{"id":801,"date":"2018-04-25T12:02:09","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T12:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zoldenergiablog.hu\/en\/?page_id=801"},"modified":"2018-04-25T12:02:09","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T12:02:09","slug":"google-and-apple-lead-the-corporate-charge-toward-100-renewable-energy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/zoldenergiablog.hu\/en\/archive\/google-and-apple-lead-the-corporate-charge-toward-100-renewable-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Google And Apple Lead The Corporate Charge Toward 100% Renewable Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"

America\u2019s technology corporate giants have led the corporate renewables procurement trend, but two of the biggest names in tech just reached a new mark:\u00a0Apple and Google are now both 100% powered by renewable energy<\/span>.<\/p>\n

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That means the company behind the ubiquitous iPhone and iPad as well as the website that\u2019s synonymous with Internet searches are now wholly powered by wind, solar, or another non-fossil fuel.<\/p>\n

But these two tech giants aren\u2019t alone \u2013 they\u2019re leading an international trend among the world\u2019s corporations to invest in renewable energy projects and sign long-term contracts for clean electricity from utilities. This trend is opening up\u00a0new markets for renewable energy, leading corporate suppliers to decarbonize, and saving money on corporate bottom lines \u2013 and it isn\u2019t slowing down anytime soon.<\/p>\n

Getting to 100% Through Rapid Renewable Energy Growth<\/strong><\/p>\n

Google announced its accomplishment in early April, when 2017 energy use accounting confirmed the company had purchased more electricity from wind and solar projects than it had used in all operations worldwide, including its offices and 15 electricity-hungry data centers.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor every kilowatt-hour of electricity we consumed, we purchased a kilowatt-hour of renewable energy from a wind or solar farm that was built specifically for Google,\u201d\u00a0said Google Senior Vice President Urs H\u00f6lzle. \u201cThis makes us the first public Cloud, and company of our size, to have achieved this feat.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Google\u2019s renewable energy supplies started with its first corporate wind energy contract\u00a0in 2010, grew from\u00a044% of total supply\u00a0in 2015 to 57% in 2016, and reached 100% last year. This rapid growth has created enormous demand for new renewable energy projects \u2013 Google\u2019s contracts to purchase 3 gigawatts (GW) of wind and solar electricity have generated more than $3 billion in new capital investment \u2013 and it buys the most renewable energy of any corporate purchaser worldwide.<\/p>\n

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Cumulative corporate renewable energy purchased in the U.S., Europe, and Mexico<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Google\u2019s 3 GW of renewable energy comes from 26 projects across the world, and it has created an outsized impact in the United States \u2013 around 2.4 GW of new U.S. wind and solar generation are directly attributable to Google\u2019s power purchase agreements (PPAs), according to the Rocky Mountain Institute\u2019s\u00a0Business Renewables Center (BRC) deal tracker.<\/p>\n

Not to be outdone, Apple\u00a0announced a week later\u00a0that its global facilities across 43 countries \u2013 all retail stores, offices, data centers, and co-located facilities \u2013 are now powered with 100% renewable energy. Like Google, Apple\u2019s renewable energy supplies have grown rapidly from 16% in 2010 to 96% in 2016, and its data centers have been at 100% renewables since 2014.<\/p>\n

The company now has 626 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy generation capacity online\u00a0across 25 projects worldwide, added 286 MW of solar energy capacity in 2017 \u2013 the most it has added in any one year \u2013 and has 15 projects under construction.<\/p>\n

When all existing and pending projects are online, Apple will have 1.4 GW of renewable energy capacity spread across 11 countries. \u201cWe want to put new, clean power on the grid so that we\u2019re not sucking up all the clean energy that\u2019s there,\u201d said Apple VP of environment, policy, and social initiatives Lisa Jackson\u00a0in an interview<\/a>\u00a0with\u00a0Fast Company<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Source:\u00a0https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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