Apple will soon be selling more than MacBooks, iPhones, iPads and watches to consumers. It may also be selling electricity. In what is being regarded as something of a bombshell in the energy markets – albeit a long predicted one – Apple has quietly has created a new subsidiary called Apple Energy, and asked to obtain a licence to sell electricity directly to consumers, rather than back to the grid via the wholesale market. Solar array supporting Apple’s Maiden, North Carolina data centre Image Credit: Apple The software giant’s intent is clear. Apple has vowed to source all of its electricity from renewable energy sources. It has already reached 93 per cent, buying the output of a host of large-scale solar projects in the US, wind projects, its own rooftop arrays, as well as a 1.1MW rooftop array in Singapore and aggregating the output from 800 different solar arrays. […]