{"id":17,"date":"2013-03-23T14:17:45","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T18:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/apple-from-35-to-75-renewable-energy-in-two-years.html"},"modified":"2013-03-23T14:17:45","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T18:17:45","slug":"apple-from-35-to-75-renewable-energy-in-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/apple-from-35-to-75-renewable-energy-in-two-years.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple: from 35% to 75% renewable energy in two years"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n
\n<\/a>
\nAll it takes is the will to get it done, and Apple is doing it:
\n
\nfrom 35% renewable energy in 2010 to 75% in 2012<\/a>, and 100%
\nat all Apple data centers.
\nCost? They’ll save more than they spent.
\nTime for Georgia Power and Southern Company to stop dragging their feet
\nand help us get on with it in Georgia.\n<\/p>\n

\nPeter Burrows wrote for Bloomberg Thursday that
\n
\nApple got nudged:<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\n
\n<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nA year ago, Apple was targeted by Greenpeace International, which
\nranked Apple 12th out of 14 large technology companies in a report
\ncalled
\n
\n\u201cHow Clean Is Your Cloud?\u201d<\/a> The environmental
\ngroup, which held protests at Apple’s offices in Cupertino,
\nCalifornia, charged Apple with relying on electricity from coal
\nplants and gave Apple a grade of no better than D in the four
\ncategories it tracked.\n<\/p>\n

\n\u201cIncreasing our use of renewable energy is our primary
\nobjective,\u201d Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s chief financial
\nofficer, said in an interview. \u201cWe think these efforts will
\nresult in learnings that other companies and communities can benefit
\nfrom as well.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\nApple’s announcement shows \u201creal progress,\u201d Greenpeace
\nsaid, urging the company disclose more detail on how it’s working
\nwith utilities and state governments to achieve its energy goals.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nTransparency on types of energy received and used,
\nlike
\n
\nNorth Carolina’s Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) Tracking System<\/a>
\nthat
\n
\nenabled the solar power industry in NC<\/a>.
\nGeorgia could be working towards that by passing
\n
\nHB 503<\/a> (minus the bogus biomass parts).
\nThat would make a lot more sense than listening to
\n
\nALEC trying to prevent or repeal renewable portfolio standards<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

\nAmong many wakeup calls for Georgia,
\nAn Arizona State University study two years ago ranked George #3
\namong states that could benefit most from solar power<\/a>,
\nboth for internal use and for export for profit.
\nHere’s another wakeup call:
\n
\nthe NRC for the first time ever denied a nuclear license<\/a>
\nand several existing nukes are closing, while many others will not be built.
\nIt’s time for
\nGeorgia Power and Southern Company
\nto cancel their
\n
\nthree-legged nuclear regulatory-capture boondoggle<\/a>
\nfor those already-15-months-late and $1-billion-over nukes
\non the Savannah River
\n
\n<\/a>
\nso those companies can lead us in solar power inland
\nand wind off the coast instead of dragging us backwards.
\nIf they won’t do it, others will, as just demonstrated
\n
\nby the 1 megawatt solar groundbreaking<\/a> at Dublin High School
\n
\nfinanced by municipal bonds<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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