Google’s foray into promoting the building of off-shore transmission lines for wind energy farms off the US East Coast is a great idea. Googe does this with a 37.5% stake (alongwith Good Energies and Marubeni Corporation ) in the Atlantic Wind Connection (AWC) project of Trans-Elect .Trans-Elect is the implementing organization for AWC.
[ Note this post is from October 12, 2010 and is updated for formatting on May 19, 2021
If you get reliable (99% of the time) electricity, you probably live in the developed world where most places have electricity. A quarter of the world’s population (October 2010) – mostly in Africa and South Asia do not have power and the list of countries by electricity consumption is revealing as is the data across countries by income.
[Note: This post from October 11, 2010 was updated on May 22, 2021 for formatting issues]
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