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Google headquarter going solar!

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Pix: Conceptual design of the planned solar installation, created using Google Earth and Sketch Up

Google after launching a few ‘green’ projects has planned to turn its headquarters in Mountain View, CA ‘green’. It will be installing solar panels becoming America’s largest solar electric installation on a single corporate site. According to solar power systems integrators EI Solutions, it will also be one of the largest such projects in the world.

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Pix: Andrew Beebe of EI Solutions (L), with Google co-founder Sergey Brin (R)

An installation of 9,212 solar panels, with a total capacity of 1.6 megawatts — enough to supply 1,000 average California homes – will be built at the Googleplex, EI informed in a press release. The panels will be built by Sharp Electronics and placed on rooftops and parking lot tops throughout the campus of Google.

Via: Boing Boing

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