Google Will Soon Use Wind Power to Run Its HQ
February 12th, 2015 | posted on www.wired.com
Google is going greener.
Today, the internet giant announced that it’s buying power from California’s Altamont Pass, an iconic 7-square-mile wind farm between the San Francisco Bay Area and the state’s Central Valley. The company has signed a 20-year power purchase agreement with Florida-based NextEra Energy, which owns the wind farm, according to a report from the San Jose Mercury News.
By 2016, Google says, 50 percent of the power produced by the wind farm, or 43 MW of electricity, will power 100 percent of its Googleplex campus in Mountain View, California, about 50 miles away from the wind farm.
The terms of Google’s deal with NextEra were not publicly disclosed, but part of the agreement between the two companies includes a transformation of the wind farm. Three-hundred and seventy of the wind farm’s old turbines from the 1980s will be replaced by 24 bigger machines that will produce twice as much energy, Google says. Fewer and more efficient turbines will also reduce the number of bird deaths from the spinning blades, according to the tech company.
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