Google injects US$10m into eSolar

| January 30, 2008 | 0 Comments

Google announced that it has made a US$10 million investment in eSolar, a California-based solar thermal power developer first identified as a partner in the Internet search giants RE < C initiative.

The investment was part of an announcement by Google.org of core initiatives to combat climate change, poverty and emerging threats. More than US$25 million in grants and investments were announced.

The Google.org initiative includes; work to better predict and prevent disasters and crisis; improve public services, especially for the poor; lower transaction costs to invest in SMEs and provide smaller corporations access to larger financial markets; and to accelerate the commercialization of plug-in vehicles.




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Category: Climate change, Global energy, Renewables

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