昨天下午的废核游行，引起能源议题的讨论。其实能源选择 ，还攸关台湾产业发展，比
方说，想要打进苹果供应链，绿电已经是不可或缺的元素。
像台积电跟郭台铭董事长的富士康，都要用绿电！苹果公司宣布，旗下已有44家供应商加
入他们的清洁能源计画，其中就包括台积电和富士康。
而台积电也在4月18日宣布响应，他们为苹果所生产的芯片，将全数采用绿电。
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苹果公司在2019年4月11日宣布已有44家供应商加入该公司的清洁能源计画，清洁能源供
应包含iPhone制造过程中封装及芯片的制造。这些已承诺100%只使用清洁能源替苹果生产
的供应商数量增加将近1倍。
Apple Inc said on Thursday it has nearly doubled the number of suppliers using
only clean energy for production work, including two that assemble and make t
he processor chips for the iPhone.
苹果去年表示，再生能源可满足该公司所有的用电需求，例如以太阳能发电供应资料中心
（data center）的用电。然而，苹果公司为解决大部分来自于其供应链之碳足迹问题，
已从2015年起直接和供应链企业合作，促其使用清洁能源生产苹果产品。
Apple last year said it meets all of its needs with renewable energy such as s
olar farms that power data centers. But a large part of its carbon footprint c
omes from its supply chain, and since 2015 Apple has worked directly with thos
e companies to use clean energy for Apple production.
苹果公司4月11日宣布目前共有44家供应商加入该公司的清洁能源计画，包含鸿海集团旗
下生产iPhone的富士康、以及为苹果行动设备供应A系列处理器芯片的台积电。在此之前
，苹果公司曾表示有23家厂商参与“清洁能源供应商”计画。
Forty-four companies are now in the program, Apple said on Thursday, including
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd, whose Foxconn unit makes iPhones, and Taiw
an Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd, which supplies the A-series chips that
power all of Apple’s mobile devices. Apple had previously disclosed 23 suppli
ers in the program.
苹果的清洁能源定义为来自风能、太阳能或沼气燃料电池，以及所谓的“低冲击”水力发
电，例如在俄勒冈州的一个站点，即利用灌溉渠道的水力发电，为苹果的资料中心供电。
The company defines clean energy as coming from wind, solar or bio-gas fuel ce
lls, as well as what it calls “low-impact” hydroelectric projects like a sit
e in Oregon that captures energy from water in irrigation canals to power one
of its data centers.
苹果并未指定参与该计画的供应商清洁能源之方式，但鼓励供应商建立自己的再生能源计
画，例如去年iPad代工厂仁宝在其中国工厂安装屋顶型太阳能设备。
Apple did not specify where the new suppliers in the program would get the cle
an energy. It encourages suppliers to build their own renewable energy project
s, such as when iPad assembler Compal last year built rooftop solar installati
ons on its factories in China.
如果供应商无法设立再生能源案场，苹果则表示希望供应商能与新的再生能源案场签署购
电合约(PPA)，在无法取得PPA的情况下，则以购买再生能源凭证之方式取得清洁能源。
When those options are not available, Apple says it aims to have suppliers sig
n power-purchase agreements with new renewable energy projects and using purch
ases of renewable energy credits only when there are no other options.
苹果公司负责其环境、政策及社会倡议之副总裁Lisa Jackson表示，该公司有望在2020年
实现在其供应链电网增加4 GW可再生能源的目标，甚至有机会超过5 GW。
In an interview, Lisa Jackson, Apple’s vice president of environment, policy
and social initiatives, said the company is also on track to pass its goal of
adding 4 gigawatts of renewable energy to the grids of its supply chain by 202
0 and has a “sight line” to “well over” 5 gigawatts.
如果供应商未能履行对于该计画的承诺，Jackson拒绝透露苹果公司是否会放弃像是富士
康或是台积电这样的供应商，毕竟在供应链中没有其他公司可与这两家公司的能力匹敌。
Jackson declined to say whether Apple would drop suppliers such as Foxconn and
TSMC - whose capabilities few others in the global electronics supply chain c
an match - if they fail to meet their commitments to the program.
“我们花了一些时间将厂商召募进此计画中，而我们相信这些加入计画的厂商必会全力以
赴、达成目标。”Jackson表示“很明显，如果厂商没有达到承诺，我们将究其责任。我
无法说之后会怎么样，但希望这情况永远不会发生。”
“It took a while for them to come on board, and so we believe that now that t
hey have, they’re fully committed to doing it,” Jackson said. “And obviousl
y if they fall down on the job, we’ll be right there on their chase. I can’t
tell you what will happen, but I hope it never does.”
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