Taipei, April 22 (CNA) U.S.-based tech giant Google Inc. has signed an agreement with Denmark’s Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) to buy electricity from CIP’s wind farm off the coast of Taichung, CIP said Tuesday.
In a statement, CIP said through its fifth flagship fund — Copenhagen Infrastructure V (CI V) — it and Google signed the Corporate Power Purchase Agreement (CPPA) in March to buy power from the Danish dedicated clean energy investment fund manager’s Fengmiao I offshore wind project.
It is the first agreement Google has made to buy offshore energy in Taiwan as well as in the Asian Pacific region, CIP said.
Located about 35 kilometers off the coast of Taichung City, Fengmiao I secured site exclusivity and 500MW grid capacity in Taiwan’s Round 3.1 auction and is the first of Taiwan’s Round 3 projects to reach financial close as well as start construction.
In the statement, Giorgio Fortunato, head of clean energy and power for Asia Pacific at Google, said the CPPA with CIP represented a new chapter for his company as the project will provide reliable electricity to support the firm’s data center, cloud region and offices in Taiwan through integration of offshore wind energy development in Taiwan with the company’s clean energy efforts.
Fengmiao I will build 33 units of CIP’s latest 15MW turbines, CIP said, adding that the project is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2027.
Fengmiao I, which has secured about NT$103 billion (US$3.16 billion) in financing from 27 international and Taiwanese banks and is gearing up to push for construction, is CIP’s third offshore wind project in Taiwan, after the successful construction of Changfang & Xidao and Zhongneng, also in central Taiwan.
Thomas Wibe Poulsen, Partner and Head of Asia-Pacific at CIP, said the agreement with Google regarding the Fengmiao I project is the second power purchasing agreement between the two sides.
In December 2024, through CIP’s Energy Transition Fund, the two companies signed an agreement to buy renewable energy generated by the Zeevonk project in the Netherlands.
While tapping offshore wind energy in Taiwan, Google announced last week that it has signed a geothermal power purchase agreement with Baseload Power Taiwan to support clean energy development — its first such deal in the Asia-Pacific region.
According to Google, Taiwan’s access to “substantial geothermal resources” could complement other renewable sources such as solar and wind, noting the “significant potential” for using underground heat to generate clean electricity.
