Google and General Electric said Wednesday that they would work together on technology and policy initiatives to promote the development of additional capacity in the electricity grid and of “smart grid” technologies to enable plug-in hybrids and to manage energy more efficiently. The companies said their goal is to make renewable energy more accessible and useful.
Google’s chief executive, Eric Schmidt, and G.E.’s chief executive, Jeffrey Immelt, alluded briefly to the partnership during a joint appearance at Google’s Zeitgeist conference, which is taking place at the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.
The two executives gave few details of their planned collaboration. In an interview following their presentation, Dan Reicher, director of climate change and energy initiatives at Google.org, an operating unit of Google, said the effort was in its planning stages and did not have a set budget.
“All this talk about renewable energy will not be realized if we do not build substantial additional transmission capacity,” Mr. Reicher said.
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