MIX makes energy procurement more efficient and signs a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for the purchase of solar energy from MET Energia Italia

The agreement entails the commercialization, by MET Energia, of the entire energy production of the Sicilian solar plant Mirto Solarpark.

Milan, 3 November 2023 – MIX S.r.l., a leading Internet Exchange Point (IXP) in Italy and a provider of interconnection services for Internet traffic exchange among operators, has laid the foundation for optimising its energy procurement process. The company has indeed entered into a five-year Corporate Power Purchase Agreement (CPPA) with Solarpack Mirto, a producer whose renewable energy production from photovoltaic sources in Sicily is withdrawn and dispatched by MET Energia Italia S.p.A.

Starting from July 1 of this year, all the energy produced by the Sicilian photovoltaic park, through MET Energia Italia, is fed into the grid and purchased by MIX. This energy offsets the consumption of the data center located in Caldera Park, the site of the public Internet peering.

The operation was coordinated by Spinergy, a long-standing consultancy firm in the field of portfolio management and energy cost optimization for industrial clients.

“The increase in energy costs recorded in 2022 has had significant repercussions on a highly energy-intensive sector such as telecommunications, where we operate, to the extent that it has necessitated a complete paradigm shift. For MIX, it is no longer sufficient to choose the best supplier: sustainability, efficiency, awareness, and transparency are the criteria that inspire our new approach to managing energy procurement,” said Alessandro Talotta, Executive President & Chairman MIX.

With this operation, MIX demonstrates its commitment to implementing a strategy that aims to achieve more efficient energy procurement processes for the benefit of the entire Telco sector.