KPN has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) to offtake from an upcoming solar farm in the Netherlands.

The Dutch telco has signed a 15-year deal to purchase the output of Eneco's newly built Kabeljauwbeek solar park in the Brabant municipality of Woensdrecht. The company will be offtaking more than 47 GWh (gigawatt hours) of electricity annually.

Construction on the park started this year. The solar park, featuring 88,000 solar panels built under the five wind turbines of the Kabeljauwbeek wind farm, will supply energy for KPN's fixed and mobile networks from the beginning of 2025.

Joost Farwerck, KPN CEO, said: “From next year, a large part of our power needs will come from the new Kabeljauwbeek solar park. Two years later we added electricity from Eneco's wind 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.”

Eneco said that from 2027, more than 200GWh of electricity will be added from the new Ecowende wind farm, which is currently being built more than 50 km off the Dutch coast near IJmuiden.

In addition, solar panels have been installed on 40 technical KPN buildings in recent years. This means that approximately two-thirds of the electricity that KPN will consume from 2027 will come from sustainable sources.

As Tempelman, Eneco CEO, added: “This purchase agreement is a great milestone in our many years of collaboration with KPN. By supplying green energy from the Kabeljauwbeek solar park, we help KPN realize its climate ambitions.”

Majority-owned by Mitsubishi Corporation, Eneco has previously signed PPAs with the likes of Amazon, Google, and Microsoft.