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Google Announces New Investment in Solar Energy
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November 18, 2013

Google Announces New Investment in Solar Energy

By Oliver VanDervoort
Contributing Writer

Green tech and solar energy is only becoming more popular as we move farther into the 21st century. Google (News - Alert) is just the latest company that has decided another big time investment in solar energy was long overdue. The company recently announced that it is going to be investing more than $80 million in six brand new solar energy plants on the west coast.


 California and Arizona will be the headquarters for the six new solar energy plants. When construction on the plants is complete, more than 17,000 homes in the two states will be getting power from those plants. This is actually the 14th investment the company has made in renewable energy. In total, the company has invested more than $1 billion in solar and wind projects since April of 2010.

 Google is hardly the only firm that has turned to solar and renewable energy alternatives. Among the smaller firms that have found a foothold in renewable energy is Kyocera who recently announced an entire line of products that run on solar power.

 Kyocera (News - Alert) (News - Alert) can’t really hang with firms like Google when it comes to alternative energy investing. Google says that the $1 billion it has spent in solar and wind projects has a combined capacity of 106 megawatts. That means that while the power projects are putting out a pretty good amount of energy, they don’t really compare to the old reliable power plants just yet. A typical coal fired power plant puts out about 600 to 700 megawatts. A nuclear power plant outdoes that by a pretty good margin. Nuclear power can provide 900 to 1,300 megawatts of power.

 Google announced in a recent blog post that is currently gets about 33 percent of its energy from renewable sources. At some point in the very near future, the firm says it wants to be 100 percent renewable.




Edited by Cassandra Tucker


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