Apple becomes the first technology company to take the top spot in an annual survey of solar energy usage in business, ahead of Amazon and Target.
Apple, Inc is the business with the greatest amount of solar energy capacity in the US, according to a new report from the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). The organization has been charting the use of solar for the last seven years, and claims that never before has a technology firm come first.
“Counting both on-site and offsite capacity, Apple takes the top spot with 393 megawatts (MW) of solar installed,” said SEIA in its report Solar Means Business, “marking the first year a company in the tech space sits atop the leaderboard.”
Last year’s top company, Amazon, which is now in second place, is strictly speaking a technology firm because of its AWS business, but counts in this survey as a retailer. Amazon has a total solar energy-generating capacity of 329.8MW and third-place company, Target, has 242.4MW.
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