“This is definitely an open call [for opportunities],” François Sterin told the Outside the Box panel session.

Over the past decade, Google, which has been carbon-neutral since 2007, has emerged as one of the world’s largest investors in wind and solar, currently obtaining 34% of its electricity from renewable sources.

It is looking into both power-purchase agreements (PPAs) and project ownership in Europe — its only wind-related investments on the continent so far being 131MW of PPAs from five Swedish wind farms.

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