Google has made all kinds of investments in wind, geothermal, solar, etc, over the past few years. While some are to generate clean energy for their own needs, others are more to financing deals to help big wind and solar farms get built. However, the internet giant has dropped one of its promising renewable energy projects.
Advantages in sustainable green development are everywhere. Now is seems like the airplane industry is catching on as well. Pipistrel-USA’s Taurus G4 won the NASA’s CAFE Green Flight Challenge by flying 200 miles in under two hours, using an amount of electricity equivalent to less than two gallons of gas. Google sponsored the competition, which is supposed to stimulate the electric plane industry.
Just last Tuesday Google announced a new $75 million investment to create an initial fund with Clean Power Finance that will help up to 3,000 homeowners go solar. This is Google’s second investment in residential solar, and they’ve now invested more than $850 million overall to develop and deploy clean energy.
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Google and two business partners have received a key first-approval for construction of a 5 billion dollar power transmission project. The project will link the landward power grid to several wind farms to be built off the US Mid-Atlantic coast.
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Google is again investing in renewable green energy. Google announced last week that it will be making its largest renewable energy investment to date by investing $168 million in Brightsource Energy’s Ivanpah solar thermal power plant in the Mojave desert. When finished the plant will have an installed capacity of 392 MW.
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