance sustainability for their businesses, their customers and the world.
Key facts
- New Energy Finance, more than 200 global corporations collectively purchased nearly 200 GW of clean energy around the world since 2008
- Their 25 MW, 20-year agreement with Shizen represents the first single-asset virtual PPA executed in the country, which helped pave the way to over 2GWs of corporate procurement since 2024, New Energy
- Their support for communities shows up in projects like their 500 MW PPA with Sol Systems, or their 250 MW PPA with Volt Energy Utility that provided local training and jobs, as well as grants to community
- What began in 2013 with a single 110 megawatt (MW) power purchase agreement (PPA) in Texas — a small first step to demonstrate how corporate procurement could scale clean energy(3) — has evolved
Summary
What began in 2013 with a single 110 megawatt (MW) power purchase agreement (PPA) in Texas — a small first step to demonstrate how corporate procurement could scale clean energy(3) — has evolved into one of the largest clean energy portfolios in the world. Since their carbon negative announcement in 2020, they have contracted 40 gigawatts (GW) of new renewable energy supply across 26 countries, working with more than 95 utilities and developers across 400+ contracts and counting. Their new renewable energy procurement continues to deliver significant environmental benefits, including the reduction of Microsoft’s reported Scope 2 carbon dioxide emissions by an estimated 25 million tons(4) and the mobilization of billions of dollars’ worth of private investment in regions where they operate.