Late last year technology giant Google confirmed its status as the world's largest corporate backer of clean energy when it revealed that it would reach 100% renewable coverage of its global operations in 2017.

Francois Sterin, Google's director, global infrastructure,  talked to Recharge about the company's strategy and its view of the corporate renewables market.

As the global leader in corporate renewable energy, and as the first corporation to achieve 100% renewables, what outreach work is Google doing to encourage other major companies to follow your lead? 

 We do a lot of outreach and we try to lead by example, as illustrated by our 2017 100% renewable energy target.