Google has become the biggest corporate buyer of renewable energy in the world announcing 18 new energy deals.
The search and innovation giant has been a carbon-neutral company since 2007 and In 2017, became the first company of its size to match its entire annual electricity consumption with renewable energy.
Today in a blog post CEO Sundar Pichai said Google is 'taking another big step' by making the biggest corporate purchase of renewable energy in history.
The purchase is made up of a 1,600-megawatt (MW) package of agreements and includes 18 new energy deals. Together, these deals will increase Google's worldwide portfolio of wind and solar agreements by more than 40 percent, to 5,500 MW—equivalent to the capacity of a million solar rooftops.
Once all these projects come online, Google's carbon-free energy portfolio will produce more electricity than places like Washington D.C. or entire countries like Lithuania or Uruguay use each year.
