Google Investing Heavily in $5 Billion Atlantic Wind Power Line

Google is positioned to be a major investor in a propose infection line for seaward wind farm on the Atlantic seaboard , a bold architectural plan that could radically remold the electrical grid in the region .

The propose Atlantic Wind Connection , which would be $ 5 billion in all , would scarper from New Jersey to Norfolk , VA , collecting energy from offshore windfarms and redistributing it among mid - Atlantic commonwealth . The bold programme has been praised by regulator who say it could serve many smaller wind projects dotting the seacoast , and the mid - Atlantic wind farms it would mother would be less likely to raise aesthetical objections than similar task in Cape Cod and other areas .

Google has agreed to take a 37.5 pct stake in the 350 mile transmission line , along with Good Department of Energy ( also 37.5 % ) and Nipponese trading caller Marubeni , which has committed to a 15 percent stake .

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Trans - Elect , the infection job company organizing the task , hopes to start construction by 2013 . The first phase , a 150 - nautical mile stretch from Rehoboth Beach , Delaware to New Jersey , would cost $ 1.8 billion and could be completed as early as 2016 , when it could bug out redistributing power from state to state before the offshore air current farm were make out . The intact undertaking would n’t be discharge until 2021 at early .

The plan is an ambitious one , but regulators , investor , and environmentalists agree it ’s one of the most interesting of its type thus far . “ These variety of audacious idea might just be what we require to break through the wretched logjam , ” said Melinda Pierce , the deputy theater director for home campaigns at the grassroots environmental group Sierra Club . Hopefully the administrative work that needs to be done can keep up with that temerity . [ NYT ]

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