Former CEO and Co-founder of Apple Steve Jobs introduing one of Apple's solar farm projects as the company's CSR commitments. [Photo: agencies]

Apple has announced plans to create a solar power project in a remote area of Sichuan.

In making the committment, Apple says its part of its corporate social responsibility.

Apple has plans to create a 40-megawatt solar power project in an ethnic Tibetan and Qiang-inhabited region in Sichuan to give locals the access to clean energy.

The project is expected to power 61-thousand homes a year.

Apple is working with US-based SunPower, along with 4 other Chinese companies.

The companies involved say they will try their best to minimize the project's impact on local ecology, as it's going to be built in an environmentally sensitive area.

The solar farm in Sichuan will be the first Apple has built outside the United States.