“Yesterday, 9to5Mac.com reported that Apple Inc has founded a new, fully owned, subsidiary known as Apple Energy and that this entity had applied to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC regulates power companies) to be able to sell electricity and other power grid services to anyone that is not a public utility,” John Fitzgerald Weaver writes for Electrek.
“Does this mean that you can now buy clean electricity made on the roof of the Apple Spaceship?” Weaver writes. “Unless you are a large corporate electricity user within 10-30 miles, probably not.”
“However if we step back and take a broader view, something interesting is happening – the likes of Apple, Google, Ikea and others including even Walmart are showing us a small piece of the future of much smarter electricity grid owned by many instead of the few,” Weaver writes. “Apple also has the ability to sell ‘capacity, and certain ancillary services.’ Ancillary services, in our brave new world, can come from things like batteries in electric cars that are parked while waiting to head to their next customer.”
Tons more in the full article – recommended – here.
MacDailyNews Take: Is Apple Energy a matter of Apple saying, “it’s there, we’re making it anyway, better to sell it that to waste it” or is there more to this than meets the eye?
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Apple Inc. forms Apple Energy company; looks to sell electricity into grid and perhaps directly to consumers – June 9, 2016