Clean power purchase contracts

1. Find news related to an environmental event that had created an impact in the world.

Clean power purchase contracts

Google has made three major power purchase agreements – long-term commitments to buy renewable wind power – to provide energy for two of its data centres in Iowa and Oklahoma.

Most recently, Google announced that it is purchasing 48 megawatts of clean, renewable wind power for its data centre in Oklahoma. Google faced a local electricity mix of more than 50% coal power in Oklahoma, but as one of the major electricity customers in the state, Google worked with the local utility to secure a new supply of renewable wind energy. Those kinds of agreements directly bring more renewable energy into the world and they provide certainty to wind farm developers, helping them to get crucial financing to build more projects.

2. Identify the steps of the scientific method in this event.

Observation – big company doing big damage to the world

Hyphotesis – Clean power will be a success to Microsoft.

Test – They started to purchase clean power to make the world greener

Theory- If a big company as Microsoft can do their work with clean power any company can.

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