"Do you own the building? Do you lease it? How long is the lease? Who has what kind of roof rights? What kind of work disruption will there be? There are a lot of issues."īut once the months of discussions and research were over, the construction was quick. "When looking at a large-scale commercial solar project, there are a lot of things you need to ask," explains Beebe. Once Google made the decision to go solar, EIS spent months learning everything possible about Google's corporate campus. EIS learned what Google was trying to accomplish from a corporate perspective, and Google learned what was possible in the world of solar. "They wanted to do something meaningful, something that was big, had an impact and that made sense." The enormous project started with a phone call, and the two companies began educating each other. "I think, as with a lot of companies, they were very focused on making sure they didn't do something that someone might call window dressing," says Andrew Beebe, president of EIS. With the help of EI Solutions (EIS) they found an environmental and economic answer they were looking for. Their goal was to take a step toward reducing their environmental impact, and at the same time deliver positive results for their bottom line. Google set out to do something extraordinary-something that was good for customers, employees and the planet. This wasn't one of those projects that started small and grew out of control. The project will generate 1.6 megawatts-the equivalent of powering about 1,000 average California homes. If you were to Google "world's largest corporate solar project," you'd likely find yourself right back at Google, where more than 9,000 solar photovoltaic panels covering seven acres have been installed on the company's corporate campus, in Mountain View, California. Internet search engine giant Google is out to take steps towards reducing the company's environmental impact, an initiative that resulted in EI Solutions installing the world's largest corporate solar project-more than 9,000 solar PV panels covering seven acres-at the Google campus in California.