{"id":2154,"date":"2019-01-25T06:00:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T06:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/?p=2154"},"modified":"2019-03-04T10:44:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T10:44:22","slug":"google-signs-a-deal-with-finland-to-buy-renewable-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/future\/google-signs-a-deal-with-finland-to-buy-renewable-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Signs a Deal With Finland to Buy Renewable Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The deal was signed to get renewable energy from three new wind farms which are being constructed in Finland and that will power among its data centers.<\/p>\n<p>The prices are agreed with renewable energy developers CPC, Neoen, and WPD and are for jobs which won&#8217;t take advantage of government subsidies. A number of businesses have hurried in favor of inexpensive renewable energy to decrease prices and reduce their carbon footprint through so-called company power purchase agreements that empowers firms such as Google, Facebook, and Microsoft to purchase from the electricity generator.<\/p>\n<span class=\"seethis_lik\"><span>Also read:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/top-10\/it-companies-in-the-world\/\">Top 10 IT Companies In The World By Market Cap<\/a><\/span>\n<p>Google explained this is the first time that it buys subsidy-free renewable energy in Europe, which demonstrates that renewables have a price competitive with grid electricity in a growing number of places.<\/p>\n<p>Back in Europe, this is actually the 14th PPA&#8217;s that Google has entered for nearly 900 MW of wind and solar ability. The 3 new wind farms in Finland is going to be added into the grid which transmits power to Google&#8217;s data center in Hamina.<\/p>\n<p>This past year, we declared that Google had attained our 100% renewable energy purchasing target.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">This past year the tech firm had attained its own 100% renewable energy buying goal and it announces to climb as it ought to purchase renewable<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">energy to keep that amount.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wind is now controversial with traditional power in several nations. This past year, the amount of new company PPAs, exactly solar and wind, covered a fresh record with over 5 gigawatts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The deal was signed to get renewable energy from three new wind farms which are being constructed in Finland and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":2155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2154"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4261,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions\/4261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/2155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}