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Google invests in North Dakota wind farm

05/11/2010

Google announced a $38.8 million investment into the "Peace Garden Wind" farm in North Dakota. The $190 million wind farm is run by NextEra Energy Resources and will be Google's first investment in an energy project instead of a company. The Peace Garden Wind farm will produce 170 megawatts of power annually. Some features of the wind farm include:

• 113 turbines
• Real time adjustments to the blade pitch angles
• Round the clock monitoring
• Blades with 15% more swept area

NextEra Energy Resources is a subsidiary of FPL Group (NYSE: FPL).