GOOGLE BUYS GREEN SOLAR ENERGY TO POWER ITS DATA CENTRE IN DENMARK
"Our purpose is to advance the deployment of renewable energy as rapidly as possible and at the lowest cost possible. Today, large-scale solar parks are the most commercially scalable renewable energy potential available in Denmark. Companies are the key when it comes to fully realising this potential. They really make a difference when they buy new green energy from our solar parks. Google’s commitment to contribute positively to the deployment of new renewable energy capacity in Denmark by buying new green energy from our solar parks is an act of sustainable leadership that is a prerequisite for the green transition"
“Google is the world’s biggest corporate buyer of renewable energy with all the company’s energy consumption matched with renewables. Google has been carbon neutral since 2007, but is only just getting started. Denmark has really reached a milestone, as it is now possible to construct solar parks unsubsidised. It speaks volumes about how far we are as a country in reducing carbon emissions, which is something to be proud of as a Dane. In Google, we feel a great deal of responsibility building sustainability into everything we do, and solar parks like Better Energy’s in Næstved ensure that we can stay carbon neutral. It’s immensely important.”
Google was one of the first major companies to reach carbon neutrality and have become the world’s largest corporate buyer of renewable energy – and Google does not stop there. The company now aims to be the first major company to achieve 24/7 carbon-free energy by 2030 to push further to confront the magnitude of today’s climate challenge. To get there, Google are pursuing new carbon-free energy generation and storage technologies.
In Denmark, companies can obtain the right business conditions to be a part of the green transition such as easy access to government, utilities, a transparent CleanTech eco-system and policymakers to deploy those technologies and thereby drive system-level change.
On top of this, the Danish government has agreed upon an historic climate action plan to reduce CO2 emission. One of the central elements of the agreement is the establishment of the world’s first two energy islands, one artificial and one centred on the island of Bornholm, which together have the capacity to generate 5GW of power by 2030. The new deal also includes a plan to establish technology neutral funding mechanisms for carbon capture and Power-to-X technologies, which can turn power from the islands into green fuel.