Google: massive new purchase of renewable energy
Google continues its migration to renewable energy and announced a major purchase of 1600 MW of solar and wind power to supplement its supplies.
While Amazon launches its Climate Pledge promising to meet the goals of the Paris climate agreements 10 years ahead of time, Google is extending its own efforts in renewable energy supply.
The Mountain View group has been providing 100% renewable energy since 2017 and claims to be the first of its size to have achieved it. And to stay in this trend, Google announces that they have made a massive purchase of 1600 megawatts (MW) of electricity from solar and wind energy.
This represents a set of 18 contracts worldwide and will increase its supply to 5,500 MW, equivalent to 1 million solar panels or the annual electricity consumption of countries like Lithuania or Uruguay.
These agreements will lead to the construction of new infrastructure for the equivalent of $ 2 billion, between solar panels and new wind farms built on three continents (including Europe, with projects in Finland, Sweden, Belgium and Denmark).
They are part of an additional strategy that aims to build and operate new facilities and not just use existing infrastructure, says Google.
The group’s recent purchases also mark a turning point in the procurement strategy. So far, Google has mainly focused on wind energy, but the decline in solar energy costs makes this solution more attractive and leads the group to consider this source of energy as well.
Also, for the first time they are using a hybrid solar / wind supply in Chile to exploit the two resources that are not active at the same time.
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