Olympic Size Photovoltaic Energy Generation

Not recognizable to the visitor, but huge nontheless: The photovoltaic system on the Olympiastadion Berlin. has 1,614 photovoltaic modules on the concrete ring of the stadium roof generating almost 615,000 kilowatt hours of electricity per year. This corresponds to the annual electricity requirements of around 205 three-person households. The locally generated electricity supplies the stadium’s ventilation, cooling and lighting, among other things. Due to the high basic electricity requirement of the Olympiastadion, almost all of the electricity generated is used directly on site, which corresponds to around 12 percent of the local electricity requirements and results in savings of 225 tons of CO2 per year.