Google: Leader in Renewable Energy Deployment
With breathtaking speed and forceful action, we saw the Internet industry rise up against the recent online IP piracy bill that most in Congress thought would easily pass. They were wrong – Google,...
View ArticleDoes Google Have A “Breakthrough Biofuel” Up It’s Sleeve?
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has been successfully testing a breakthrough biofuel at its headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. The biofuel, made by California-based Cool Planet Energy Systems, is produced...
View ArticleGoogle Powers Up Renewable Energy Portfolio
Google kicked off 2013 with an announcement about a new, $200 million equity investment in a wind farm in west Texas. The wind farm can generate enough electricity to power 60,000 average U.S. homes....
View ArticleGoogle Installs Green Roofs at HQ Expansion
Google is expanding its already massive headquarters by over a million square feet and one of the new design elements is a green roof. Working with Seattle-based design firm, NBBJ, the 42 acre...
View ArticleGoogle “Advises” Utility Companies to Use Renewable Energy
As North Carolina works on destroying its Renewable Portfolio Standard – the policy that’s catapulted it to US leadership – Google is showing how important renewables are to economic development there....
View ArticleGoogle Cans Energy Plan $GOOG
RE < C ? Not without a carbon tax or cap and trade system. Google’s decision to stop trying to make clean electricity less expensive than power from traditional “dirty” coal-fired power plants was...
View ArticleGoogle Pours $94M into 4 California PV Projects $GOOG
After Google announced the phase out of its RE<C initiative last month, some in the press drew the conclusion that the tech giant was pulling out of renewables altogether. We quickly pointed outthat...
View ArticleGoogle and Clean Energy $GOOG
Web companies like Google are investing in renewable energy with handsome profits. According to the search engine giant, Google has invested over $915 million in this sector. The company has also...
View ArticleGoogle Receives Environmental Certification for U.S Data Centers
Google, which has some of most energy efficient data centers in the world, has received two important certifications for all them in the US: ISO 14001 environmental certification, and OHSAS 18001, for...
View ArticleGoogle Tops Greenpeace Cool IT Leaderboard List
Greenpeace released its Cool IT Leaderboard on Feb. 8, which ranks information technology (IT) IT companies across the world for their commitment and actions toward supporting clean energy like wind...
View ArticleGoogle Buys 240 MW of Wind Power
Courtesy of Treehugger, here’s yet more evidence that wind power has become an economically competitive, mainstream power source across America. Over the past The post Google Buys 240 MW of Wind Power...
View ArticleGoogle Gobbles Up Nest
Google couldn’t make its own home energy management platform work. So rather than try to invent its way back into the burgeoning market, the internet giant decided to buy its way in. Google just...
View ArticleIn Focus: Google’s Cleantech Investment Strategy
Google has invested billions of dollars in clean energy projects and startups, most recently throwing down $3.2 billion for the intelligent thermostat maker Nest. Is the internet giant positioning...
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Google + SunEdison = Residential Solar Installations
This morning (April 23) SunPower and Google announced that they partnered on a new, $250 million fund to finance rooftop solar arrays on homes across the U.S. While the tech giant has created funds to...
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