Google’s Solar Panel Project Helps Power 402 Dishwasher Cycles Per Day

Garett Rogers reminded me of Google’s Solar Panel Project, where Google installed about 9,000 solar panels at their headquarters to help power the offices. Google offers a status report of how much energy was generated from those panels. The latest reading says, “In the last 24 hours, Google produced 644 kilowatt-hours of electricity from the […]

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Garett Rogers reminded me of Google’s Solar Panel Project, where Google installed about 9,000 solar panels at their headquarters to help power the offices.

Google offers a status report of how much energy was generated from those panels. The latest reading says, “In the last 24 hours, Google produced 644 kilowatt-hours of electricity from the sun.” In other words, the solar panels generated enough power to complete 402 dishwasher cycles for that day.


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Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.

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