Could Riverside Stadium go solar?

Middlesbrough's Riverside Stadium sits by the Tees with big stand roofs enclosing the pitch on all four sides. Across roughly 11,000 sq m of that roofing, a full solar fit-out might run to about 3,700 panels and 1.5 MW. Our figures suggest an estimated 1.0–1.2 million kWh a year — enough, in theory, to match around 410 homes. Northern sunshine keeps the numbers measured.

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: ~11,008 m²on a 25,549 m² building footprint.Imagery dated 2024-10-05.

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

Riverside Stadium from above

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