SolarWorld AG to illuminate European Soccer Championships 2008
Zurich Letzigrund Stadium equipped with solar technology
Sept 5, 2007
Source: Ad-hoc-news.de
http://www.ad-hoc-news.de/CorporateNews/en/13135731/
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At the upcoming European Soccer Championships SOLARWORLD AG will provide climate-friendly electricity. The world leading solar power group has equipped the newly built Zurich Letzigrund Stadium with solar technology. The stadium is among the venues of the 2008 European Soccer Championships which will be held in Austria and Switzerland. The Zurich arena will be the location of three qualifying round matches in June 2008. SolarWorld AG has supplied a TOTAL of 1,276 high Performance modules based on mono-crystalline cell technology for installation on the stadium roof upwards of the south curve. The high efficiency modules with their typical dark surface together Add up to a peak output of 223 Kilowatt.
The SolarWorld power plant will supply some 184,000 Kilowatt hours of emission-free electricity per year: theoretically this is sufficient electricity to cover the annual requirements of more than 60 German average households. For the inauguration of the new arena on the occasion of the track and field Golden League Meeting on 7 September 2007 the plant will already produce power.
SolarWorld AG presents itself at the Milan PV conference
Simultaneously, SolarWorld AG presents itself at the 22nd European Solar Energy Conference that takes place in Milan from 3 to 7 September 2007. ‘We are delighted that at the central sports event of the year 2008 SolarWorld top technology can make a contribution to clean power generation’, says Dipl.-Wirtschaftsingenieur Frank Henn, VP Sales of the Bonn solar group. ‘At the Milan conference we will present these and other high quality modules of our company to a broad international audience’. Among the European growth markets Italy stands out in 2007. In the current year the Rome government decided on an expansion of solar power generation to 3,000 MW in the medium term. SolarWorld expects to multiply its sales in Italy in 2007 and to reach a market share of more than ten per cent’.