Middlesbrough agree deal to power stadium using wind energy

Middlesbrough

Championship club Middlesbrough has agreed a multi-million scheme to use wind energy to power the club to sell-sufficiency.

Empowering Wind Group, a London based renewable energy developers will install a wind turbine in the Riverside Stadium’s car park as a part of the scheme. The turbine will also start generating electricity from May 2014.

“We are delighted to launch this pioneering initiative in association with Empowering Wind, which gives us a major environmental lead in football. Energy consumption is a key factor for all businesses and we have worked incredibly hard in recent years to reduce our costs significantly,” said Middlesbrough’s chief executive, Neil Bausor.

“It is exciting to think we will become the UK’s first football club to have a completely sustainable energy consumption Programme,” he added.

The turbine is expected to provide power for the stadium for the next 20 years and thereby replacing the current system which draws the electricity from the National Grid.

Empowering Wind’s chief executive, Paul Millinder said that the club needs to be congratulated for the initiative.

“Middlesbrough FC needs congratulating on its far-sightedness in launching this pioneering long-term initiative with us, which is the first of its kind in Europe and possibly worldwide. The Middlesbrough wind turbine demonstrates our strategy of specialising in embedded power generation and developing renewable energy where it is needed,” he said.