Could Riverside Museum, Glasgow go solar?
The Riverside Museum is one of the newer buildings here, and its potential comes with a twist: Zaha Hadid's zinc roof zig-zags in a continuous wave, brilliant to look at but awkward to panel. Across its 12,000 sq m the read still lands near 1.1 MW — about 2,800 panels and 700,000–870,000 kWh a year on the Clyde.
Roof area read from above: ~12,162 m²on a 7,510 m² building footprint.Imagery dated 2023-06-02.
Full methodology, assumptions and cross-checks: how we measure. Includes solar data from Google.
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