Boston Red Sox’s Fenway Park now has more green than just their field and their 37 foot, two inch left field wall, nicknamed the Green Monster. The major league baseball stadium has been undergoing an environmentally friendly makeover that includes the installation of a solar hot water system by groSolar, North America’s premier distributor, installer and integrator of solar power solutions for homes and businesses.
The solar hot-water system is part of the Solar Boston program, a 2-year, $600,000 initiative to increase the city’s solar energy output 50-fold by 2015. Solar Boston will help the city respond to climate change, rising fuel price and the need for energy independence by supporting the development of clean, alternative sources of energy citywide.
groSolar installed 28 Heliodyne solar hot water collectors and four 400 gallon storage tanks that are tied to Fenway’s existing water system. The solar-heated water will supply the park and the restaurants on the lower levels of Fenway, and is expected to reduce the park’s annual carbon dioxide emissions by roughly 18 tons.