Last June we informed you of the new company that Apple has created called Apple Energy LLC, an energy company whose main and only objective is sell the excess energy you get from your solar panel plants. As we have been able to read in SiliconBeat, the Cupertino-based company has just received the go-ahead from the authorities to be able to sell that excess energy so that it can now be put into operation. This approval comes from the Federal Commission of the United States, a commission that regulates energy. After this approval, Apple can now begin to sell excess energy generated in its solar parks and other renewable energy facilities located in Nevada, Arizona and California.
Federal energy regulators approved Apple's request last Thursday to begin selling surplus energy at market prices… The technology company has generation capacity of 20 megawatts in Nevada, 50 megawatts in Arizona and 130 megawatts in California . The latter, the one in California, is capable of supplying the energy needed by tens of thousands of homes. In addition, Apple will join forces with First Solar to provide some of this surplus energy to new projected apartments in southeastern Monterey County, California.
The company is also awaiting approval for sell excess electricity that you plan to generate from the new facilities on Campus 2 of Apple, works that according to the plans should finish before the end of the year. Apple's new facility will have a capacity of 14 megawatts and will be the only source of energy used on the entire gigantic 176-acre site. Along with clearance from the Federal Energy Commission, Apple has also received approval to build a sanitary gas power plant in North Carolina.
