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Sunday’s Super Bowl saw the Kansas City Chiefs become the first back-to-back Super Bowl champion in two decades. While the Chiefs fans have something to celebrate this week, the game was also a major win for sustainable energy — Super Bowl LVIII was the first powered entirely by renewable energy sources.
How a local renewable energy project powered the Super Bowl
Allegiant Stadium, the home of the Las Vegas Raiders and host of this year’s big game, supplies its power from NV Energy’s Arrow Canyon Solar and Battery Energy Storage System. The 200 MW solar array and 375 MWh battery storage project is located in Moapa, Nevada, within the Mojave Desert, and was developed by solar provider EDF Renewables and Powin, a leading provider of grid-scale energy storage solutions. Made up of…
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