Football club SC Freiburg prepares world's biggest PV system on stadium

• German football club SC Freiburg is planning to construct a 2.4-MWp solar power system on the roof covering of its stadium in the city of Freiburg which is readied to come to be the world's largest photovoltaic or pv installation on a stadium until now.

The football club is partnering with BadenovaWaermeplus, a subsidiary of local utility business Badenova, which will set up 6,000 solar modules on the roofing of the Europa Park stadium, starting in May after completion of the Bundesliga season. The modules will certainly be supplied by Swiss maker Meyer Burger Technology AG (SWX: MBTN).

When appointed in the late summer of this year, the solar installation will generate around 2.3 million kWh of electrical power per year and this will certainly suffice to cover the yearly power requirements of the stadium.

"Solar power supplies a lot of possible to lower exhausts making use of already built-up areas, to end up being climate-neutral as well as to give environment security a lot more drive with a forward-looking technology - not only for soccer clubs," stated Meyer Burger's COO Moritz Borgmann.

BadenovaWaermeplus has actually safeguarded the project as part of an auction under the EEG plan and also will certainly spend EUR 2.3 million (USD 2.61 m) in it. Under the regards to the agreement, the programmer will run the solar installation for at the very least twenty years.