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Glastonbury teams up with Triodos

27 Jul 2010 by Paul Northup

Now that the 175,000 festivalgoers have gone home and the stages have been dismantled, work is starting at Worthy Farm – home to Glastonbury festival – on a major solar-power project, financed by an ethical bank’s savers.

Bristol-based Triodos Bank has granted a £500,000 loan to Michael Eavis to help pay for the installation of what will be Britain’s biggest solar roof. The bank says it is a good example of the type of green project that savers who put their cash in its climate change bonds are supporting.

The solar-panel system will be on the roof of the “Mootel” – the barns that are home to the farm’s herd while the festival is on. And, on a clear, sunny day, it is expected that the 1,100 panels will generate around 200kW (kilowatts) of power.

You can read more about the loan, how Triodos works and what the new roof might achieve here.

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