Intel, the biggest producer of semiconductor chips in the world, is about to expand its solar capacities by installing new sites at 8 locations in Arizona, Oregon, New Mexico and California. The sum of all power capacities on all locations will be around 2.5 megawatts. All solar panels will be installed and set up on Intel’s facilities’ roofs, except for in California, which will be a 6-acre site.

Intel also wants to remain the EPA’s number one renewable energy purchaser. Therefore, they increased their RECs (Renewable Energy Credits) to more than 1.42 kilowatt hours.

Intel also reported that they have invested more than $31 million in projects related to water use, energy consumption, emissions reductions, waste reduction and product energy efficiency and saved more than 640 million kilowatt hours since all these initiatives started in 2001.

The whole project is planned to be completed in about 7 months.

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