A parking lot with 90,000 solar panels has been opened in the parking lot at a large festival site in Biddinghuizen. The construction of the so-called solar carport is an initiative of the Lowlands pop festival, which is organized on the site.
It concerns a roof with solar panels that generate electricity and where cars can park under. The solar parking lot is more than a kilometer by half a kilometer in size and generates enough green electricity for 10,000 households. All solar energy goes directly to the grid.
The aim of the festival management is to eventually connect the solar park to a battery, so that Lowlands can run entirely on green energy within two years and no longer needs generators to provide the festival with power. The festival itself needs 1 percent of all electricity generated by the solar panels for this.
‘Super important’
Lowlands director Eric van Eerdenburg says he has been working for fifteen years to get the solar park near the festival site. “We want to be part of the solution, not the problem,” he tells Broadcasting Flevoland† “It is super important for our young audience, for the future of the Netherlands, for green energy and a better future.”
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