Over the past five years, Apple has invested heavily in green energy projects. At the moment, renewable sources are powered by data centers, retail stores and offices of the company. Moreover, according to the latest report of the Solar Energy Association (SEIA), Apple came out on top in the U. S. in terms of available capacity for solar energy production.
REPRESENTATIVES of SEIA note that before technology companies have never topped the rating of solar energy producers. According to the experts of the association at the moment the installed capacity for the production of solar energy, which is owned by Apple (taking into account local and remote sites), is 393 MW.
It is worth noting that formally in the past the SEIA rating was already headed by a technology company. We are talking about Amazon, which led in last year’s list. However, in the study of the Solar Energy Association it is classified as retail retailers.
This year, Amazon has a combined installed solar power capacity of 329.8 MW, and third-placed Target, which operates one of the largest retail chains in the United States, has 242.4 MW.
