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Google announced that it will achieve its goal of powering global operations entirely with renewable energy in 2017. Google represents the largest corporate buyer of renewable energy and its achievement will spur greater investment into clean, renewable energy in the U.S. and across the globe. “The Sierra Club congratulates Google for achieving this historic milestone,” said…

Aquila Capital, a European asset manager of alternative investments, has signed a purchase agreement with renewable energy company, OX2, for a turnkey wind farm with 41 turbines in northern Sweden. The investment is secured by a 10-year PPA contract with Google for the purchase of electricity from the wind farm. The wind farm will be…

Google, Inc. has signed a deal with EDF Renewable Energy (EDF RE) to purchase renewable energy for its data center. The Power Purchase Agreement will provide Google with the full output of the 201-MW Great Western Wind Project, located in Woodward and Ellis counties near the base of the Oklahoma panhandle. The project will commence…

Upon completion of the project in 2017, Google will acquire Vestas’ 12.5% stake in Africa’s largest wind farm, which will supply around 15% of Kenya’s electricity needs based on current generation capacity. The share purchase agreement was recently announced in Washington, DC, in connection with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s Climate and Clean Energy…

Editor’s note: This article from Google talks about a recent agreement to purchase local wind energy to power their North Bayshore headquarters. Technology can help us do more with less. For example, making use of natural climates has helped us make our data centers 50% more efficient than the industry average, and green building technology…

A new report says airborne wind energy (AWE) systems could power the world. In fact, researchers posit that an “intermediate” number of AWE systems, placed in just the right spots, could power our planet three times over – and be more advantageous than conventional turbines. AWE systems work at higher heights than conventional turbines, in…

Google and renewable energy developer EDF Renewable Energy say that Google has made about a $200 million equity investment in the Spinning Spur Wind Project, a 161 MW facility located in Oldham County, Texas. The project was built by EDF Renewable Energy, a subsidiary of EDF Energies Nouvelles, who remains an owner and manager in…

The renewable energy industry knows all too well that one of the greatest hurdles to its growth is the nation’s outdated transmission system. While the government hasn’t jumped on the issue as quickly as the industry would like, major companies such as Google are taking steps to expand lines and transport electricity.

Google executives have signed an agreement to invest in development of a backbone power-transmission project off the Mid-Atlantic coast that offers a financial return while helping accelerate offshore wind development. The new project will create thousands of jobs, says Google, improve consumer access to clean energy sources, and increase the reliability of the Mid-Atlantic region’s…