The green power plant that’s also a sports stadium!
Over 8,800 solar panels!
Is it a sports stadium? Is it a power plant? It’s both! Welcome to the new age of clean and renewable energy power plants that can also be sports stadiums. 
Taiwan’s new World Games stadium is just about built and incorporates over 8,800 solar panels on the roof that can generate 1.14 gigawatt hours of electricity per year, enough electricity to power up to 80% of the surrounding neighborhood after being fed into the grid on the days when the stadium is unused.
A sea of solar panels!
This is basically a mega huge grid connected solar system, with the power being used by the facility, straight off the panels (through their mega huge inverters) and then the power that doesn’t get used is pushed onto the local power grid, for others to use. The stadium would receive payment for that clean renewable energy it generates, by the local power company.
So when the stadium is sitting there, not being used, day in day out, it’s basically a power station, providing renewable power to the local grid and making money in the process. When the stadium is being used during the day, it will draw the power first off the solar system, and then at night it will draw the power back off the grid as the power generated from the solar panels is not stored onsite, but stored on the power grid.
So everyday, the sun rises, and that free renewable clean energy is converted into electricity via the solar panels, and pushed onto the local power grid (through inverters) for consumption. This is the beauty of renewable energy, in all that’s needed is to the sun to rise. That’s it! There’s no constant demand for new coal to be mined, transported to a coal power station, to make electricity. The sun rises every morning and goes to work, providing clean energy, day in, day out. That’s a bloody beautiful and smart thing.
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Amazing !!!
That is awesome!!! Let’s bring that thinking to the US
VIC
Nothing else to add but the sun. Love it!
go green!! great way to cheer lead.
I’m all for the green.