The world’s N1 Internet giant invests in renewable energy production.

In its commitment for perfecting the Internet search and speeding up the time, Google never stops. Now the world’s leader of the Internet technologies set its hands over such a crucial issue of the modern day world as sustainable energy production and offered an impressive solution.

Google Inc. has invested in the Atlantic Wind Connection, a cutting-edge technological project aimed at creating a wind-farm line along the East Coast of the United States. This huge backbone of wind turbines is to stretch across 350 miles and expected to produce more than 6,000 megawatts of renewable energy, which amounts to 60% of the capacity of all the wind farms installed across the USA last year. The mentioned volume is enough to serve about 2 mln American households.

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The line will be located 10-15 kilometers from the coast, where waters are relatively shallow and the winds are strong enough to generate energy. The farm will be connected to a land-based power-transmission system through the underwater cable network.

The AWC is estimated to be a $5 bln. project, and Google Inc. is said to invest 37.5% of that sum. Another 37.5% were invested by Good Energies, a New York based firm specializing in clean energy investments.

Google hopes the project will become «a superhighway for the clean energy”, if successful.

“This willingness to be ahead of the industry and invest in large scale innovative projects is core to our success as a company,” said Rick Needham, Google’s green business operations director.

Google experts also stress that, aside from being rather a useful task for a modern-day society, clean energy production seems to be a promising business due to the impressive financial returns in this area.

The AWC construction will begin in 2013, and the farm will start serving clean energy to the East-coast households by 2016.