More than 9,200 panels will be installed on a US$3.9 million hi-tech office complex nicknamed the Googleplex.
According to the Toronto Star October 18, 2006 edition, Google's solar panels will produce about 1.6 megawatts of electricity. This alternative energy source could power about 1,000 homes.
Google says that solar energy can eventually provide up to 30% of the company's power at the million-square-foot campus in Mountain View, a suburb south of San Francisco.
Solar energy gives another alternative fuel that may help reduce America's dependency on Middle East oil in international trade.
El Solutions from Pasadena, California is the company managing the solar-panel project. Entrepreneur Bill Gross, who developed the concept to link ads to Google search results, leads the alternative energy project.
