GOOGLE THE WIND GIANT
Google now buying enough wind energy to power 170K homes
Katie Fehrenbacher, September 17, 2013 (GigaOm)
“…[Google] is purchasing another 240 megawatts from a wind farm outside of Amarillo, Texas, called Happy Hereford, which will be live in late 2014. The wind power contract — Google’s largest purchase agreement to date — will send power into the area of the grid where Google’s Mayes County, Oklahoma data center operates…The Happy Hereford wind farm deal is Google’s first wind purchase contract in Texas, and the farm itself is being developed by a Native American-owned company in Oklahoma called Chermac Energy…In total Google has invested over $1 billion into 2 GW — or a Hoover’s Dam worth — of clean power projects…in the form of equity into projects, directly and indirectly buying clean power, investing in clean power startups, and even more experimental initiatives…” click here for more
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