LINDA WERTHEIMER, Host: NPR's business news starts with Google's big plan for offshore wind.</s>LINDA WERTHEIMER, Host: This is not the first green energy project for Google. The company has also invested in wind farms in North Dakota. At full capacity, the planned cable would carry about 6,000 megawatts of wind power, enough to light up about two million homes. Construction could start by 2013.
Google has formed a partnership with two other firms to build underwater power cables off the Atlantic coast from New Jersey to Virginia. The idea is to connect offshore wind farms — which are still to be built — to the East Coast electrical grid.