In other states, utilities floated test balloons — offering up one or two units to test the regulatory waters — and their narratives reflected the results of those experiments. (synapse-energy.com)
Google will spend the next 12 months testing the balloons before introducing 20,000 of the devices commercially, according to The Guardian. (fortune.com)
While Google has been testing these balloons in the U.S. for the past two years — they have a test site in Winnemucca, Nev. — this is one of the rare times they've actually been spotted by a human being. (recode.net)