The Google-backed clean energy projects around the world [map]

May 30, 2013: 05:37 PM ET

(gigaom.com) -- Over the past at least six years Google has poured more than $1 billion into a Hoover’s Dam worth (2 GW) of clean energy projects, as well as funded a few early stage cleantech startups (and even acquired one recently). Earlier today, as part of its first clean power investment in Africa, Google announced that it has invested $12 million into a solar panel farm in South Africa.

We mapped out Google-backed clean power projects, with links to our coverage to see how much the company is investing, in what and where.

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