Google begin the biggest Solar Power Project

Google, the internet giant company has launched its latest project into the field of renewable energy sources, which is the biggest solar power plant. This plant is highly equipped with voice security and surveillance over the area to catch any type of unwanted things. The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating Station is located on California Nevada border. It uses 347,000 mirrors that direct face sun, to generate 392 Megawatts of electricity. This amount of Electricity can be uses to power more than 140,000 homes; plants build up with $168 Million investing and one of the latest ventures in series of sixteen ventures, which Google started last year in renewable energy field, this investment taking company into $1 billion investing into such field. 

Rick Needham, Google’s director of energy and sustainability said “We’ve invested over a billion dollars in 15 projects that have the capacity to produce two gig watts of power around the world, mostly in the US, but that’s the equivalent of Hoover’s Dam worth of power generation..The fact is that all of these things, procuring power for ourselves, investing in power plants, renewable power plants, they all make business sense, and they make sense for us as a company to do. We rely on power for our business.”

The Ivanpah plant is worth about $2.2 billion but half of the investment comes from Federal loans so with such involvement the plant is owned jointly by NRG Energy and Bright Source Energy with Google. Sources say that 34 % of Google business is powered by such plants. This plant was accused of killing birds because plants generate thousand-Degree of heat, which push it into abyss. Nonetheless of issue of the company, it still makes the top place into “Green IT”, which is the table for environmentally friendly technology firms in 2013.