It can’t meet climate goals without cleaning up its supply chain.
Claims of using “100 percent clean electricity,” however, aren’t so straightforward. Applethat it had begun using 100 percent renewable energy, but that doesn’t mean that its stores and offices were actually running on wind and solar power all the time. Most grids just don’t have enough renewable energy capacity and aren’t wired to provide that to any one customer all the time.
So companies often buy Renewable Energy Credits from energy providers, which represent the environmental benefits of renewable energy projects, to sort of offset their dirty electricity use. Apple buys these credits, and so do its suppliers. In 2021, just under 80 percent of its suppliers’ renewable energy “procurement” went toward buying renewable energy from providers. RECs made up another 8 percent.
Apple’s Supplier Clean Energy Program purchased credits equivalent to 360,000 metric tons of carbon emissions to “address a small increase to its carbon footprint,” it said in today’s
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