Nestlé’s recently announced they are partnering with EDP Renewables, a global leader in the renewable energy sector and one of the world’s largest wind energy producers, in a 15-year power purchase agreement that will provide approximately 80 percent of the electricity load for five Nestlé facilities in southeastern Pennsylvania.

The agreement is a major step forward for Nestlé’s ambition to procure 100 percent of its electricity from renewable sources.

The details of the agreement are:

• EDP Renewables’ Meadow Lake VI wind farm (the “wind farm”) will generate and deliver 50 megawatts of electricity through the PJM Interconnection grid to manufacturing facilities and distribution centers operated by Nestlé Purina PetCare, Nestlé USA and Nestlé Waters North America in Allentown and Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.

• The expansion will add 50 megawatts, enough to power approximately 17,700 homes for one year, to the existing 150 MW EDPR has already secured for the project. Additionally, the wind farm will bring several economic benefits to the state of Indiana in the form of jobs, landowner and tax payments, and money spent in local communities.

• With the addition of the energy from the wind farm, 20 percent of the electricity Nestlé uses in the U.S. will come from renewable sources in 2019.

This change is part of Nestlé’s broader goal of making a more sustainable future for its employees and the communities in which they live and work.