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Google Explains Why It Became an Energy Trader

Posted by kdawson on from the not-pulling-an-enron dept.

angry tapir writes "Google has explained how it might use its status as an energy-trading company to increase the use of renewable energy sources in its data centers. In February, the company's Google Energy subsidiary received approval from the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to buy and sell power on the wholesale market."

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  1. Re:What is Greenpeace smoking? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    My favourite Greenpeace press release contained the following sentence:

    "In the twenty years since the Chernobyl tragedy, the world's worst nuclear accident, there have been nearly [FILL IN ALARMIST AND ARMAGEDDONIST FACTOID HERE]"

    Yes - the bit in caps is theirs.

    [citation needed]