BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Google's cheaper-than-coal target: "'With talented technologists, great partners and significant investments, we hope to rapidly push forward,' said Larry Page, Google co-founder. 'Our goal is to produce one gigawatt of renewable energy capacity that is cheaper than coal. We are optimistic this can be done in years, not decades.' One gigawatt can power a city the size of San Francisco, one of California's biggest cities. Google is already backing fuel-efficient cars. Google.org is giving out grants to help commercialise plug-in hybrids and fully electric vehicles. The company itself has a 1.6-megawatt solar panel system installed at its headquarters in Mountain View, California. Google said it expected to focus its early efforts on solar thermal technology, and would be spending 'tens of millions' of dollars in 2008 on the RE < C initiative. In the future, however, this support should grow considerably."
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