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Google Inc.
is investing another $102 million in a wind energy project in the Mojave Desert, adding to an earlier $55 million investment.
Along with Mountain View, Calif.-based Google (Nasdaq:GOOG)'s commitment, Citi also announced adding another $102 million to its earlier $55 million investment.
The hot and blustery spot is perfect for the wind project, said developer Terra-Gen Power, an affiliate of ArcLight Capital Partners and Global Infrastructure Partners. The center is expected to ultimately have a generate 1,550 megawatts, or nearly double the capacity of the largest wind farm in the U.S.
“We’re excited to make this additional investment in the Alta Wind Energy Center because the project harnesses a proven local wind resource through a clean power transmission line, to help California meet its ambitious renewable energy goals while using an innovative financial structure that may attract more investment in renewable energy projects from new types of investors,” said Rick Needham, director of Green Business Operations at Google.
The money is the Internet giant's latest infusion for clean energy projects. Earlier this month, officials announced creating a $280 million fund to finance residential solar projects in several states, including Texas.
Click here to read the press release.
Posted by Elizabeth Kim. Contact her at 408.299.1835 or ekim@bizjournals.com.
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Wohl eine exzellente Werbung...mit Ausichtplattform und Informationen zur Anlage...
Google und Citibank investieren in Windenergie und man liest solche Meldungen immer öfter, die Energiewende kommt....
Bloomberg
By Will Wade
(Adds potential return in seventh paragraph.)
June 22 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc., the world’s biggest Internet search engine, and Citigroup Inc. will provide $204 million in additional funding for the largest U.S. wind farm.
The companies will each invest $102 million in the 1,550- megawatt Alta Wind Energy Center being developed by Terra-Gen Power LLC, an affiliate of ArcLight Capital Partners LLC and Global Infrastructure Partners, they said today in a statement. That’s in addition to $55 million each that the companies agreed in May to provide to the project in Tehachapi.
The funding gives Google and Citigroup a source of long- term revenue that’s “better than Treasuries,” said Amy Grace, North American wind analyst for Bloomberg New Energy Finance in New York. When complete, the California wind farm will be bigger than rival operations in Oregon and Texas.
Wind farms are “a very stable way to invest and get a good return,” Grace said today in an interview. Google and Citigroup “have the capital. They need to make it work.”
The wind farm is being built in stages. The first five stages have a capacity of 720 megawatts and are complete, with 300 more megawatts expected to go into operation this year.
Citigroup and Google will now fund the fifth stage with today’s investment. Their prior support was for the fourth. Both investments are leveraged leases in which the backers purchase the projects as they go into service and lease them back to Terra-Gen, which will manage the operations.
The return on a straight equity investment in a wind project is typically about 10 percent, and a leveraged lease may be “in the mid-teens,” Grace said.
Texas, Oregon
When complete, the Alta project will be the biggest wind farm in the U.S., Grace said, almost double the size of the 781.5-megawatt Roscoe Wind Farm currently in operation in Texas. It will also be larger than Caithness Energy LLC’s 845-megawatt Shepherds Flat wind farm in Oregon, a $2 billion project that’s expected to be complete next year. Google agreed in April to invest $100 million in Shepherds Flat.
The Alta Wind project will sell all of its electricity to Edison International utility Southern California Edison Co.
--With assistance from Steven Fromm in New York. Editors: Randall Hackley, Todd White
To contact the reporter on this story: Will Wade in New York at wwade4@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Reed Landberg at landberg@bloomberg.net
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