Google Stop's R&d In Renewable Energy

Google has procured enough renewable energy, and
. . . efficiency to offset its carbon emissions.
Meanwhile, the levelized cost of renewables has come down,
. . . to rival the cost of building new coal plants.

But, "Trying to combat climate change,
. . . exclusively with today’s renewable energy technologies,
. . . simply won’t work;
. . . we need a fundamentally different approach,"
. . . wrote Google's Ross Koningstein and David Fork in a piece,
. . . published yesterday in IEEE's Spectrum.

Koningstein and Fork hint at one possible focus:
. . . technologies like power electronics,
. . . that can efficiently control the grid and
. . . enable higher penetrations of distributed generation.

In July, Google unveiled a $1-million challenge.
. . . to build an inverter 1/10 the size of existing devices.

11-19-2014 Source:  Google Stop's R&D in Renewable Energy