Saturday, 2 December 2017

Google 🌏 is officially 100% 😱 sun and wind powered 👏


Google is officially off-setting 100% of its energy usage with either wind or solar power. The company signed contracts on three wind power plants in recent days to bring them over 3GW of production capacity.

Google’s energy infrastructure investments have totaled over $3.5 billion globally, with about two-thirds being in the US.

Citing a cost decrease of 60%-80% in wind and solar as the driving factor, Google has been investing heavily in renewables. They first signed an agreement in 2010 to purchase all of the production per year from a 114MW wind farm in Iowa. As of November of 2016, they’d participated in 20 renewable energy projects. The company announced that they’d break 100% renewable back in December of 2016.

Google is the world’s largest corporate buyer or renewable energy, totaling over 3.0GW. This is nearly twice as much as the next largest purchaser of renewables, Amazon, at about 1.5GW. Jeff Bezos showed off on one of his recent wind power installations.


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