Vint talks about Google’s interest in clean energy including their commitment to sustainable computing, their investments in geothermal energy, and the 1.6MW solar panel installation that provides 30% of the energy requirements of their corporate head quarters. He also mentions Google’s fleet of plug-in hybrid cars. One of the interests in this technology is the concept of Vehicle-to-Grid Transmission, where by energy is fed back into the grid from car batteries to improve energy management and cope with peak energy demands.

Google have also created a proposal — Clean Energy 2030 — to reduce the US’s dependence on fossil fuels. Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google presented this proposal last month.

Google and Clean Energy is a post from: Greensense