News about Solar, Wind and alternative green power technologies

There aren’t lots of chances that the corporate world makes a drastic manoeuvre in the field of green energy. They might be investing in renewable energy, as well as low-cost energy solutions but it is insufficient to tackle climate change. The necessary solutions to make renewable energy an overwhelming welcome is to develop renewable energy technology that downcast the cost-efficiency related to coal plants.

Since 2007, companies such as Google are promoting and engaging in developing utility-scale renewable electricity that challenges the coal energy sector. Some of its emerging concepts are:

1. RechargeIT

Google.org’s RechargeIT initiative is focusing on increasing the use of plug-in vehicles by creating “smart charging “applications. It is a mere fact the transportation sector accounts for around one third of the total emission of green house gases solely in U.S and 20 percent at a global level. Google considers that hybrid running on electricity is the most feasible solution to downgrade the release of CO2 emission in the transportation field.

2. Google PowerMeter

The development of systems that allows people to see their use of electricity can better enable them to save energy and that is what Google suggests. The “Google Power Meter” gives people the possibility to evaluate in real time the electricity consumption directly on the computer screen.

3. Clean Energy 2030

Energy dependency does not need to be heavily on fossil fuel, clean energy can be made pervasively in use, especially in America according to Google. Analysis conducted by Google projects that fossil fuel could be eliminated to a substantial level by 2030. A strategy to trim down the level of diesel and petroleum used by cars by 40 percent would have an astronomical effect. This would also save billions of dollars as well as develop an unfolded quantity of renewable related jobs.

4. Solar Panels

Google’s step, in 2007, to try to bring solar energy in to the forefront has emblazoned its name amidst the largest corporate solar installation in the United States at Mountain View headquarters. There are 9,212 solar panels installed with a capacity of 1.6MW of energy. It is sufficient to supply around 1, 000 average California households. The benefit of solar panel is two-folded, it reduces CO2 emissions and recovers its cost within a period of 7 years and 6 months.

Google as a leader on the World Wide Web is setting its footprint in the renewable energy sector. Investing in green energy appears to be a wise and even a social corporate objective of Google.

Source: Google