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Apple Releases its 2015 Environmental Responsibility Report (iLounge)

Uses geothermal energy at its Reno data center

Apple has released its Environmental Responsibility Report for 2015, providing an update on the company’s progress toward becoming more eco-friendly during the 2014 fiscal year. The report emphasizes Apple’s use of clean energy sources like solar, wind, bio gas fuel cells and geothermal to power all of its U.S. data centers and 87 percent of those worldwide, but admits the company and its suppliers still emitted 34.2 metric tons of greenhouse gases last year, mostly from manufacturing processes.

At its Reno, Nevada, data center, Apple worked with the local utility to codevelop a 20-megawatt solar array using C7 solar panels, a new kind of photovoltaic panel with curved mirrors that concentrates sunlight. The solar array has an annual production capacity of over 43 million kilowatt-hours of clean, renewable energy. When additional energy is needed, the data center uses local geothermal energy purchased from the utility or other solar resources.

The 39th GRC Annual Meeting & GEA Expo will be held September 20-23 at the Peppermill Resort Spa in Reno, Nevada, USA. This is the biggest annual event in the geothermal energy industry.

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