For the 2020 season, the Raiders left Oakland Bay to move to Las Vegas. His new home would be Allegiant Stadium. A first-class venue that has a capacity for 72,000 people.
The Raiders’ home cost $1.9 billion, making it the second most expensive stadium in the United States, only behind SoFi Stadium, home of the Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Chargers, also of the NFL.
This colossal stadium has great first-class technological advances. As a retractable playing field, which allows you to change from natural to artificial grass as the occasion requires. In addition to being completely covered and having an air conditioning system throughout the stadium.
These great attributes of the stadium require a large amount of energy. However, the administration of the venue has found a way for its entire system to operate with 100% renewable energy.
This system will be put into practice this Sunday, October 9 in the match between the Las Vegas Raiders and Green Bay Packers. Being the first NFL game in which the stadium operates 100% with clean and renewable energy.
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Allegiant Stadium aims to take an important step toward sustainability, emphasizing its obligation to fans, players, community and the planet.
Cigarette butts as an alternative energy for the stadium
One of the ways in which the stadium generates energy to operate is very unique, as it is through cigarette butts. These are collected, processed, passed through a combustion chamber, the ashes are collected and that material is used to create energy through a generator.
“When a customer throws away a cigarette, we collect the waste. “They pass through this drum and are transformed into energy.”explains Samantha Johnson, senior vice president of sales at Allegiant Stadium, who also leads the facility’s sustainability program. “We ensure that cigarette butts do not reach waterways or the community, and that this waste is properly disposed of and converted to energy,” she said.
In this way, Allegiant Stadium is only the seventh stadium in the NFL in achieving LEED Gold certification. Which ratifies the commitment to green energy, and will make history as the first to hold an official meeting with this modality. What he hopes will inspire other teams to follow in the same footsteps.
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2023-10-07 03:52:01
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