Google's headquarters in Mountain View, CA will soon become America's largest solar electric installation on a single corporate site, and one of the largest such projects in the world, according to solar power systems integrators EI Solutions.
The solar firm will build an installation at the Googleplex with a total capacity of 1.6 megawatts ("enough to supply 1,000 average California homes," according to EI's press release). Equipment will include 9,212 solar panels by Sharp Electronics, to be placed on rooftops and parking lot tops throughout Google's campus.
3D rendering: here, and EI Solutions will present these renderings at the Solar
Power 2006 expo in San Jose this week.
Top image (full-size): Conceptual design of the planned solar installation, created using Google Earth and Sketch Up.
Lower image: (full-size): Andrew Beebe of EI Solutions (L), with Google co-founder Sergey Brin (R).
