Casino Group and Amazon Web Services agreed to a strategic collaboration to aid each company’s sustainability goals. Casino Group, through its energy subsidiary GreenYellow, which is a major international player in decentralized solar power generation and energy efficiency, is pleased to announce it agreed to a Corporate Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Amazon for a new utility-scale solar project in France. The deal highlights GreenYellow’s ability to provide renewable energy for the power needs of large companies operating in France.
The companies will continue to evaluate other renewable projects in France and across Europe.
The renewable electricity purchased under the PPA will help support Amazon’s commitment to power its global operations with 100% renewable energy as part of its Climate Pledge commitment to reach net-zero carbon by 2040—10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement.
Under this collaboration, Casino Group and its subsidiary GreenYellow will benefit from AWS Cloud services fueled with green energy. AWS will also work with RelevanC, the Group’s subsidiary specializing in data marketing solutions, to develop algorithms to further enhance customer experience.
Casino Group once again demonstrates its ability to partner with the best players in each sector to pursue its digital transformation. It is consolidating its collaboration with Amazon around three essential axis: energy with GreenYellow which supports major players in meeting their sustainability goals, the digitalization, of its IT architecture in particular, and algorithms developed to enhance customer experience."
Jean-Charles NAOURI, CEO of Casino Group
GreenYellow is pleased to support sustainability goals’ AWS through a first CPPA that provides an environmentally friendly energy production coupled with an innovative solution. This collaboration confirms the relevance of our global and unique platform and skills dedicated to the energy transition and reinforces the acceleration of GreenYellow's development strategy.”
Otmane HAJJI, President of GreenYellow.