We not too long ago acquired along with our long-time companions Arsenal Soccer Membership to offer Gooners with the chance to cost their electrical autos (EVs) at Emirates Stadium throughout match days.
To have a good time the set up of the brand new chargers, Arsenal Beneath-15’s goalkeeper Alexei Rojas Fedorushchenko interviewed males’s first staff gamers Hector Bellerin, Pablo Mari and Bernd Leno about their views on sustainability, inexperienced power and defending the atmosphere. You possibly can take a look at the complete video under!
In one in every of our first visitor posts of the yr, the staff caught up with Arsenal’s Sustainability and Logistics Supervisor, Mike Lloyd, to listen to concerning the electrifying new initiative.
Hello Mike, so nice to talk to you right this moment! So what is that this new initiative with Octopus Power all about?
Mike: We now have labored with Octopus Power to put in 4 7 kW electrical automobile chargers in our stadium automotive park, providing 100% renewable electrical energy to electrical automobile drivers on match days and for occasions at Emirates Stadium. These chargers are 100% appropriate with all electrical autos at the moment available on the market.
How do these new chargers contribute to the broader sustainability targets of the membership?
Mike: Arsenal and Octopus Power have been working collectively for greater than 5 years to make the membership extra sustainable.We’re at all times striving to enhance our infrastructure to assist our sustainability targets and that is the most recent in a protracted line of initiatives we’re endeavor collectively. In 2016 we grew to become the primary Premier League membership to modify to 100% inexperienced electrical energy, and along with Octopus Power we have planted 500 bushes to construct Colney Wooden at our London Colney coaching centre, including to the 29,000 bushes now we have planted throughout the positioning since 1999. These are only a few of the examples of the work we’re doing on this area.
How concerning the big battery powering Emirates stadium? How did that come about?
Mike: In 2018, Octopus Power helped seek the advice of on this mission to offer Emirates Stadium with the UK’s first soccer stadium 2.5MWh battery. We labored with Downing LLP and Pivot Energy to get it put in. The battery ensures that we will keep away from pulling from the grid at peak instances when power is dirtier and costlier. Octopus Power supplies the battery with 100% inexperienced energy to verify we’re saving the environment from extra carbon emissions whereas matches are being performed.
Why is it essential that Arsenal and Octopus Power are making these provisions for electrical vehicles throughout the stadium?
Mike: From a sensible viewpoint, the set up of the chargers is essential to make sure we cater for our followers as electrical autos turn into extra extensively used. As a Premier League soccer membership with an enormous international following, it’s additionally essential that we use our platform to advertise inexperienced practices, encourage our communities and push one another in direction of a extra sustainable future. That is just the start and hopefully because the numbers of electrical autos on the roads enhance, we will match that with the services throughout all our websites.
