{"id":582762,"date":"2010-05-28T09:02:42","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T13:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/?p=8512"},"modified":"2010-05-28T09:02:42","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T13:02:42","slug":"google-buys-mountains-of-carbon-offsets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/582762","title":{"rendered":"Google Buys Mountains of Carbon Offsets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/cleantech.png\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Cleantech\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/funding.png\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Funding\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6892\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 145px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/iStock_000008702958Small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-6892\" title=\"IStock -- garbage \" src=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/iStock_000008702958Small-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"129\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">That&#39;s clean energy&#8230; <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Earlier this week Google <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/portal\/site\/home\/permalink\/?ndmViewId=news_view&amp;newsId=20100526006620&amp;newsLang=en\">announced the purchase of carbon offsets<\/a>, for an undisclosed amount, that will support the deployment of a biogas power generation facility in South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-8512\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Google spokeswoman Emily Wood emails G.E.R. that it has committed to &#8220;pay millions of dollars&#8230; for the offsets,&#8221; through 2013, but she declined to disclose further financial details. Earlier this month, Google announced a <a href=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/2010\/05\/the-week-in-green-energy-google-wind\/\" >$38.8 million<\/a> investment in a North Dakota wind farm being developed by NextEra Energy.<\/p>\n<p>Holladay, Utah-based Blue Source is developing the power project for Santee Cooper and Berkeley County Water &amp; Sanitation, a state-owned utility.\u00a0 Once operational, the facility will capture methane gas from decomposing waste at the Moncks Corner\u00a0 landfill and convert the biogas into electricity.<\/p>\n<p>Wood tells\u00a0us that Google won&#8217;t be using the credits from the Blue Source project to offset emissions from its Berkeley, S.C. data center.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This project helps us reach our goal of company-wide carbon neutrality,&#8221; writes Wood &#8211;for more on that, <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/carbon-neutrality-by-end-of-2007.html\" >see here<\/a>. &#8220;We have also committed to future streams from landfill gas projects in Caldwell County, NC and in Steuben County, NY,&#8221; she adds.<\/p>\n<p>Image: iStockphoto<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GreenEnergyReporter\/~4\/XXnVMG0SQxo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#39;s clean energy&#8230; 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 &#8220;pay millions of dollars&#8230; for the offsets,&#8221; through 2013, but she declined to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2814,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}