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April 19, 2011 07:12 am GMT

A Wind Farm In Oregon Draws $100 Million Investment From Google's Treasury

Google Inc.'s putting another $100 million into large-scale, renewable energy projects. The company's director of green business operations, Rick Needham, revealed Monday in a post to the corporate blog:
[Google] invested approximately $100 million in the Shepherds Flat Wind Farm...currently under construction near windy Arlington, Ore. When completed in 2012 [the plant] will produce 845 MW of energy. This will be the first commercial wind farm in the U.S. to deploy, at scale, turbines that use permanent magnet generators...The electricity produced at Shepherds Flat will be sold under long-term agreements to Southern California Edison...

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