Apple s spaceship like headquarters in cupertino california is adorned in solar panels a testament to the company s pledge to power its facility with 100 percent renewable energy.
Apple headquarters solar panels.
The new campus will get 16 megawatts of power from rooftop solar panels some of which will be affixed to the top of its two on campus parking structures.
The building will also be the world s largest naturally ventilated building projected to require no heating or air condition for nine months of the year.
Apple is going green in a big way.
Apple announced that it will open its new 175 acre campus to employees beginning in april.
The campus is powered 100 percent by renewable energy and will include 17 mw of rooftop solar.
Apple park will be one of the largest on site solar installations in the world.
The apple headquarters aims to be a net zero energy campus and as part of this the entire roof of the giant building will contain 700 000 square feet of solar panels with a capacity to generate 8.
Ceo tim cook said tuesday that the company would power its new corporate headquarters with energy from a 2 900 acre solar farm being built by first solar.
Apple s portion of the the first solar farm.
Parking structures on apple s new campus.
The largest installed commercial scale system today is only 4 26mw in edison new jersey.
Apple s 17mw of solar would be the equivalent amount of power needed to supply roughly 2 400 homes assuming an average home solar system size of 7kw.
Apple park apple s new headquarters in cupertino is now the largest leed platinum certified office building in north america.
As a comparison google s headquarters googleplex is only 1 6mw.
It is powered by 100 percent renewable energy from multiple sources including a 17 megawatt onsite rooftop solar installation and four megawatts of biogas fuel cells and controlled by a microgrid with battery storage.
Apple s gorgeous new 5 billion headquarters in cupertino california dubbed the spaceship will not only contain the largest pieces of structural glass ever made but also one of the largest.