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Just announced: Apple now runs on 100% renewable energy.

• giarc 8y ago
  Including fabrication and production? Or just their office buildings?
  • ralmeida 8y ago
    At least office buildings and datacenters, unclear (to me) about factories.
    • giarc 8y ago
      Unlikely factories as they don't belong to Apple (ex. Foxconn) so maybe a bit of greenwash involved here. Regardless, a step in the right direction.
      • ralmeida 8y ago
        I think it’s unlikely too, though they may buy measured or estimated energy consumption in ‘green credits’ (i.e. provide the same amount of clean energy back into the same grid), as pointed out in a sibling comment.
• samstave 8y ago
  They said all of their facilities, worldwide... Are apple stores considered a "facility"? Because, I cant see how the apple store in the Valley Fair Mall can get its own apple-power feed?
  • walrus01 8y ago
    It's not like Apple or any other entity doing this is building new last mile electrical distribution, or putting new PV on the roof of malls. They're buying "credits" for kWh from solar/wind/hydroelectric generation sources, which feed into the same electrical grid operator, matching the number of kWh that the meter for the store consumes in a month.
  • mavhc 8y ago
    They just calculate what they use, and buy that much from renewable suppliers, there's no separate feed for renewable power
  • Moter8 8y ago
    The claim "running on renewable energy" is false. See for example: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/04/10/apple-caught-fibbing-about-running-on-100-renewable-energy/ https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/04/10/apple-caught-fibbing-... https://www.fastcompany.com/40554151/how-apple-got-to-100-renewable-energy-the-right-way https://www.fastcompany.com/40554151/how-apple-got-to-100-re... https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/9/17216656/apple-renewable-energy-worldwide-climate-change https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/9/17216656/apple-renewable-e... (unordered list of sources)