Apple expands renewable energy projects in Europe with 650MW of clean power
Apple is expanding its clean energy footprint across Europe, announcing a series of new solar and wind projects that will add 650MW of renewable energy capacity across Greece, Italy, Latvia, Poland, and Romania. The initiative also includes a newly operational solar farm in Spain and represents over $600 million in financing toward clean energy generation.
This move underscores how major technology players are shaping the continent’s renewable energy infrastructure — from corporate power purchase agreements (PPAs) to grid decarbonization strategies that influence both regional policy and industrial investment.
Expanding Europe’s clean energy network
The new projects are part of Apple’s broader Apple 2030 plan, which aims to make the company carbon neutral across its operations and product lifecycle by the end of the decade. A major focus of the initiative is to match 100 percent of customers’ electricity use for powering and charging Apple devices with clean energy.
“By 2030, we want our users to know that all the energy it takes to charge their iPhone or power their Mac is matched with clean electricity,” said Lisa Jackson, Apple’s vice president of Environment, Policy, and Social Initiatives. “Our new projects in Europe will help us achieve our ambitious Apple 2030 goal, while contributing to healthy communities, thriving economies, and secure energy sources across the continent.”
Apple estimates the new renewable assets will generate more than 1 million megawatt-hours of clean electricity annually by 2030 — equivalent to the energy needed to power hundreds of thousands of homes.
Strategic projects across key markets
Apple’s European energy portfolio now spans some of the region’s most carbon-intensive grids. In Greece, Apple has signed a long-term power purchase agreement with HELLENiQ ENERGY for a 110MW solar project — now fully operational — helping to accelerate the country’s renewable transition.
Apple is backing a 129MW portfolio of solar and wind projects in Italy, with the first solar farm in Sicily set to go online this month. In Poland, where coal still dominates the grid, Apple has enabled Econergy’s 40MW solar array, due to begin operations later this year.
Further east, in Romania’s Galați County, Apple will procure power from Nala Renewables’ 99MW wind farm, currently under construction by OX2. Meanwhile, in Latvia, Apple signed one of the country’s first corporate PPAs with European Energy for a 110MW solar farm — one of the largest in the Baltic region.
Apple also recently completed a 131MW solar project in Segovia, Spain, developed by ib vogt, which is now contributing power to the grid.
Apple’s renewable energy projects include the newly operational Castaño solar array in Spain. (Source: Apple)
Driving impact beyond operations
While Apple’s own facilities and supply chain already run on over 19GW of renewable power, the company’s latest efforts focus on reducing emissions from product use — which accounted for about 29 percent of its total carbon footprint in 2024. By sourcing clean power where Apple products are actually used, the company aims to offset the electricity demand of millions of devices across the continent.
Apple’s ongoing investment in Europe’s renewable infrastructure reflects a growing trend among technology giants to use their scale to drive regional decarbonization. For the European energy sector, it’s another signal that corporate sustainability commitments are evolving from pledges into large-scale, grid-connected reality.
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