Wal-Mart Doubles Down on Renewable Energy With Wind Deal

Wal-Mart 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 10 years. The world’s largest company will buy 58 percent of the expected output of Pattern Energy Group’s 200 megawatt Logan’s Gap Wind facility in Comanche County, Texas (150 miles southwest of Dallas). The amount of energy sourced from the facility will account for nearly one-fifth of the contribution of Wal-Mart’s U.S. division, its largest by far, to the overall company’s goal of getting 7 billion kilowatt-hours of renewable energy by 2020.