Europe, in its bid to lower its greenhouse gas emissions to meet the Kyoto Protocol standards is venturing into producing renewable power from alternative energy sources. With wind as the key energy source at the coastal regions, sunlight seems to be growing as major inland sources of energy that can replace inefficient energy consumption derived from fossil fuels.
A new office complex in Madrid becomes the largest such solar-powered building in a bid to help save the planet from global warming — these inefficient and greenhouse gas emitting fossil-fuel power plants produce.
The Spain-based new office complex is Telefonica. This new Madrid office complex will be possessing more than 16,000 solar panels, as reported by the Cellular-News. The solar panels will be arranged along the length of the rooftops of the building’s entire office complex.
These panels, in all, will be able to generate approximately 3 mega-watts at peak power. This amounts to over 3.6 giga-watt hours per year!
This design will be able to reduce Telefonica’s winter heating bill by 15 percent. And, the summer months will see a 34 percent reduction in air conditioning.
This is a huge production for powering a building a year-round.
Via: Treehugger
