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Google, Biggest Corporate Buyer of Clean Power, Is Buying More

Google in deals for wind power in South Dakota, Iowa, Oklahoma
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By Brian Eckhouse

November 30, 2017 at 7:36 PM UTC

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November 30, 2017 at 10:15 PM UTC

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Google, the biggest corporate buyer of renewable energy, is buying even more -- 536 megawatts of wind power from four different power plants.

The Alphabet Inc. unit agreed to buy 196 megawatts of wind power from two Avangrid Inc. power plants under development in South Dakota, according to a statement Thursday. It also agreed to buy 200 megawatts of wind power from an EDF Renewable Energy project in Iowa, according to a separate statement Thursday. And it agreed to buy 140 megawatts of wind power from an Oklahoma wind project built by Enel SpA. Terms of the deals weren’t disclosed.