Green Technologies Google doubles on renewables and aims to become the first carbon neutral
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G.Rus of | 4 December 2015
A Mountain View have called as the largest purchase of renewable energy ever made by a company that is not a utility active in the field. The new step forward for Google in the direction of environmental sustainability – the giant California, reminds us of a statement issued by the company, is already “carbon neutral” by 2007 – are a number of new projects that will add more wind and photovoltaic 842 megawatts to the resources committed to power its data centers around the world. An amount that may mean little to the layman but that the matter is, in fact, a leap in capacity double the renewable energy purchased by Google to date.
The aim of the two gigawatts, an amount that the equivalent of removing nearly one million cars off the road in terms of harmful emissions, was then reached, but Google looks forward, because the next goal is to win more ambitious. And is as follows: triple purchases of renewable energy by 2025, as well as provides the “Business Act on Climate Pledge” signed last July by various American corporations with the White House, and feed 100% of its assets with clean energy .
The new injection of renewable, made it known officially Google, comes from various locations and different technologies, including for example a wind farm assets in Sweden and a solar plant in operation in Chile. The contracts have a duration between 10 and 20 years and, again confirm by Mountain View, have the dual mission to minimize the environmental impact of services Bigg and positively impact (as it is known) on energy costs of the company.
Compared with other big tech company in the world, all committed to the same Google in shares of various kinds to make “green” their data center (Apple in the lead), the strategy of the American giant is to focus very strongly on renewable. 2010 is the first purchase contract on a large scale in this field (with a wind farm in Iowa). Gradually they have been made a number of purchases of energy similar over the last five years up to the agreements announced today, which features the first project related to photovoltaics. To complete the picture here is the $ 2.5 billion allocated so far to fund 22 renewable projects around the globe.
Apple focuses on solar panels: Singapore last stage
Not only Europe (Ireland and Denmark), China and the United States, where in Monterey is building a huge plant Solar an area of 500 hectares of land (the investment is 850 million US dollars) that will provide power to the data center of Newark, at 52 Apple Store and other facilities. The galaxy of “green” projects of Cupertino home soon will touch even Singapore, where the first of the Apple store will be completely powered by clean, renewable energy produced by a plant, which should be operational in January 2016, and have a capacity of 50 megawatts.
Specifically, will install solar panels on the roofs of over eight hundred buildings that will provide electricity to the new Apple campus built in the area, where about 2,500 people. The California-based company will become the first company operating in Singapore with the help of exclusive energy from renewable sources, and allocate a portion of the energy produced (approximately 17 megawatts) to meet the needs of homes and buildings.
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