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It's not like Apple or any other entity doing this is building new last mile electrical distribution, or putting new PV on the roof of malls. They're buying "credits" for kWh from solar/wind/hydroelectric generation sources, which feed into the same electrical grid operator, matching the number of kWh that the meter for the store consumes in a month.

The claim "running on renewable energy" is false.

See for example:

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/04/10/apple-caught-fibbing-...

https://www.fastcompany.com/40554151/how-apple-got-to-100-re...

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/9/17216656/apple-renewable-e...

(unordered list of sources)

They just calculate what they use, and buy that much from renewable suppliers, there's no separate feed for renewable power