| Posted on May 6, 2010 at 10:59 AM | 
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We knew it was coming and it’s finally here…Google has entered the energy generation market. Famous for their huge solar pv effort at their Mountain View headquarters (click here for a look), Google has jumped further in to energy generation with an almost $40million investment in two wind farms in North Dakota, USA.
Perhaps most interesting here is not the investment itself but the fact that the turbines will use cutting edge blade angle adjustment technology to maximise efficiency and output. Evidently they see huge potential in this design and here’s hoping they help speed its route to market. This may also be the next step in unifying their various energy-related efforts, such as their Powermeter initiative, in to something much bigger – can a consumer launch of the quietly-registered Google Energy be far behind?
If there is one company that could shake up the energy markets, it’s Google…
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