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Google is helping to build a large wind farm off the Mid-Atlantic coast, they are calling it the Atlantic Wind Connection, planned to create 6,000 megawatts of power, which will be used for the coastal states.
This is following NERL’s prediction that wind power can generate 4 times the amount of electricity that America currently uses.
Google isn’t as it may seem, actually building the wind farms (Blades and towers, I forget what they are called collectively), but actually the transmission cables and system to transport the energy to the coast, when completed the AWC (Atlantic Wind Connection) backbone will stretch 350 off the coast from New Jersey to Virginia.
The Backbone is going to be built around sea based power hubs that will collect the power from multiple farms, and then deliver it to the land based transmission system.
This system being led by an independent company Trans-Elect. Financed by Good Energies, Marubeni and Google.
The wind farm is part of a plan by the U.S to generate renewable energy so they don’t rely on foreign oil as much.
Google will kick in 37.5% of the equity in the development stage of the AWC, the next step will be to get all the necessary approvals for financing and begin the construction process.
Google believes in investing in projects that make good business sense and further the development of renewable energy, Rick Needham the company's green-business operations director wrote "This is just another on a list of interesting projects Google is participating in,".
The project will reportedly cost $5 billion and will deliver power to southern Virginia, Delaware and New Jersey.
The first phase will connect population and power transmission hubs in southern New Jersey and Delaware with undersea cables. It will cost $1.8 billion, and construction is scheduled to begin in 2013 and is scheduled to transmit power by 2016.
-Fren
Post Merge: October 12, 2010, 01:39:17 PM
Didn't have a Green section too add as an article, so put it in tech news
