Apple announces progress toward carbon neutral goal, new energy projects
Apple has announced that more than 110 of its supply chain partners globally will switch to 100% renewable energy, a step toward its goal to become carbon neutral by 2030.
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The Apple manufacturing partners will move to clean energy for their Apple product. They plan to bring 8 gigawatts of renewable energy online, commitments that will avoid over 15 million metric tons of CO2e annually, the Cupertino tech giant said Tuesday.
In addition to the manufacturing partner commitments, Apple also said that it is investing directly into renewable energy projects to cover upstream emissions and an energy storage pilot project in California.
"We are firmly committed to helping our suppliers become carbon neutral by 2030 and are thrilled that companies who've joined us span industries and countries around the world, including Germany, China, the US, India, and France," said Lisa Jackson, Apple's vice president for Environment, Policy, and Social Initiatives.
Some of Apple's global energy projects include wind power purchase agreements in the Netherlands via partner DSM Engineering Materials and a solar carport established by STMicroelectronics in Morocco.
In the U.S., supply chain partners Alpha and Omega Semiconductor, Marian, The Chemours Company, and Trinseo have recently committed to Apple's carbon neutral goal. That's in addition to 15 suppliers based in China.
Apple is also constructing one of the largest battery projects in the U.S., dubbed California Flats. The company says it's a grid-scale energy storage project that will be able to store 240 megawatts of energy -- enough to power more than 7,000 homes for one day.
That battery project will support the company's existing 130-megawatt solar farm in California, which provides all of Apple's renewable energy in the state.
Back in July 2020, Apple announced that it plans to become 100% carbon neutral across all aspects of its business by 2030, including its supply chain. As of March 31, Apple says it has decreased its carbon footprint by 40% and has avoided more than 15 million metric tons of emissions.
"In a year like no other, Apple continued to work with a global network of colleagues, companies, and advocates to help make our environmental efforts and everything we do a force for good in people's lives -- and to work alongside the communities most impacted by climate change," Apple VP Jackson said.
Credit: Apple
The Apple manufacturing partners will move to clean energy for their Apple product. They plan to bring 8 gigawatts of renewable energy online, commitments that will avoid over 15 million metric tons of CO2e annually, the Cupertino tech giant said Tuesday.
In addition to the manufacturing partner commitments, Apple also said that it is investing directly into renewable energy projects to cover upstream emissions and an energy storage pilot project in California.
"We are firmly committed to helping our suppliers become carbon neutral by 2030 and are thrilled that companies who've joined us span industries and countries around the world, including Germany, China, the US, India, and France," said Lisa Jackson, Apple's vice president for Environment, Policy, and Social Initiatives.
Some of Apple's global energy projects include wind power purchase agreements in the Netherlands via partner DSM Engineering Materials and a solar carport established by STMicroelectronics in Morocco.
In the U.S., supply chain partners Alpha and Omega Semiconductor, Marian, The Chemours Company, and Trinseo have recently committed to Apple's carbon neutral goal. That's in addition to 15 suppliers based in China.
Apple is also constructing one of the largest battery projects in the U.S., dubbed California Flats. The company says it's a grid-scale energy storage project that will be able to store 240 megawatts of energy -- enough to power more than 7,000 homes for one day.
That battery project will support the company's existing 130-megawatt solar farm in California, which provides all of Apple's renewable energy in the state.
Back in July 2020, Apple announced that it plans to become 100% carbon neutral across all aspects of its business by 2030, including its supply chain. As of March 31, Apple says it has decreased its carbon footprint by 40% and has avoided more than 15 million metric tons of emissions.
"In a year like no other, Apple continued to work with a global network of colleagues, companies, and advocates to help make our environmental efforts and everything we do a force for good in people's lives -- and to work alongside the communities most impacted by climate change," Apple VP Jackson said.
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…Gates is further along that road than “visionary” Apple, which is more interested in virtue signaling and greenwashing.
The second problem is that the costing of nuclear technology never fully accounts for disposal of the spent fuel. In other words, nuclear energy is “competitive” only if you ignore the cost of disposal of fuel and the reactors etc at the end of life. A nuclear reactor lasts about 50 years. All around the world, at nuclear power plants like Fukushima, the spent fuel is lying in pools, just sitting there. Why don’t they dispose of the fuel? Too expensive. What are they waiting for? The government to do something about it—in other words the taxpayer must pay to dispose nuclear waste in deep tunnels under the earth. Cost of disposal and securing? Incalculable (best guess), because you have to sit and watch over it forever. Many power plants are run by private companies with no intention of incurring the cost of disposal. Privatise the profits, socialise the costs.
The third problem with nuclear power is that it is very dangerous and requires the support of a military industrial complex. In other words, you need a highly militarised and policed society in order to secure the nuclear industry. In other words we, citizens, are required to cede some of our personal political freedoms in order to afford such a dangerous technology in our midst. Nuclear power is looked on favourably by military industrial complexes or by totalitarian regimes. It is inherently secretive and security-obsessed, for obvious reasons. In contrast: solar and wind power, for example, have issues, but they have no equivalent risks, they can be implemented at small-scale by individual citizens in your backyard on your roof etc. They are inherently more democratic.