Google has made a investment and public commitment to being a “green” company. Meaning they source carpet and sofas made without PVC, paints without volatile organic compounds, and cafeteria food from local growers. Now Google has gone one step further, and begun to generate it’s own electricity, and rolled out the largest commercial solar deployment in the US.

The new 1.6MW installation covers most of the buildings (90%) at Google’s campus and extends even to shaded parking spaces. At the ETech conference in San Diego this week, Google’s Anthony Ravitz explained how Google did it, and why.
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