Omroep Flevoland - News - Largest solar carport in the world opened, Lowlands will soon be fully powered by green energy

2022-05-20 22:21:12 By : Ms. Tess Ulike

The largest solar carport in the world has been opened in the parking lot at the festival site in Biddinghuizen.The parking lot is covered with 90,000 solar panels and they cover an area of ​​35 hectares.That equates to about seventy football fields.The solar carport is an initiative of Lowlands, which holds a multi-day festival once a year on the adjacent site.The park generates green electricity for 10,000 households, which is equivalent to consumption during a hundred Lowlands weekends.Lowlands director Eric van Eerdenburg is proud of the solar park that is now located next to the festival site."This is bigger than I could have dreamed myself."Van Eerdenburg's goal is to connect the solar park to a battery.According to the festival, that is the second step that needs to be taken now.Until now, Lowlands needed generators to provide the festival with power.The festival wants to get rid of this within two years and run entirely on green energy.Van Eerdenburg indicates that he has been working for fifteen years to get the solar park at the festival site."It is really very important for our young audience, for the future of the Netherlands, for green energy and a better future," says Van Eerdenburg.According to him, a picture of the future will be sketched for the Netherlands in 2030 and 2050, to which the festival director does not want to contribute."We need to be part of the solution, not the problem."The power that is now generated in the parking lot by the solar park, which was installed by Solarfields, is fed into the power grid.Lowlands itself uses one percent of the electricity generated by the solar carport.WhatsApp us!Do you have a tip or comment?Send the editors of Omroep Flevoland a message on 06 - 52 52 4891 or send an email: rtv@omroepflevoland.nl!Farmers in Luttelgeest fear that it will take three to four years longer before they can earn back their purchased solar panels.As grid expansion has slowed down,…The number of planned student residences on Wisselweg on the site of the former Debeurs building in Almere keeps people busy.That became apparent on Thursday evening during the political market.It under...In the Duinbeek street in Lelystad, residents have been hearing the cry of an owl for a few nights.According to bird watchers, this is the rare scops owl, which normally lives in southern Europe.Local residents...Did you see anything remarkable?Or do you want to share something else with us?Let us know!