Premier League stadium set for £4.35m makeover as ‘game changing’ project gets green light
WEST HAM’S London Stadium is set to go green as part of a major makeover project.
A £4.35million revamp is about to take place that will lead to the installation of 6,500 square metres of solar membrane panels.
West Ham’s London Stadium is set for a massive revampGetty – Contributor
The London Stadium is about to become one of the greenest venues in the worldGetty
The LLDC Solar Membrane Project has received funding from the £500m-worth Mayor of London’s Green Finance Fund.
The Hammers’ ground is expected to save more than 200 tonnes of carbon emissions a year and generate enough to power all the venue’s major events.
It is expected that in the period between 2022 and 2026 the stadium will have reduced energy drawn from the national grid by 3m kWh – from 11.5m kWh per year to 8.5m.
To put it in perspective, the annual 850,000-kWh generated by the solar panels is equivalent to the power used for several major events each year.
That is approximately 20 football matches, four concerts, two MLB games and one international athletics meet.
The solar energy will also save more than 200 tonnes of carbon emissions a year, which is equivalent to 100 flights from London to New York.
The installation at West Ham‘s stadium is expected to be completed by the summer of 2025.
The solar membrane panels will be installed on London Stadium‘s roof.
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That will mark the largest solar array on a Premier League ground, thus making the London Stadium one of the greenest venues in the world.
Deputy Mayor for Environment and Energy Mete Coban said: “These solar panels are a game changer for the London Stadium, turning it into one of the world’s greenest sports and concert venues and hugely reducing its energy use and running costs.
“The Mayor’s Green Finance Fund offers exciting opportunities to help public sector bodies lower their carbon footprint and become more sustainable, and I encourage organisations to get involved as the next round of funding opens and we continue to build a greener, fairer London for everyone.”
