SUNPOWER, APPLE DO SOLAR IN CHINA

Apple Goes To China To Build Solar Projects With SunPower

Ucilla Wang, April 16, 2015 (Forbes)

“…Apple [is teaming up with SunPower] to build 40 megawatts of solar generation projects in the Sichuan Province…Apple [has worked with SunPower to develop 90 megawatts of projects for Apple in the U.S., many]…near or next to its data centers in North Carolina, Arizona and Nevada…Apple also signed a $850 million deal to buy solar power from a 130-megawatt project that will be built by First Solar in California…[In China, Apple] isn’t investing in projects that will benefit its operations. But…most of its products are made in China through contract manufacturers. It’s becoming more like Google, which does a mix of buying solar energy and taking stakes in solar power projects…Other tech companies such as Microsoft and Facebook have opted for buying renewable energy to inject more low-carbon electricity into the local grids…[In China,] Apple will co-own the two projects with a joint venture of SunPower’s called Sichuan Shengtian New Energy Development Co…The projects will use SunPower’s concentrating photovoltaic technology, which uses parabolic mirrors to concentrate sunlight onto solar cells to produce electricity. This system is run on a tracker that follows the sun’s movement…SunPower is already building these two projects and plans to complete them in the fourth quarter of this year…” click here for more

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