The deal comes amid major supply chain headaches for solar energy.
— one that it won’t be able to meet unless it can encourage more solar and wind energy to come online.
Since 2012, Microsoft has technically purchased enough clean energy to match its electricity use. But that doesn’t mean that the company’s operations are actually running on renewables all the time. There just isn’t enough solar and wind connected to power grids yet, with renewables making up onlyMicrosoft makes “power purchase agreements” with energy providers to spur the development of new solar and wind projects.
To make things harder, the solar industry is facing major supply chain kinks — especially in the US. Solar manufacturing is concentrated in China, which supplies about 80 percent of the world’s solar panels. That concentration makes the solar supply chain more vulnerable to bottlenecks, and a major one lately has been accusations of
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