Google to invest in wind

摘要

Google has made its first direct investment in utility-scale renewable energy generation, providing US$38.8m to two North Dakota wind farm projects.rnGoogle's Rick Needham, Green Business Operations Manager, said in a blog post that it had invested in two farms built by NextEra Energy Resources, which together will provide 170MW of wind energy capacity.rnThe wind farms are expected to make use of cutting edge turbine technologies, pioneering the use of control systems that can constantly monitor output from each turbine and continuously adjust individual blade angles to improve efficiency and enable the use of blades that are 15 per cent larger than on standard turbines.