Achi news desk-
The solar project will be able to generate a total of 14.4 megawatts of power.
If you thought Apple was only interested in using India as a manufacturing base for its products – particularly iPhones – and a market for its range of digital technology items, you’d be wrong. The Cupertino-based MNC has formed a joint venture with renewable energy developer CleanMax to generate its own energy for its Indian operations from clean sources with the aim of becoming a carbon-neutral entity across its value chain by the end of this decade. It will be used to operate the company’s offices and the two retail stores in Mumbai and New Delhi.
CleanMax is a leading company for the production of renewable electricity with more than 150 corporate customers. The company has already installed more than 600 rooftop solar projects for various companies, with a total rooftop generation capacity exceeding 350 MW in India, UAE and Thailand.
As expected, the solar project will be able to generate a total of 14.4 megawatts of electricity. It will be used to operate the company’s offices and the two retail stores in Mumbai and New Delhi. However, the Cupertino-based company did not provide financial details about the project.
Significantly, this announcement by Apple comes against a global increase in the company’s investments in environmentally friendly energy and water. Around the World by Apple. Currently, the company generates more than 18 GW of clean electricity to power its global operations and manufacturing supply chain. What’s interesting is that this amount of energy is 300% greater than what it produced in 2022, the company revealed.
Not only electricity production, Apple is also moving forward to realize another green goal – to renew 100% of the fresh water that the company uses in corporate activities in water-stressed places. It has initiatives to replenish fresh water reservoirs in Telangana and Maharashtra, Apple said.
In 2023, the company realized its goal of fully filling water for the company’s operations in this country. For this he has a relationship with the Uptime Catalyst Facility. Last year, the Apple-powered project provided 2.3 million liters of clean, affordable drinking water to various communities through more than 300 water stations run by local entrepreneurs.
The company’s program for responsible water stewardship was launched in 2021, when Apple’s data center in Perrinville, Oregon, became the first data center to be certified by the Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS), a trusted global framework for measuring responsible water stewardship.
Last year, Apple included seven supplier sites in southern India and more than 20 supplier sites near Shanghai and Suzhou (in China) in water management training with AWS.
Published: April 18, 2024, 12:46 IST
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