Not being much of a follower of sport I hadn’t heard of the World Games until last week. And why did the World Games pique my attention? Because the stadium that’s being built specially for it in Taiwan is the world biggest solar powered stadium in the world. It’s covered in a staggering 8844 solar panels.
After the games are held in July this year, this stadium will power 80% the neighbourhood surrounding it with the massive 1.14 gigawatt hours that it will produce every year. Now that’s forward thinking.
The stadium was designed by architect Toyo Ito, seats 55,000 people and cost over $150million to build.
More images of the solar colossus below.
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Wow – Great photos! But who took them? There’s no credit –
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Thanks for the comment Siel, I was unable to find the original source for these images, they come from the deputydog blog’s coverage of the stadium. http://deputy-dog.com
Very nice post, this a fantastic stadium, and for me is the right way to think, i really think that future stadiums anywere in the world must have some kind of renewable Energy attached ! Solar Power and architech meets and forms a unique beautiful stadium . Thanks for sharing
Such a beautiful building – let’s hope that someday very soon all buildings will generate some or all of their power needs.
Looks awesome. I think solar energy is going to go mainstream soon. It won’t be long before there is cost parity with conventional fuels. Then it will explode.
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