According to reports, Apple will use 85 lithium-ion super battery packs to store the energy generated by the 130-megawatt California Flats solar array, which will be able to store 240 megawatt-hours of energy, which can power 7,000 homes for a day.
The project is part of Apple’s goal to make all its products and its supply chain completely carbon neutral by 2030.
The tech giant announced plans to produce about 8 gigawatts of clean energy with more than 110 suppliers committed to using 100 percent renewable energy in the production of Apple products. According to reports, this is equivalent to taking 3.4 million cars off the road. It also means that every Apple product sold will have zero climate impact in less than a decade.
In 2019, Tesla developed the Megapack, which it says is easier to install and also offers a 60 percent higher energy density than the Powerpack, which can provide significant cost and time savings compared to other storage systems and power plants that use fossil fuels.
However, Lisa Jackson, Apple’s vice president of environmental, policy and social initiatives, told Reuters the company understood the challenges faced by the project because of the inherent unreliability of solar and wind: “Clean energy – solar And the challenge of wind energy is intermittent. If we can do it, and we can prove it works for us, it will remove concerns about intermittency and help stabilize the grid.”
Apple plans to share the results of this project with other companies in the future.
According to reports, Apple will use 85 lithium-ion super battery packs to store the energy generated by the 130-megawatt California Flats solar array, which will be able to store 240 megawatt-hours of energy, which can power 7,000 homes for a day.
The project is part of Apple’s goal to make all its products and its supply chain completely carbon neutral by 2030.
The tech giant announced plans to produce about 8 gigawatts of clean energy with more than 110 suppliers committed to using 100 percent renewable energy in the production of Apple products. According to reports, this is equivalent to taking 3.4 million cars off the road. It also means that every Apple product sold will have zero climate impact in less than a decade.
In 2019, Tesla developed the Megapack, which it says is easier to install and also offers a 60 percent higher energy density than the Powerpack, which can provide significant cost and time savings compared to other storage systems and power plants that use fossil fuels.
However, Lisa Jackson, Apple’s vice president of environmental, policy and social initiatives, told Reuters the company understood the challenges faced by the project because of the inherent unreliability of solar and wind: “Clean energy – solar And the challenge of wind energy is intermittent. If we can do it, and we can prove it works for us, it will remove concerns about intermittency and help stabilize the grid.”
Apple plans to share the results of this project with other companies in the future.
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