Apple announced plans to add 650 megawatts of new renewable energy capacity across Europe through solar and wind projects. These new projects, in tandem with a newly operational solar installation in Spain, are designed to help Apple reach its goal of matching 100 percent of the electricity that customers use to power Apple devices with clean energy by 2030.
The new projects span multiple nations, each chosen with varying grid and environmental conditions in mind:
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Greece: Apple has signed a long-term agreement with HELLENiQ ENERGY to procure power from a 110 MW solar installation. That project is already operational.
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Italy: Plans are underway for a 129 MW portfolio combining solar and wind projects. The first of these, a solar installation in Sicily, is expected to come online soon.
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Poland: Apple is enabling a 40 MW solar array via developer Econergy, with operations slated later in the year.
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Romania: Through a deal with Nala Renewables and OX2, Apple will procure power from a 99 MW wind farm in Galați County.
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Latvia: Apple entered one of the country’s earliest corporate power purchase agreements (PPA) with European Energy for a 110 MW solar farm.
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Spain: A 131 MW solar farm by ib vogt in Segovia is already operational.
Together, across Europe, Apple anticipates that these projects will generate over 1 million megawatt-hours (MWh) of clean electricity by 2030. The new capacity is expected to add ~3,000 gigawatt-hours (GWh) annually to the grid by 2030, when fully matured.
Apple estimates that the electricity used by customers to charge and run their Apple devices accounted for about 29 percent of its total greenhouse gas emissions in 2024. This “product use” footprint is one of the more challenging segments for a tech company, since it lies outside direct control. By enabling new clean power projects in the regions where its customers live, Apple is trying to neutralize that usage-based share of emissions.
This expansion is part of Apple’s broader Apple 2030 ambition: to become carbon neutral across its entire footprint(operations, manufacturing, and product life cycle) by the end of the decade. Apple already powers its own global operations (offices, retail, data centers) and many supplier facilities using green energy, with total support exceeding 19 gigawatts (GW) of renewable capacity.
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