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Tag: solar power

Apple’s massive California solar farm will store power in Tesla’s ‘megapack’ batteries

Friday, April 2, 2021 4:42 pm38 Comments

Apple announced Wednesday that it’s building a massive battery storage project at a Northern California solar farm. The battery packs will come from Tesla…

Over 110 of Apple suppliers move to 100 percent renewable energy for their Apple production

Wednesday, March 31, 2021 9:20 am19 Comments

Apple today announced over 110 of its manufacturing partners around the world are moving to 100 percent renewable energy for their Apple…

Apple and other large tech firms can help power the switch to renewable energy

Monday, December 31, 2018 11:15 amMonday, December 31, 201832 Comments

Apple’s entire worldwide operation runs on 100 percent renewable energy…

Apple plans major expansions for Nevada, Arizona data centers

Wednesday, May 10, 2017 9:25 pm2 Comments

Apple is looking to bolster its services backend with major expansions at existing data centers…

NV Energy announces solar agreement with Apple in Nevada

Wednesday, January 25, 2017 3:27 pmWednesday, January 25, 201725 Comments

NV Energy and Apple announced today they have reached an agreement to build 200 megawatts of additional solar energy in Nevada…

Apple’s secret solar plant in Arizona could supply 12,500 homes with power

Wednesday, September 21, 2016 12:01 pmWednesday, September 21, 20166 Comments

Apple Inc. has built a 300-acre solar power plant in Florence to make up for the electricity used in its Mesa data center…

Apple becomes a green energy supplier

Wednesday, August 24, 2016 11:38 am2 Comments

The words are stenciled on the front of the Apple Store, a glass box sandwiched between a nondescript…

Apple patent application reveals energy harvesting to augment battery power for iOS devices

Thursday, August 18, 2016 4:25 pmThursday, August 18, 20167 Comments

Today, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that generally relates…

Apple Energy gets federal approval to sell power

Thursday, August 4, 2016 3:29 pmThursday, August 4, 201616 Comments

Apple Inc., which spent $850 million last year on a 130-megawatt solar farm near San Francisco, can begin selling power…

Apple Energy: The implications are mind-boggling

Thursday, June 16, 2016 1:25 pm26 Comments

Last week, Apple quietly dropped a bombshell in the energy industry…

Apple Energy: Is this Apple running its own microgrids or more?

Friday, June 10, 2016 2:02 pmFriday, June 10, 20167 Comments

Appel Inc. has formed a new, fully owned, subsidiary known as Apple Energy…

Apple approved to use landfill gas to create electricity using fuel cells in North Carolina

Friday, June 10, 2016 9:07 am18 Comments

The leases allows for the construction of a renewable energy facility that harnesses landfill gas…

Apple Inc. forms Apple Energy company; looks to sell electricity into grid and perhaps directly to consumers

Thursday, June 9, 2016 2:05 pm26 Comments

Apple has quietly created an energy subsidiary…

Apple will run all its operations in Singapore on solar power

Tuesday, November 17, 2015 10:58 amTuesday, November 17, 20159 Comments

Apple has struck a deal to power all of its Singapore operations with renewable energy…

Apple CEO Cook: Corporations must help solve ‘climate change’

Tuesday, November 10, 2015 8:55 amTuesday, November 10, 2015132 Comments

Apple CEO Tim Cook attended the inauguration of the academic year at Bocconi University in Milan…

Apple backs White House international climate change pledge

Monday, October 19, 2015 2:56 pmMonday, October 19, 201538 Comments

Apple Inc. has joined a White House initiative to curb greenhouse gas emissions and invest in clean energy…

Apple joins Obama’s American Business Act on Climate pledge

Monday, July 27, 2015 2:28 pmMonday, July 27, 201594 Comments

Some of the largest companies from across the American economy who are standing with the Obama Administration…

Apple invents method to integrate solar power cells into devices

Thursday, July 16, 2015 10:06 am8 Comments

Apple has a new invention that could use solar cells integrated into…

Apple’s climate change efforts might be based on misguided idealism

Tuesday, April 21, 2015 10:38 amTuesday, April 21, 2015132 Comments

Under the leadership of Tim Cook, Apple has been a vocal advocate for certain policies…

Apple highlights environmentally-friendly projects with new video

Monday, April 20, 2015 9:38 amMonday, April 20, 201515 Comments

Apple, following last year’s Earth Day, again has highlighted…

Apple invests in China solar project

Thursday, April 16, 2015 3:57 pmThursday, April 16, 201517 Comments

Apple is investing in Chinese solar power…

Apple has quietly doubled its Reno data center site

Tuesday, March 31, 2015 9:39 pmWednesday, April 1, 20159 Comments

Apple has greatly expanded its data center near Reno, Nevada, about four hours…

Arizona House OKs tax credits and exemption for Apple data center

Wednesday, February 25, 2015 9:56 amWednesday, February 25, 201517 Comments

The House approved a bill Tuesday that expands a $5 million sales tax credit and also exempts Apple’s facility from sales taxes on electricity or natural gas…

The best Apple-compatible accessories seen at CES day one

Wednesday, January 7, 2015 10:27 amWednesday, January 7, 20153 Comments

Most noteworthy for owners of Apple’s new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus were the arrival of…

Apple patents solar panels integrated into flexible multitouch displays

Tuesday, May 20, 2014 8:30 am5 Comments

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday granted Apple…

For Apple iPhone, bigger is surely better

Monday, March 24, 2014 3:29 pmMonday, March 24, 201413 Comments

Apple seems headed for a second-half sales bonanza…

New leak may finally reveal Apple’s iPhone 6 specs and design

Monday, March 24, 2014 2:57 pmMonday, March 24, 201413 Comments

Two sizes – 4.7 inches and 5.5 inches…

Arizona OKs tax break for Apple sapphire glass plant

Wednesday, November 20, 2013 5:30 pmWednesday, November 20, 201325 Comments

The fate of the high-profile deal seemed to hang in the balance…

Incentives to lure Apple’s sapphire glass plant to Arizona revealed

Tuesday, November 19, 2013 5:28 pmTuesday, November 19, 201312 Comments

The Arizona Commerce Authority has offered Apple…

Apple patent for flexible display slap bracelet ‘iWatch’ could fire up stock again

Friday, February 22, 2013 4:01 pmFriday, February 22, 201319 Comments

Morgan Stanley estimate that iWatch may add about $2.50 to $4.00 per share…

Apple files another patent application for solar-paneled iPhones, iPods, and iPads

Wednesday, February 6, 2013 2:35 pm4 Comments

The U.S. Patent and Trademark office published a patent application…

Apple wins their sixth solar power patent, anti-theft tech patent

Tuesday, July 10, 2012 5:33 pmTuesday, July 10, 20126 Comments

The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 23 newly granted patents…

Greenpeace, others block train tracks to protest Apple, Duke Energy coal use

Friday, May 4, 2012 8:56 am74 Comments

Seven people were taken into custody in Catawba County after blocking the train tracks…

Apple rejects Greenpeace claims after group stages protest on roof of Apple’s European HQ in Ireland

Wednesday, April 18, 2012 11:47 amWednesday, April 18, 201225 Comments

Apple has rejected Greenpeace’s claims that it is not focused on renewables…

Apple, get your carbon footprint off my neck

Tuesday, March 13, 2012 12:01 pmTuesday, March 13, 2012287 Comments

Apple is throwing away $44 million of stockholder money to pacify delusional fans of green energy…

Apple granted 2nd solar power patent this year and 19 more

Tuesday, September 20, 2011 12:47 pm7 Comments

“The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 20 newly granted Apple patents…

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