Anheuser-Busch signs wind farm power deal as part of global renewable energy goal

Anheuser-Busch InBev has signed a deal to buy power produced by an Oklahoma wind farm as part of its global goal to have 100 percent of its purchased electricity come from renewable sources by 2025. A-B, its U.S. subsidiary based in St. Louis, announced a power purchase agreement with Italian renewable energy company Enel Green Power for a portion of the energy produced at Enel Green Power's Thunder Ranch wind farm located in Garfield, Kay and Noble counties in Oklahoma.Enel Green Power has been growing its footprint across the U.S. and Canada with corporations, including a recent deal with Google for wind power in Kansas, said Rafael Antonio González Sánchez, CEO of Enel Green Power North America.The Oklahoma wind farm deal will be the brewer’s first contracted utility-scale project to start operations globally. Earlier this year, the maker of Budweiser and other beers announced plans for a similar deal in Mexico for 490 gigawatt hours annually, but that wind farm deal won’t go into effect until 2019.