{"id":5783,"date":"2011-11-27T08:48:19","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T13:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/?p=5783"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:46:29","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:46:29","slug":"google-drops-alternative-energy-initiative-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/google-drops-alternative-energy-initiative-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Drops Alternative Energy Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <figure id=\"attachment_5776\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5776\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1126-googlesolar_full_380.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1126-googlesolar_full_380-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"1126-googlesolar_full_380\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1126-googlesolar_full_380-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1126-googlesolar_full_380.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5776\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Christian Science Monitor<\/figcaption><\/figure>One of the big news items in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\" target=\"_blank\">alternative energy<\/a> sector this week was that Google was pulling the plug on a program called Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal (RE<C), whereby the internet giant sought to drive down the cost of renewable energy. \n\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Through RE<C, we made several investments in companies working on potentially breakthrough technologies. For instance, we invested in companies like Brightsource Energy and eSolar to help expand their work on concentrating solar power technology, and in Potter Drilling to advance its innovative geothermal drilling technology\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, the company wrote on the RE<C <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.org\/rec.html\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We&#8217;re in the process of shutting down a number of products which haven&#8217;t had the impact we&#8217;d hoped for, integrating others as features into our broader product efforts and ending several which have shown us a different path forward\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, said Urz H\u00c3\u00b6lzle, Senior VP of Operations.<\/p>\n<p>Besides Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal, Google is also pulling the plug on Google Knol, Google Search Timeline, Google Gear, Google Friend Connect, Google Bookmarks Lists and Google Wave.<\/p>\n<p>The company added that at this point other institutions are better positioned than Google to take this work to the next level.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>You should follow us <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/energyrefuge\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li>No Related Posts Found! Go find some...<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the big news items in the alternative energy sector this week was that Google was pulling the plug on a program called Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal (RE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9165,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5783\/revisions\/9165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}