Paras Chadha

Google signs a 20-year deal to power data centers with wind energy

Friday, July 23, 2010

When we decided in 2007 to voluntarily become carbon neutral, our intent was to take responsibility for our carbon emissions and promote sustainable environmental solutions. We approach this goal in three ways. First, we minimize our energy consumption; in fact, we’ve built some of the world’s most energy efficient data centers. Second, we seek to power our facilities with renewable energy, like we did in Mountain View, CA with one of the largest corporate solar installations. Finally, we purchase carbon offsets for the emissions we cannot directly eliminate.

We just completed a substantial 20-year green Power Purchase Agreement that allows us to take responsibility for our footprint and foster true growth in the renewable energy sector. On July 30 we will begin purchasing the clean energy from 114 megawatts of wind generation at the NextEra Energy Resources Story County II facility in Iowa at a predetermined rate for 20 years. Incorporating such a large amount of wind power into our portfolio is tricky (read more about how the deal is structured), but this power is enough to supply several data centers.

From googleblog.blogspot.com (share this quote)

Google Wind Power

Google is a company who is known for their innovation, even when it comes to saving the environment. Google data centers and buildings obviously use a lot of electricity to power, well they have been known for doing things like using solar technology for partial power however recently they have taken a slightly different approach.

According to the Official Google Blog, they apparently have made a 20-year green power purchase agreement with wind energy that apparently will be able to power several Google Data centers! After reading this and seeing what Google is done, I hope other companies follow Google on this decision.

Source: Official Google Blog

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