Google: Achieving Our 100% Renewable Energy Purchasing Goal and Going Beyond

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Link: Achieving Our 100% Renewable Energy Purchasing Goal and Going Beyond [Presentation: 13 page PDF]

 

...Google is the largest corporate renewable energy buyer on the planet, directly purchasing 2.6 gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy...

 

That's more than double the energy required to power the DeLorean and get Marty 'Back to the Future'

 

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But why always the mention of power (watts (do we presume watts per second or is the 2.6GW figure annual?)) with all the talk of energy (joules). Is this Fake News?

[Arthur]

is the 2.6GW figure annual?

According to the NYT, Google consumed 5.7 TWh of electricity per year (in 2015).

 

www.nytimes.com/2016/12/06/technology/google-says-it-will-run-entirely-on-renewable-energy-in-2017.html?_r=0

 

The 5.7 terawatt-hours of electricity Google consumed in 2015 "is equal to the output of two 500 megawatt coal plants", said Jonathan Koomey, a lecturer in the school of earth, energy and environmental sciences at Stanford. That is enough for two 140,000-person towns. "For one company to be doing this is a very big deal. It means other companies of a similar scale will feel pressure to move."