Apple's commitment to the environment is well known to all users of the Cupertino-based company. Apple has several solar power plants with which it supplies electricity mainly to its data centers. But the energy produced by these plants with solar panels is more than is necessary to satisfy the company's needs and last June he created a new company called Apple Energy LLC, with which he applied for a permit to be able to commercialize the excess energy in the electricity market. A month after the request, the Federal Energy Commission of the United States has just granted permission for Apple to sell all the excess electricity it produces at market prices.
After receiving this approval, Apple can already start selling excess energy generated in its solar parks located in Nevada, Arizona and California. As we have been able to read in SiliconBeat, who has published the news:
Federal energy regulators approved Apple's request last Thursday to begin selling surplus energy at market prices… The technology company has generation capacity of 20 megawatts in Nevada, 50 megawatts in Arizona and 130 megawatts in California . The latter, the one in California, is capable of supplying the energy needed by tens of thousands of homes. In addition, Apple will join forces with First Solar to provide some of this surplus energy to new projected apartments in southeastern Monterey County, California.
But in addition to these plants we must add the 14 megawatts of electricity that will produce the solar panels located in the new facilities that Apple will inaugurate at the beginning of the year and that we currently know as Campus 2, a work that, as we have seen in the last video, continues to advance at a good pace.