Google pumps $5 billion into offshore wind energy

Posted on Wednesday, October 13 2010 @ 21:46 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

Google is estimated to have invested $5 billion into an offshore wind energy project that will stretch 6000MW of wind turbines from New Jersey to Virginia:

On Monday, Google announced on their official blog that they are investing into a transmission backbone that could potentially power 1.9 million households.

Google will partner with a New York financial firm to invest an estimated $5 billion into the project. The Atlantic Wind Connection (AWC) backbone will stretch from New Jersey to Virginia – a whole 350 miles and connect 6,000MW of offshore wind turbines, equating to 60% of the wind energy installed throughout the whole of the US last year.

More info at NeoWin.

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