Being in general illiterate in all things not-American-football (a.k.a., soccer), it’s likely many of us are clueless as to Euro 2008, the European Football Championship happening in Austria and Switzerland this June. The fact that the U.S. is not involved in the contest (hence the name), may not help its stateside popularity. But that’s no reason not to sit up and take notice of the Stade de Suisse football stadium, the home field for Swiss football team the BSC Young Boys. These Young Boys have bragging rights for the biggest solar photovoltaic system of any sports stadium in the world thanks to the Stade de Suisse adding extra solar panels last summer. Its overall power output of 1,134,045 kWh per year equals the power of about 350 four-person households. The solar roof, which has won awards from the European Association for Renewable Energy, cost .86 million to construct, and features 86,112 square feet of solar panels. It uses most of the solar power it produces itself.
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