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Amazon signs 600 MW German offshore-wind PPA with Skyborn

Amazon + Skyborn Renewables

Primary sourcePress release only2026-06-19
Deal structureCorporate power purchase agreement / data-center renewable-energy procurement
GeographyGerman Baltic Sea / Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania + Amazon Germany cloud footprint
Infrastructure layersPower infrastructure + data centers + cloud capacity
Disclosed scale600 MW long-term PPA for carbon-free electricity from Skyborn Renewables' Gennaker offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea; Gennaker is planned at up to 976.5 MW, with construction expected after summer 2026 financial close, operations targeted toward the end of 2028, and about EUR3B of regional investment

Why it matters

The strategic read

Adds a European power-procurement receipt to Amazon's AI-era cloud buildout. The PPA covers roughly 61 percent of Gennaker, gives Skyborn revenue certainty for a near-gigawatt offshore-wind project, and ties hyperscaler power demand to a German market record at the same time AWS is expanding around Frankfurt and Hesse. It is a clean example of the Deal Room pattern where data-center growth shows up first as grid-scale renewable offtake before the server halls are named.

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What was disclosed

  1. 01

    Amazon and Skyborn Renewables announced on June 19, 2026 that they signed a 600 MW Power Purchase Agreement for carbon-free electricity from the Gennaker offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea.

  2. 02

    Skyborn said the agreement is the largest single PPA ever signed in Germany and one of the largest in Europe.

  3. 03

    Amazon's long-term commitment to buy Gennaker power gives Skyborn financial certainty to move forward with construction.

  4. 04

    Gennaker is planned to add up to 976.5 MW of new offshore-wind capacity to Germany's electricity system.

  5. 05

    The project is located about 15 kilometres north of the Fischland-Darss-Zingst peninsula in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

  6. 06

    Skyborn secured the construction permit for Gennaker in December 2025.

  7. 07

    The project is expected to feature 63 offshore wind turbines rated at 15 MW each.

  8. 08

    Construction is expected to begin after Skyborn reaches financial close in summer 2026, with operations expected toward the end of 2028.

  9. 09

    Skyborn said Gennaker represents a major EUR3B investment in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and that EEW Special Pipe Constructions will manufacture monopile foundations in Rostock.

  10. 10

    Skyborn said Amazon's German carbon-free energy portfolio now includes 12 projects with more than 1.3 GW of total capacity.

  11. 11

    DCD reported the PPA as Amazon's largest in Germany and noted AWS's Frankfurt cloud-region operations plus data-center developments outside Frankfurt in Schoneck and Maintal.

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What is known—and what is not

Primary Skyborn / Amazon announcement plus DCD near-primary coverage. Public materials disclose the buyer, seller, 600 MW contracted capacity, Gennaker project size, construction-permit status, expected financial-close and operations timing, turbine count, EUR3B investment framing, regional supply-chain participation and Amazon Germany portfolio context. Public materials do not disclose the full PPA, price, tenor, delivery profile, contract-for-difference structure if any, balancing terms, curtailment risk allocation, cancellation rights, Skyborn financing package, grid-connection terms, final FID documents, Amazon workload allocation, data-center energy-matching methodology or whether the electricity is tied to specific AWS facilities.