Sustainability Magazine December 2025 Issue 61 | Page 73

MICHAEL TERRELL
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MICHAEL TERRELL

TITLE: HEAD OF ADVANCED ENERGY COMPANY: GOOGLE INDUSTRY: TECHNOLOGY LOCATION: CALIFORNIA, US
Michael Terrell leads Google’ s efforts to develop advanced energy technologies and innovative market solutions to power the company’ s global data centre fleet. His team works across all aspects of the electricity system to deliver cuttingedge hardware, software and AI solutions that can be scaled across power grids worldwide.
Part of Google’ s broader clean energy portfolio The CCS agreement follows Google’ s strategy to commercialise multiple advanced energy technologies, including enhanced geothermal, advanced nuclear and long-duration energy storage.
“ We’ ve been chasing CCS opportunities for quite some time,” says Michael Terrell, Google’ s Head of Advanced Energy.
“ When we published our strategy to build a portfolio of solutions as part of our 24 / 7 carbon-free energy aspiration, we identified CCS as a critical technology, alongside advanced nuclear, enhanced geothermal, long duration storage, flexible demand and other techs.” sustainabilitymag. com 73