Google's wind power in Texas

Google's wind power in Texas

Over the past few years, Google has started to turn into an energy company - arenewable energy company - on top of everything else that it does. They'vemade countless investments in solar power and wind power, as well as moreexperimental clean energy projects. Their goal is to be powered by 100% renewable energy.

Now they've decided to buy the whole 240-megawatt production from the Happy Hereford wind farm outside of Amarillo, Texas, as soon as Chermac Energy, the Native-American-owned company that is building it, is done with construction in late 2014. This brings Google's total wind energy portfolio to more than 570 MW, which they say is "enough energy to power approximately 170,000 U.S. households."