{"id":33901,"date":"2017-07-06T06:02:48","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T06:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=33901"},"modified":"2017-07-06T06:02:48","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T06:02:48","slug":"google-start-getting-norwegian-wind-power-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/google-start-getting-norwegian-wind-power-september.html","title":{"rendered":"Google to start getting Norwegian wind power by September"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Google to start getting Norwegian wind power by September<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Alphabet Inc&#8217;s (GOOGL.O) Google unit expects to receive its first wind power from Norway by early September, the company told Reuters on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Tellenes wind farm, a 50-turbine strong wind farm of 160-megawatt (MW) capacity that is currently under development, will become Norway&#8217;s largest wind farm and Google&#8217;s biggest in Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">&#8220;We&#8217;ll purchase power as soon as the wind farm becomes fully operational, which we expect will take place in early September 2017,&#8221; a Google spokesman told Reuters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Google last year signed a 12-year deal to buy 100 percent of the plant&#8217;s output. The company, which has four European data centers in Finland, Belgium, the Netherlands and Ireland, said the wind power will be used to supply one or several of them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The Tellenes wind farm&#8217;s first turbine will begin to generate power by next week, said Olav Rommetveit, a spokesman for farm maker Zephyr, although Google will not receive the initial output.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">&#8220;Google will not immediately get the supply. It has an exclusive contract for 12 years and they will begin getting the electricity at some point after commercial operations begins,&#8221; said Rommetveit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The electricity produced until Google starts receiving the farm&#8217;s full capacity, will be sold on the Nord Pool power exchange, he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">BlackRock (BLK.N), which provided the project&#8217;s equity financing, confirmed the first turbine would be ready for production next week and said power sales would start a few days later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Arise (ARISE.ST), a Swedish wind power company, will be the farm&#8217;s operator.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Google has also bought the future output of a smaller wind farm in Sweden, due to start operation in 2018, bringing the total capacity of its renewable power purchases in Europe to 500 MW, the company said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-alphabet-norway-energy-idUSKBN19Q214<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/google-start-getting-norwegian-wind-power-september.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google to start getting Norwegian wind power by September Alphabet Inc&#8217;s (GOOGL.O) Google unit expects to receive its first wind power from Norway by early September, the company told Reuters on Wednesday. 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