Introduction Climate Change Resources Smarter Chemistry Engagement and Advocacy Appendix 2023 Environmental Progress Report 24 Product use Clean energy projects Engaging with our customers The electricity that our customers use to charge their As we expand on our strategy to cover product use In many places, electricity comes from clean sources like Apple devices represents 24 percent of Apple’s gross with clean electricity, we’re considering a number of the sun or wind at certain times of the day. Customers carbon footprint. Increasing the energy efficiency of factors in selecting projects. In accordance with global play an important role in deciding when to pull electricity our products helps drive down emissions from product greenhouse gas accounting standards, we’ll match the from the grid. We’re building programs to make those use, and we’re taking steps to address the emissions electricity consumption of our products with 100 percent decisions easier for customers. Clean Energy Charging, that remain. clean electricity on an annual basis. While we’ll source which became available in the United States in fall 2022 the majority of our clean electricity from the region, we’re through iOS 16, enables customers to help decrease the When Apple committed to running our business on maintaining geographic flexibility for a portion of the carbon footprint of iPhone. The new feature looks at the 100 percent renewable electricity in 2013 — a goal we emissions so that we can target grids with higher carbon sources of electricity during expected charge times, and it met for our facilities in 2018 — we were early leaders intensity. This approach allows us to balance focusing optimizes to reduce carbon by charging when the grid is in this transition. As we address emissions tied to the on areas where our customers use our products and using cleaner energy sources (learn more here ). electricity that our products use globally, our guiding maximizing the social and environmental benefits of principles focus on three areas: exploring innovative additional renewable energy. For example, while California Beyond the work that we do on our products, we solutions to minimize carbon emissions from product is a large market for Apple, we might build new renewable collaborate with others to continue advancing climate- use, including energy efficiency (see page 14 ); building energy projects in other locations with lower clean energy smart decision-making for customers across their clean electricity projects aimed at maximizing carbon percentages on their grids, where the same renewable household energy usage, as well as for our employees reductions and social impact; and engaging with our energy capacity can have a more significant impact. and partners. As an example, Apple has joined the customers to educate and provide opportunities to CoolClimate Network, a research partnership of the support decarbonizing the grid. As a first phase of this work, we’re working toward University of California, Berkeley, that motivates and developing large-scale solar and wind projects in the empowers individuals and organizations to make low- U.S. and Europe. In the U.S., we’ve invested in the carbon choices. 320-megawatt 2300-acre IP Radian solar project in Brown County, Texas, and plans for additional projects in the U.S. are underway. In Europe, we plan to engage in projects that range between 30 and 300 m egawatts, with an initial request for proposals issued in 2022. Apple is investing in renewable energy worldwide — including this large-scale solar project in Brown County, Texas — to help address the electricity customers use to charge their Apple devices.