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An article from Information Week starts out, “Continuing its efforts to implement socially responsible technology, Google on Tuesday said that its Google Energy subsidiary had completed a 20-year Power Purchase Agreement with NextEra Energy Resources to buy clean power.”
It talks about how the commitment to purchase wind power enables the energy producer. “By contracting to purchase so much energy for so long, we’re giving the developer of the wind farm financial certainty to build additional clean energy projects,” he said in a blog post. “The inability of renewable energy developers to obtain financing has been a significant inhibitor to the expansion of renewable energy.”
Regardless of the motivation behind Google’s commitment to be carbon neutral, good on ‘em.

The Peetz Wind Farm, also known as the Peetz Table Wind Energy Center, is a 400 MW power station in north-eastern Colorado, owned by
On November 20, Congresswoman Betsy Markey was today joined by Congressman Erik Paulsen (R-MN) in introducing the Renewable Electricity Integration Tax Credit Act (REITC), which will provide a tax credit for utilities to integrate more wind and solar into their energy portfolios.
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Seventeen small turbines are going to be installed in a Sam’s Club parking lot in Palmdale, California atop existing light poles. The turbines are expected to produce 76,000 kilowatts of energy (enough to power six single-family homes for a year).
