Apple has said its global facilities are now fully powered by clean energy as part of the company's commitment to fight climate change.
The fully powered clean energy facilities include retail stores, offices, data centers and co-located facilities in 43 countries including the U.S., the U.K., China and India, the American technology giant announced on Monday.
Nine additional manufacturing partners have also committed to power all of their Apple production with 100 percent clean energy, the statement said, bringing the total number of suppliers that made using renewable energy commitments to 23.
"We鈥檙e committed to leaving the world better than we found it. After years of hard work we're proud to have reached this significant milestone," Apple CEO Tim Cook said in the statement.
"We鈥檙e going to keep pushing the boundaries of what is possible with the materials in our products, the way we recycle them, our facilities and our work with suppliers to establish new creative and forward-looking sources of renewable energy because we know the future depends on it," he added.
Some of Apple's renewable energy projects include solar arrays, wind farms, biogas fuel cells, micro-hydro generation systems and energy storage technologies.
Currently, the company has 25 operational renewable energy projects in the world, which have a total generation capacity of 626 megawatts; 286 megawatts of solar PV generation came online last year -- the most ever in a single year.
The company has also 15 other clean energy projects under construction. Once they are completed, it will have 1.4 gigawatts of clean renewable energy generation across 11 countries in the world.
Since 2011, the firm said, its renewable energy projects had reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 54 percent from its facilities worldwide, and prevented nearly 2.1 million metric tons of emissions from entering the atmosphere.
Apple's new headquarters that opened last year in Cupertino, California is fully powered by clean energy resources.
The new headquarters has a 17 megawatt rooftop solar installation, four megawatts of biogas fuel cells, and battery storage. The campus has also the ability to supply clean energy to the public grid.
By Ovunc Kutlu in New York
Anadolu Agency
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