4 posts and columns on renewable energy

Google Becomes Big Fan of Oregon Wind Farm

in News on April 18, 2011 at 2:14 pm PT

Google’s renewable energy efforts continued apace today with the company’s second cleantech investment this month. Last week, Google took a $168 million equity stake in the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, a utility-scale solar plant being developed in the Mojave Desert. Today, it announced it had invested $100 million in the Shepherds Flat project, an Oregon wind farm.

Google Invests in Two Wind Farms

in News on May 4, 2010 at 12:00 am PT

Google Inc. has invested $38.8 million in two North Dakota wind farms, the Internet giant’s first direct investment in utility-scale renewable energy generation. The Mountain View, Calif., company said in a Monday blog post that it invested in wind farms built by NextEra Energy Resources, a unit of FPL Group Inc.

Did You Forget to Pay the Google Bill? We Got Another Disconnection Notice.

in News on January 8, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

Google has a long and storied history of insisting it has no plans whatsoever to do something that it ultimately ends up doing. So the company’s claims this week that it doesn’t plan to enter the speculative energy trading business even though it has established a new Google Energy LLC subsidiary that would allow it to do just that, are certainly an eyebrow raiser.
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Solar Stocks Warm Up After Senate Backs Tax Credit Plan

in News on September 24, 2008 at 6:47 am PT

Solar stocks are off to a rousing start this morning after the U.S. Senate last night voted 93-2 to back a tax extender package that includes an 8 year extension of solar investment tax credits. The measure now moves to the House.