FT.com / Technology - Google to invest in wind power

FT.com / Technology - Google to invest in wind power

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Google said it will make a large-scale investment to harness offshore wind power in a move that shows the search giant continues to diverge from its core business.

The company said that it would join forces with Good Energies and Japan’s Marubeni Corporation to finance the project that will create miles of underwater cables to transport energy from wind farms to US cities. Trans-Elect, an independent transmission company, will lead the project and Google is investing in 37.5 per cent of the equity for the initial development of the project.!

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