Five Walmart suppliers joined forces to buy renewable energy from a Kansas wind farm, as part of the retailer’s plan to reduce 1 billion metric tons worth of emissions across its supply chain by 2030.
The 12-year power purchase agreement is the first under Walmart and Schneider Electric’s renewable energy acceleration for suppliers, officially known as Gigaton PPA.
The transaction covers an annual purchase of about 250,000 megawatt-hours of power from the Ørsted Sunflower Wind Farm scheduling to come online this year in Marion County, Kansas. The buyers include Amy’s Kitchen, Great Lakes Cheese, Levi Strauss & Co., The J.M. Smucker Co. and Valvoline. Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.