Project Glass – interaktive Brille von Google. Taking cars off the road with our transportation programs. This is the third in a short series of posts and videos spotlighting our efforts to make Google greener.
In this post, we give you a glimpse at how our transportation programs help Googlers get to work while leaving their cars at home. -Ed. Google helps finance 'superhighway' for wind power. Internet search engine giant Google announced Tuesday that it is investing in a mammoth project to build an underwater "superhighway for clean energy" that would be able to funnel power from offshore wind farms to 1.9 million homes without overtaxing the already congested mid-Atlantic power grid.
The project, dubbed the Atlantic Wind Connection, calls for spending as much as $5 billion to create a 350-mile network of underwater cables stretching from northern New Jersey to Virginia. It would eliminate the need for offshore wind developers to build transmission lines of their own, easing what can be a barrier for such projects. Google is partnering with Good Energies, an environmentally focused international investment company based in New York, London and Switzerland, and Tokyo-based Marubeni to finance the project.
The project is led by Trans-Elect, an electric transmission company in Chevy Chase. Staff writer Debbi Wilgoren contributed to this report.