The car manufacturer recently announced that they have signed an agreement with Onshore Aldermyrberget AB, for a wind farm that will be located in Skellefteå, in northern Sweden. Volkswagen says this is the largest project in its portfolio to date, and its share of the wind turbine will generate about 100 GWh of electricity. It is enough to cover the needs of about 27,000 households per year.

This new investment is just another step that the carmaker has taken in its ambitious journey to become completely carbon neutral by 2050. VW’s program is called “Way to Zero” and the carmaker claims that it plans to invest around 40 million euros (45 million dollars) in wind farms and solar power plants in Europe by 2025.

And speaking of photovoltaic systems, Volkswagen also announced that a new one in northeastern Germany (Tramm-Göte) is planned to go online in early 2022. It is a joint project between VW and the energy company REWE and consists of approximately 420,000 photovoltaic modules, ie. . the largest independent solar project in the country.

More green electricity projects will follow in the next three years, also in other European countries, such as Spain, the United Kingdom and Finland. Together, they will be able to generate about seven terawatt hours of electricity, which corresponds to the capacity of over 300 wind turbines, enough to cover the annual consumption of 600,000 households.

As explained by Andreas Walingen, Chief Strategy Officer for VW, the company’s focus is on investing in renewable energy, especially in areas where Volkswagen’s electric vehicles are popular with customers, which is why the car manufacturer’s share in the wind farm in Sweden was a logical step. The German car manufacturer is a leader in electric cars in Sweden, with a market share of 20 percent and 9,300 deliveries from January to November 2021.