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Stadium Experience welcomes 60th member!


Gloucester Rugby Club – Kingsholm Stadium


Stadium Experience has welcomed it’s 60th club to join the consortium for the first time ever! Three major stadium venues have joined Stadium Experience in the last month. These include Gloucester Rugby Club (Kingsholm Stadium), Harlequins Rugby Club (Twickenham Stoop Stadium), and Scunthorpe United Football Club (Glanford Park Stadium). The new additions take the total membership of Stadium Experience to 60 football and rugby clubs, located at 54 stadium venues across the UK & Ireland. Stadium Experience is a not-for-profit


marketing consortium and aims to share best practice and promote stadia as unique and prestigious venues for meetings, conferences and events. The group has increased its membership dramatically in the last few years, with 20 new members in the last 20 months. The other new members include; AFC Fylde, Arsenal Football Club, Aviva Stadium, Croke Park Stadium, Ipswich Town Football Club, Leeds United Football Club, Manchester United Football Club, Munster Rugby, Notts County Football Club, St. George’s Park, St. Helens Rugby Club, Stoke City Football Club, Swansea


City Association Football Club, Ospreys Rugby, West Bromwich Albion Football Club, West Ham United Football Club, and Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club. Here’s a little more on our newest three venues:


For more details on joining


Stadium Experience, please visit: www.stadiumexperience.com For further information, please


contact: Debbie Rigney, Marketing & PR Manager, Stadium Experience office@ stadiumexperience.com or 0345 226 5494.


Arsenal saves energy off the pitch with battery powered stadium


The battery is capable of powering Arsenal's 60,000 seat stadium for a whole match. Arsenal has become the UK's first


football club to be completely powered by battery, with the installation of a new energy storage system. Positioned in the basement at the Emirates Stadium, the battery is capable of powering the 60,000 seat stadium for an entire match, the equivalent of 2,700 homes for two hours. The Gunners’ home is one of the biggest stadiums in the UK, with energy spikes coming on match days, but every day, energy is needed for refrigeration, offices and growing lights to maintain the pitch. The club has already made big changes to


reduce its environmental impact. The stadium has been part powered


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by green energy since 2017, around 80% of match-day waste is recycled and LED floodlights have reduced floodlight energy consumption by 30%. Arsenal managing director Vinai


Venkatesham said: "This is a big step forwards for us in being efficient with energy usage and building on our work in reducing our carbon footprint as an organisation.'' Matt Allen, Chief Executive of energy firm


Pivot Power, which installed the battery, said: “Arsenal is showing how football clubs and other big power users can save money and support government plans to meet climate change targets. "Batteries are central to creating a


cost-effective, low-carbon economy and we are keen to help government, local authorities and businesses


seize the opportunities they offer.” The battery storage system will operate


for 15 years and generate income by providing services to the National Grid to help it balance supply and demand. Minister for the Department of Business,


Energy and Industry Strategy, Claire Perry hailed Arsenal for "truly moving the goal posts when it comes to energy efficiency at the Emirates Stadium. "This project scores the hat-trick of


tackling peak prices and storing clean energy, with the goal of selling back energy to the grid at peak times. "A more flexible energy grid could save


the UK billions and this kind of cutting-edge technology shows companies the potential of being part of the beautiful game of smarter energy systems.”


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