Could Etihad Stadium go solar?

Manchester City's Etihad Stadium is capped by a sweeping cable-stayed roof that rings the bowl. Across roughly 25,000 sq m of that structure, a full-roof solar array is estimated at a theoretical ~3.7 MW — theoretical rather than promised — producing somewhere between 2.6 and 3.2 million kWh a year. At Manchester's ~890 sunshine hours, that still stacks up to around 1,060 homes' electricity.

Drag the handle — aerial photo left, Google Solar's measured annual sun intensity right. Brighter means more energy landing per square metre.

Roof area read from above: ~25,108 m².Imagery dated 2024-10-13.

Full methodology, assumptions and cross-checks: how we measure. Includes solar data from Google.

Etihad Stadium from above

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