Walmart WMT is taking a big step toward fulfilling its long-term ambition of being wholly supplied by renewable energy with a new deal to buy more than half of the electricity generated by a new wind power facility in Texas for the next ten years. The world’s largest company will buy 58% of the expected output of Pattern Energy Group’s PEGI 200 megawatt Logan’s Gap Wind facility in Comanche County, Texas (150 miles southwest of…
Walmart doubles down on renewable energy with wind deal
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