Nine More Apple Suppliers Commit to 100 Percent Clean Energy
Production
As part of its commitment to combat climate change and create a
healthier environment, Apple® today announced its global facilities
are powered with 100 percent clean energy. This achievement
includes retail stores, offices, data centers and co-located
facilities in 43 countries — including the United States, the
United Kingdom, China and India. The company also announced nine
additional manufacturing partners have committed to power all of
their Apple production with 100 percent clean energy, bringing the
total number of supplier commitments to 23.
“We're committed to leaving the world better than we found it.
After years of hard work we're proud to have reached this
significant milestone,” said Tim Cook, Apple's CEO. “We’re going to
keep pushing the boundaries of what is possible with the materials
in our products, the way we recycle them, our facilities and our
work with suppliers to establish new creative and forward-looking
sources of renewable energy because we know the future depends on
it.”
Renewable Energy Projects
Apple and its partners are building new renewable energy
projects around the world, improving the energy options for local
communities, states and even entire countries. Apple creates or
develops, with utilities, new regional renewable energy projects
that would not otherwise exist. These projects represent a diverse
range of energy sources, including solar arrays and wind farms as
well as emerging technologies like biogas fuel cells, micro-hydro
generation systems and energy storage technologies.
Apple currently has 25 operational renewable energy projects
around the world, totaling 626 megawatts of generation capacity,
with 286 megawatts of solar PV generation coming online in 2017,
its most ever in one year. It also has 15 more projects in
construction. Once built, over 1.4 gigawatts of clean renewable
energy generation will be spread across 11 countries.
Since 2014, all of Apple’s data centers have been powered by 100
percent renewable energy. And since 2011, all of Apple’s renewable
energy projects have reduced greenhouse gas emissions (CO2e) by 54
percent from its facilities worldwide and prevented nearly 2.1
million metric tons of CO2e from entering the atmosphere.
Apple’s renewable energy projects include:
• Apple Park, Apple’s new headquarters in Cupertino, is now the
largest LEED Platinum-certified office building in North America.
It is powered by 100 percent renewable energy from multiple
sources, including a 17-megawatt onsite rooftop solar installation
and four megawatts of biogas fuel cells, and controlled by a
microgrid with battery storage. It also gives clean energy back to
the public grid during periods of low occupancy.
• Over 485 megawatts of wind and solar projects have been
developed across six provinces of China to address upstream
manufacturing emissions.
• Apple recently announced plans to build a 400,000-square-foot,
state-of-the-art data center in Waukee, Iowa, that will run
entirely on renewable energy from day one.
• In Prineville, Oregon, the company signed a 200-megawatt power
purchase agreement for an Oregon wind farm, the Montague Wind Power
Project, set to come online by the end of 2019.
• In Reno, Nevada, Apple created a partnership with the local
utility, NV Energy, and over the last four years developed four new
projects totaling 320 megawatts of solar PV generation.
• In Japan, Apple is partnering with local solar company Daini
Denryoku to install over 300 rooftop solar systems that will
generate 18,000 megawatt-hours of clean energy every year — enough
to power more than 3,000 Japanese homes.
• Apple’s data center in Maiden, North Carolina, is supported by
projects that generate 244 million kilowatt-hours of renewable
energy per year, which is equivalent to the energy used by 17,906
North Carolina homes.
• In Singapore, where land is scarce, Apple adapted and built
its renewable energy on 800 rooftops.
• Apple is currently constructing two new data centers in
Denmark that will run on 100 percent renewable energy from day
one.
Supplier Commitments
To get to 100 percent renewable energy for its own facilities,
the company worked to set an example for others to follow. Apple
also announced today that 23 of its suppliers are now committed to
operating on 100 percent renewable energy, including nine new
suppliers. Altogether, clean energy from supplier projects helped
avoid over 1.5 million metric tons of greenhouse gases from being
emitted in 2017 — the equivalent of taking more than 300,000 cars
off the road. In addition, over 85 suppliers have registered for
Apple’s Clean Energy Portal, an online platform that Apple
developed to help suppliers identify commercially viable renewable
energy solutions in regions around the world.
New supplier commitments include:
• Arkema, a designer of high-performance bio-based polymers,
which manufactures for Apple at its facilities in France, the
United States and China.
• DSM Engineering Plastics, which manufactures polymers and
compounds in the Netherlands, Taiwan and China that are used in
many Apple products, including connectors and cables.
• ECCO Leather, the first soft goods supplier to commit to 100
percent clean energy for its Apple production. The leather that
ECCO produces for Apple is of European origin, with tanning and
cutting occurring at facilities in the Netherlands and China.
• Finisar, a US industry-leading producer of optical
communication components and vertical-cavity surface-emitting
lasers (VCSELs), which power some of Apple’s most popular new
features like Face ID®, Portrait mode selfies and Animoji®.
• Luxshare-ICT, a supplier of accessories for Apple products.
Luxshare-ICT’s production for Apple is predominantly located in
Eastern China.
• Pegatron, which assembles a number of products, including
iPhone®, at its two factories in Shanghai and Kunshan, China.
• Quadrant, a supplier of magnets and magnetic components in a
number of Apple’s products.
• Quanta Computer, one of the first Mac® suppliers to commit to
100 percent renewable energy for Apple production.
• Taiyo Ink Mfg. Co., which produces solder masks for printed
circuit boards in Japan.
Apple revolutionized personal technology with the introduction
of the Macintosh in 1984. Today, Apple leads the world in
innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV.
Apple’s four software platforms — iOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS —
provide seamless experiences across all Apple devices and empower
people with breakthrough services including the App Store, Apple
Music, Apple Pay and iCloud. Apple’s more than 100,000 employees
are dedicated to making the best products on earth, and to leaving
the world better than we found it.
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