Amazon is the largest corporate buyer of renewable energy in the world.
Resolved true The record shows it happened or was so.
Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?
Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.
What would count as true or false
Judge as of 2021-04-15. True: a recognized third-party tracker of corporate renewable procurement (e.g. BloombergNEF corporate PPA rankings for 2020, or a comparable industry ranking current at that date) ranks Amazon first in the world among corporate buyers of renewable energy, measured by contracted or purchased renewable volume. Mostly true: Amazon is ranked first on the main measure (e.g. PPA volume contracted in the latest year) but a minor detail differs, such as a ranking based on annual contracted volume rather than cumulative totals, with no credible source placing another company clearly ahead. Mixed: sources differ, with Amazon first on some leading measures and another company (e.g. Google) first on other equally standard ones. Mostly false: Amazon ranked among the top few but another company led on the standard measures at that date. False: Amazon was not among the top corporate buyers at that date.
Set before the research began.
Evidence (3)
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E1 Corporate Clean Energy Buying Grew 18% in 2020, Despite Mountain of Adversity | BloombergNEF BloombergNEF · 26 January 2021
“Amazon was the leading buyer of clean energy in 2020, announcing 35 separate clean energy PPAs in 2020, totalling 5.1GW. The company has now purchased over 7.5GW of clean energy to date, vaulting it ahead of Google (6.6GW) and Facebook (5.9GW) as the world’s largest clean energy buyer.”
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E2 Corporate renewables purchases hit record 23.7 GW in 2020 - pv magazine Global pv magazine · 27 January 2021
“BNEF found that Amazon was the leading buyer of clean energy in 2020, announcing 35 separate clean energy PPAs in 2020, totaling 5.1 GW.”
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E3 Amazon Tops The 2020 List Of Corporate Renewable Energy Buyers Forbes (contributor Ken Silverstein) · 27 January 2021
“BloombergNEF is out with its list of the top corporate buyers of renewable energy. Amazon is first.”
Reasoning
BloombergNEF's January 2021 corporate clean energy review (E1) names Amazon the leading buyer of clean energy in 2020, with 35 PPAs totalling 5.1GW. It also says Amazon's 7.5GW bought to date put it ahead of Google (6.6GW) and Facebook (5.9GW) as the world's largest clean energy buyer. So BloombergNEF ranks Amazon first on both annual and cumulative volume. pv magazine (E2) and Forbes (E3) report the same BloombergNEF ranking, and no source in the evidence places another company ahead as of April 2021.
Cite this claim
Jeff Bezos, “Amazon is the largest corporate buyer of renewable energy in the world.” (said 15 April 2021). Verdict: resolved true. Reliability API, claim c_930f99c5875d, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_930f99c5875d
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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