Dutch telecoms firm KPN signs solar PPA with Eneco

Dutch telecommunications company KPN has signed a 15-year agreement to purchase electricity from a solar farm that Dutch utility group Eneco is building in Woensdrecht in the Dutch province of Noord-Brabant, the parties announced on Thursday.

The 88,000-panel solar farm will be situated under the five wind turbines of the Kabeljauwbeek wind farm and is expected to come online at the beginning of 2025. KPN will buy more than 47 GWh from it a year for its fixed and mobile networks.

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Under a previous power purchase agreement (PPA) with Eneco, from 2027 the telecommunications company will start receiving more than 200 GWh of power annually from the Ecowende offshore wind farm, which is being built off the Dutch coast near IJmuiden.

Eneco explained that both contracts use a ‘pay as nominated’ mechanism, with KPN’s purchases aligned with the electricity generated by the solar farm and the wind farm.

“From next year, a large part of our power needs will come from the new Kabeljauwbeek solar park. Two years later we will add electricity from the Ecowende wind farm that is now being built. In three years' time, almost all our customers will be using the internet via a sustainable and efficient network that we feed with the right power at the right time, via energy from the sun and wind,” commented KPN CEO Joost Farwerck.