Today, Apple announced that it will invest in the construction of two of the upcoming world's largest onshore wind turbines. This will be a source of clean and renewable energy, which in turn brings its whole supply chain and products a little bit closer to reaching Apple's plan of becoming carbon neutral.
Located somewhere near Esbjerg's whole Danish town, the approximately 200-meter-tall turbines are being expected to produce a total of 62-gigawatt hours every single year. This should be enough to power just shy of 20,000 homes and will, later on, act as a possible test site for more powerful offshore wind turbines.
The power that is produced at Esbjerg is expected to support Apple's data center located in Viborg, with the surplus energy later on going into the whole Danish grid.
Renewable energy and its harvesting
According to Apple's very own vice president of the Environment, Policy, and also Social Initiatives Lisa Jackson, the move towards fighting climate change really demands urgent action as well as a global partnership. It was also noted that the whole Viborg data center is currently powerful proof that it is possible to rise to the whole generational challenge.
It was also stated that investment in clean energy can deliver breakthrough innovations that later on bring clean energy as well as good jobs to businesses and the local communities. This is definitely an area noted that needs leadership for the sake of both the planet and future generations.
Just last month, Apple has announced its own plans to become completely carbon neutral across its entire massive business manufacturing supply chain and the whole product life cycle by the year 2030.
Apple's operations are already powered by its 100% renewable energy and its carbon neutrality. This whole new commitment will eventually mean that by the year 2030, every individual Apple device sold will actually have a zero climate impact. This also includes transitioning all of Apple's European-based suppliers towards renewable energy.
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Supplying clean energy to the public
The Germany-based supplier known as Varta has committed just this week to work the Apple production with its powerful 100% renewable energy. All across Europe, Apple's own suppliers are currently working towards other clean energy solutions for all of their Apple products that include both Henkel and Tesa SE, both based in Germany.
Other products include the DSM Engineering Materials based in the Netherlands, the STMicroelectronics that are based in Switzerland, and the Solvay that is based over in Belgium.
The solutions definitely include the DSM's wind power purchase agreement over in the Netherlands and the efficient solar carport in Morocco. Just like Solvay, companies are currently expanding their own use of renewable energy towards their broader operations just after joining Apple's own Supplier Clean Energy Program about five years ago.
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Written by Urian Buenconsejo
