The online retailer Amazon will in future source electricity from the Gennaker offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea. It is the largest single energy contract ever signed in Germany.
Affordable, green and delivered by express delivery – what the e-commerce giant Amazon usually promises for its deliveries is likely to soon apply to a large proportion of the company’s energy supply. In future, Amazon will source green electricity from the Gennaker offshore wind farm, which is being built by Skyborn Renewables. The so-called ‘Power Purchase Agreement’ (PPA) covers 600 MW of CO₂-free electricity – that is almost two-thirds of the planned capacity that Gennaker is set to generate upon completion. There has never been a PPA of this scale in Germany before, and it is also one of the largest contracts of its kind in Europe.
Amazon’s long-term commitment provides Skyborn with the financial security to press ahead with construction work on Gennaker, the companies announced. The project is set to feed up to 976.5 MW of new offshore wind capacity into Germany’s electricity grid, accelerate Germany’s energy transition and strengthen the supply of domestically generatedCO₂-free electricity.
Germany’s largest Baltic Sea wind farm
With a total capacity of up to 976.5 MW, Gennaker is set to become the largest offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea. The project is being developed approximately 15 km north of the Fischland-Darß-Zingst peninsula in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Skyborn has been developing Gennaker from the outset and secured planning permission in December 2025. The project will comprise 63 offshore wind turbines, each with a capacity of 15 MW. Once operational, Gennaker will generate enough CO₂-free electricity to supply over one million German households annually. Construction work on the wind farm is set to begin in the summer of 2026, following the finalisation of financing by Skyborn, with Gennaker due to come online by the end of 2028.
The Gennaker project involves a total investment of €3 billion, from which the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania region will benefit. The monopile foundations are being manufactured by the German company EEW Special Pipe Constructions (EEW SPC) in Rostock – just 40 km from the Gennaker site. According to Skyborn, the contract is set to boost local economic growth and secure jobs at EEW SPC, which currently employs 1,000 people.
“Gennaker is the largest energy investment ever made in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania,” said Minister-President Manuela Schwesig. “We need large, high-performance offshore wind farms to achieve the energy transition and supply citizens and the economy with electricity generated in an environmentally friendly way. The power purchase agreement between Skyborn Renewables and Amazon is very important news for our state. It shows that large companies are banking on wind power from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. By generating large quantities of electricity off our coast, the project is extremely attractive to energy-intensive industries and creates jobs as well as long-term value in the region.”
Amazon is the largest buyer of green electricity
For Amazon, too, the project sets a new record: the PPA is the US group’s largest power purchase agreement forcarbon-free energy in Germany. Together with existing projects, Amazon’s green electricity portfolio in Germany now comprises 12 projects with a total capacity of over 1.3 GW.
Once these projects are fully operational, they will generate enough energy to cover the annual consumption of 1.8 million German households.
According to its own statement, Amazon is Europe’s largest commercial purchaser of green electricity. Through its Climate Pledge, launched in 2019, Amazon has set itself the goal of achieving CO₂-neutrality by 2040. “As part of this goal, Amazon is facilitating new energy projects that feed CO₂-free power into the electricity grid, which strengthens both its sites and national energy systems in the long term,” the company said.
“Long-term cooperation between business and politics is key to driving forward the energy transition in Germany,” said Rocco Bräuniger, Amazon’s Country Director for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. “With our largest power purchase agreement to date in Germany, we are giving Skyborn the certainty to bring Gennaker to fruition — and in doing so, bringing almost one gigawatt of new offshore wind capacity online. This strengthens the country’s energy security and creates jobs and investment in the region.”
“This agreement with Amazon is a milestone for Gennaker and Skyborn,” said Adam Thomsen, Chief Development Officer at Skyborn Renewables. “Gennaker demonstrates how large-scale offshore wind energy can be implemented reliably and at scale. It also reflects the growing need to combine renewable electricity generation with robust and forward-looking infrastructure that enables a resilient energy system. I am incredibly proud of our teams for making this possible.”
