Launched at Climate Week NYC 2014 and now with 73 members, RE100 believes that switching the private sector’s energy demand, which accounts for about half of the world’s electricity consumption, to renewables will accelerate the transformation of the global energy market and aid the transition to a low carbon economy. The latter includes Wells Fargo, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Dalmia Cement, cloud computing companies VMware Inc. and Rackspace Inc. That’s equal to the energy use of over 12,000 Arizona homes.
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Jackson said Apple is working with its global suppliers to install more than 4 gigawatts of new clean energy – including 2 gigawatts in China – by 2020.
Last week, manufacturing giant General Motor also joined the alliance.
“Apple has taken another important step to deliver on its commitment to powering its corner of the internet with 100 percent renewable energy”, said Gary Cook, Greenpeace senior IT analyst.
America’s top tech companies have been going green in a big way, so much so that the availability of clean energy resources is a key consideration in where they locate corporate offices and data centers. EP100 is definitely the junior campaign, but can already lay claim to corporate additions from India, China, Europe, and the United States.
This week, the company announced that it has joined RE100, a worldwide renewable energy initiative, and declared that it is committed to driving clean energy throughout its supply chain and hopes to eventually make it entirely renewable.
“It is widely acknowledged that we will not succeed in keeping a global temperature rise below two degrees without significant corporate leadership on energy, and that is what we are seeing here today”, said Damian Ryan, Acting CEO of The Climate Group.
According to Mashable, Apple’s global supply chain is responsible for approximately 77 percent of its total carbon dioxide emissions.
93% of Apple’s global operations in 23 countries were already running on renewable power previous year. The clean energy commitment by Lens was combined with a zero waste compliance agreement for all of its final assembly sites. This covers 14 manufacturing facilities across 8 countries by the end of 2018.
Catcher Technology, one of Apple’s main suppliers for aluminum iPhone casings, similarly pledged to use 100 percent renewable energy for its Apple-related production within two years.
The culmination of Apple supplier commitments will represent more than 1.5 billion kWh per year of clean energy in manufacturing by the end of 2018.
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Apple is also working toward an earlier goal to power 100 percent of its direct operations using renewable energy, such as wind and solar power.
