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Google announced its biggest deal yet to purchase offshore wind energy for its data centers in Europe, signing power purchase agreements to support two new wind farms off the coast of the Netherlands. It’s part of Google’s plan to match all of its data center electricity consumption with clean energy generation on a 24/7 basis by 2030. To do that, the company will need to help get more renewable energy, including offshore wind, pulsing through power grids where it operates. It shared… Source link

COPENHAGEN, Nov 30 (Reuters) – Danish offshore wind developer Orsted (ORSTED.CO) on Tuesday said it has secured a 12-year power purchase agreement with Google (GOOGL.O), which aims to power all its data centres and offices using solely carbon-free electricity by 2030. The U.S. tech giant will take 50 megawatt (MW) of output from Orsted’s planned 900 MW Borkum Riffgrund 3 wind farm in the German North Sea. While making it possible for big firms to source green power, such deals also provide a… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Oil flipped between small gains and losses as U.S. offshore producers assess damage from Hurricane Ida and as investors focus on an OPEC+ meeting that will likely lead to a further output revival. Futures in New York earlier fell as much as 1.6% Monday. Gasoline futures spiked more than 4% earlier in the session before paring its advance. While Gulf of Mexico producers had shut in about 1.7 million barrels a day of crude output ahead of the storm, refineries in Louisiana may be… Source link