Dive Brief:

• Salesforce signed a 12-year agreement on Monday to finance a new wind farm in West Virginia, CIO reports.

• Once the farm becomes operational, it’s expected to produce 125,000 megawatt hours of energy annually.

• Salesforce recently committed to eventually powering its global operations entirely with renewable energy.

Dive Insight:

The new wind farm would generate about 90% of the company’s total electricity, putting Salesforce well on the way toward its 100% goal.

Salesforce's purchased clean power would be delivered through a virtual power purchase agreement to the same regional electricity grid that currently powers the majority of its data-center load, CIO reports. Google has used similar agreements.

The deal is Salesforce's first major renewable-energy agreement. The company recently committed to achieve net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050.

Corporate buyers signed wind and solar transactions amounting to more than 3 gigawatts in 2015, up from just 1.2 gigawatts in 2014.