Contrary to many headlines, the Silicon Valley search-engine goliath is not backing away from the more than $850m it has committed to renewables-related projects – from the 392MW Ivanpah power-tower plant under construction in California to a proposed $5.5bn subsea electrical “bootstrap” intended to connect offshore wind farms off the US Atlantic coast.
But Google has unequivocally killed off its RE<C campaign (“Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Coal”), as part of chief executive Larry Page’s ongoing purge of ancillary products and services.
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