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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has just granted the giant Google to buy and sell electricity at wholesale, in essence, granted to act as a supplier of energy. When Google has set up its branch called Google Energy has asked the FERC license for access to wholesale energy market, claiming that their aim was to buy affordable and renewable energy for their own use in the company.
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The representative of Google , Niki Fenwick said: "When you can not buy affordable renewable energy in our markets and belonging to the range of those given by the electricity company. We want to buy the highest quality, renewable energy more affordable, especially whenever we can sell-credit-green. " But is it possible that Google have other objectives in mind. In fact, it took time and money on energy projects in recent years and have an extraordinary vision for a future global energy-related clean. As stated by Phillip Moeller, Commissioner of the FERC, during a meeting in Washington, "are being transformed into a new energy era."
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Google has just developed a new prototype of a mirror and solar concentrator created with the new technologies available and that could reduce by half the cost of building a solar thermal system, so he said the "czar" of the energy department Green Google Bill Weihl. Addressing the Global Climate and Alternative Energy Summit organized by Reuters in San Francisco, Weihl has expressed disappointment at the lack of innovation in this field, this has led Google to undertake a journey really.
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Weihl said that if the development and testing are successful and you can see the product as a minimum of one to a maximum of three years. "This has had some developments," Weihl said in an interview. "We already have a prototype within." Google sought unusual materials to the surface of the mirror and the substrate on which is mounted the mirror. Weihl, however, is reluctant to say more about the materials, as there has been no external evidence. In solar thermal technology, solar energy is used to heat a substance through a solar concentrator that produces steam that moves a turbine. We have already seen how big G is investing in several companies and research centers to generate renewable energy at affordable costs, with the aim of cutting costs. And solar concentrators are often so expensive as to discourage investors.
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"Currently, a plant of 250 MW can cost from $ 600 million to $ 1 billion. A lot of money, "says Weihl. With our new solar concentrator there is a good chance that in a few years we could have a reduction in cost in half. " Several large multinational companies are increasingly investing in green technologies, since the world is grappling with global warming and governments seeking to implement regulations that would limit emissions of greenhouse gases. Google currently has invested in two companies in the field of solar thermal eSolar and BrightSource . Another technology that Google is working on gas turbines are operated by solar power rather than natural gas, an idea which provides a further cut the cost of electricity. "In two or three years we have demonstrated of a pilot system of large size, which could generate a lot of energy at a cost between 5 cents or 5 cents per kilowatt hour under the "concludes Weihl.
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