That's clean energy…
Earlier this week Google announced the purchase of carbon offsets, for an undisclosed amount, that will support the deployment of a biogas power generation facility in South Carolina.
Google spokeswoman Emily Wood emails G.E.R. that it has committed to “pay millions of dollars… for the offsets,” through 2013, but she declined to disclose further financial details. Earlier this month, Google announced a $38.8 million investment in a North Dakota wind farm being developed by NextEra Energy.
Holladay, Utah-based Blue Source is developing the power project for Santee Cooper and Berkeley County Water & Sanitation, a state-owned utility. Once operational, the facility will capture methane gas from decomposing waste at the Moncks Corner landfill and convert the biogas into electricity.
Wood tells us that Google won’t be using the credits from the Blue Source project to offset emissions from its Berkeley, S.C. data center.
“This project helps us reach our goal of company-wide carbon neutrality,” writes Wood –for more on that, see here. “We have also committed to future streams from landfill gas projects in Caldwell County, NC and in Steuben County, NY,” she adds.
Image: iStockphoto