Three new 7 kWh chargers have been installed in the fan parking zone at the stadium in north London, offering 100 percent renewable electricity to EV drivers during games. The chargers have been outfitted with Octopus Energy branding and can charge 14 kWh during a standard football match – the equivalent of a two hour drive after a game.
Arsenal and Octopus Energy have been working together for more than five years to make the club more sustainable and the new EV chargers are the latest in a long line of initiatives that the club has undertaken. These include holding sustainability classes for local children through Arsenal in the Community and planting 500 trees at the club’s London Colney training centre, adding to the 29,000 that have been planted since 1999 to make Colney Wood. Emirates Stadium was the first UK Premier League stadium to have a large-scale battery installed, which can store enough green electricity to power the stadium for an entire game. The stadium has been powered with 100 percent renewable electricity supplied by Octopus Energy since 2017.
To celebrate the installation of the new chargers, Arsenal Under-15’s goalkeeper Alexei Rojas Fedorushchenko interviewed first team members Hector Bellerin, Pablo Mari and Bernd Leno to learn about their views on sustainability, green energy and protecting the environment.
“Definitely when we have a bigger platform, we have some social responsibility to be positive and raise awareness about different things, environmentally and ethically” said Hector Bellerin, Arsenal defender, talking about his role in incentivising more people to go green. “Sustainability is not only what happens to the environment but about ethics and being a humanitarian.”
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