Apple ‘ commitment to the environment is known around for all the users of the Cupertino-based company. Apple has several solar power plants that mainly supplies electricity to their data centers. But the energy that produce these plants with solar panels is more than necessary to meet the needs of the company and last June created a new company called Apple Energy LLC, which applied for a permit to be able to sell the excess energy in the electricity market. One month after the request, the energy of the United States Federal Commission recently granted permission to make Apple sell any excess electricity produced at the market prices.
After receiving this approval, Apple can now start to sell excess energy generated at its solar parks located in Nevada, Arizona and California. As we have read in SiliconBeat, who has published the news:
The federal energy regulators have approved application for Apple last Thursday to begin selling the excess energy at the market prices… The technology company has the capacity of generating 20 megawatts in Nevada, 50 megawatts in Arizona and 130 megawatts in California. This last, the of California, is capable of supply the energy needed by tens of thousands of homes. Additionally Apple will join First Solar to offer part of this excess energy to a few new apartments planned in the southeast of Monterey County, California.
But in addition to these plants we must add 14 megawatts of electricity that will produce solar cells located in new facilities that Apple will open earlier this year and that we now know as Campus 2, the work that we’ve seen in the last video they continue to roar ahead.
