Presentation
Description
Microsoft Corporation is a multinational information technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington: created by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975.
Digital activity
The digital activity is the heart of Microsoft. It's one of the most important companies in the world for the production of softwares. Currently, Microsoft develops, manufactures, supports and sells, or licenses, computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers and services; its best-known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, the Microsoft Office personal productivity suite, and the Internet Explorer and Edge browsers; in the hardware field, on the other hand, its best known products are the Xbox console family and Microsoft Surface products.
Good practice targeted
Environmental
Good practice
The good practice aims at using clean energy. Volt Energy LLC (www.volt-energy.com) is a national minority-owned solar energy development firm. From July 2021 it started to work on this goal with Microsoft.
Volt Energy will supply Microsoft with 250 megawatts (MW) of utility-scale solar energy, which supports Microsoft's goal to have 100 percent renewable energy supply for all its operations by 2025. In addition, Volt Energy and Microsoft will invest a portion of the revenue from the Power Purchase Agreement in community impact funding initiatives, which will support programs that bring the benefits of renewable energy closer to communities that have not been significantly included in the wave of clean energy initiatives undertaken by the private and public sectors.
Costs
Not known
Starting date of the good practice
July 2021
Time to implement the good practice
from the beginning on
Tools/partners/suppliers of the good practice
Volt Energy www.volt-energy.com