A soccer match held at the largest stadium in the Netherlands last week ran entirely off green energy, following the installation of a second “super” battery.
Amsterdam’s Johan Cruyff Arena, home to the AFC Ajax soccer team and the host of regular matches and concerts, deployed a second battery in recent weeks, following the installation of a 3 MW storage system in 2018. The system was billed as Europe’s largest project to use secondhand batteries and batteries from electric vehicles in a commercial building.
The new installation takes the stadium’s combined storage capacity to 8.6 MWh. The batteries store energy generated by 4,200 solar panels installed on the stadium’s roof, as well as a wind turbine in the village of Oudendijk and a local solar park. Until recently, the storage system had been used for emergency power needs, but it is now expected that future soccer matches and concerts will run on entirely green energy.
“We are incredibly proud that we can take this major step together with our partners in making football matches more sustainable,” said Tanja Dik, the arena’s CEO. “Our ambition is to realize Net Positive events by 2030. This means that we only want to make a positive contribution to society and the climate.”
The project has been co-funded by the European Union and the European Regional Development Fund.
Earlier this year, work commenced on a 1.1 MW PV system on a football stadium in northern Italy. Meanwhile, the world’s largest vertical rooftop PV system was deployed on Norway’s national football stadium.
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So from what did this sustainable battery get built from ? That’s the question that needs to be further answered here