“Google Inc. continues to pour money into renewable technologies, unveiling a new program with solar-panel maker SunPower Corp. to provide financing to support about $250 million in residential solar-lease projects,” Ben Fox Rubin reports for The Wall Street Journal.
“Google is committing up to $100 million in the program and SunPower is committing about $150 million,” Rubin reports. “Google touts over $1 billion pumped into renewable projects, ranging from wind farms in the Mojave Desert to a German solar facility and a transmission line for wind farms off the mid-Atlantic Coast.”
Rubin reports, “The Internet giant has also signed contracts to buy hundreds of megawatts of renewable electricity for its data centers.”
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