Football Club Embraces Solar Energy

Football clubs are starting to look at solar energy, sustainable options for their sites and buildings and cut costs to utility bills

League One professional football club. Exeter City has embraced the concept of solar energy to combat rising utility bills.  The Devon based club is installing solar panels at it's training ground base to enhance the buildings structure and opportunity for capturing solar energy.  The solar panel installation has been made possible thanks to a scheme by Devon county council. 
 
Exeter City is looking to grow it's sustainable offering as part within the English Football League’s ‘Green Clubs’ scheme and is also looking at becoming part of the UN Sports for Climate Action Framework.
 
There have been 108 solar panels installed on the roof of the club's Cliff Hill training ground with the possibility of land based solar panels also explored.  It is expected to generate more than 40MWh each year and save an estimated 9 tonnes of carbon emissions - that’s equivalent to the amount of carbon absorbed by 415 trees every year. 

Travis Bramley, Sustainability Officer at ECFC said: 
 
“We’ve been promising fans solar for some time now and it feels fantastic to finally be delivering on this. We’re excited to benefit from the carbon savings of this project, as well as the clear financial benefits.” 

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