Google power

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Thursday 14/10/2010 Page: 7

INTERNET search engine Google has announced that it is investing in a mammoth project to build an underwater "superhighway for clean energy" that would funnel power from offshore wind farms to 1.9 million homes without overtaxing the already congested mid-Atlantic power grid. The Atlantic Wind Connection calls for spending as much as $US5 billion ($A5.1 billion) to create a 563-kilometre network of underwater cables from New Jersey to Virginia. The grid will have the capacity to transmit 6000MWs of offshore wind power to shore.