Birmingham County Football Association install Solar PV to progress their sustainability goals, decrease carbon emissions and reduce electric costs.
Birmingham County FA has recently installed a Solar PV System on its Head Quarters at Ray Hall Lane, Birmingham as part of its commitment today sustainability and reducing their carbon footprint.
The 20kWp roof-mounted Solar PV System, sized to maximise renewable generation from solar will save BCFA HQ 17,000 kWh per annum of electricity from the grid or estimated 4 tonnes of CO2 / per annum.
Richard Lindsay, Business Insights Manager at BCFA and Lead on Save Today, Play Tomorrow said, ‘We are delighted with the installation of Solar PV at our headquarters, which will reduce operational costs of energy from grid and confirm our commitment to sustainability by reducing our carbon footprint. Working with UtilityWorks who helped deploy the Solar PV Project and who lead on the BCFA Energy Campaign with us, cements our partnership, and demonstrates what the programme can deliver to our club members’.
The 20kWp roof-mounted Solar PV System will see a return on investment for the County FA in under 3 years with rising energy costs.
About Birmingham County FA
Birmingham County Football Association are one of the largest regional governing bodies in the English Football Associations network of 49 organisations. Unlike the name suggests they cover the 3 main cities in the West Midlands, namely Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Coventry but their reach extends into the Black Country, Walsall, Warwickshire, Tamworth and into East Staffordshire.
The membership includes 1200 football clubs, 7 of which are professional, but the majority fall under what is more commonly known as “Grassroots”. This number of clubs equates to 5200 teams, 1200 match officials, 25,000 volunteers and coaches, and upwards of 80,000 players regularly participating in all formats of the game. Within the region over 48,000 affiliated games happen each season.
The Economic Report for Football published by the Football Association in 2019 estimated that for the region, through social and economic value grassroots football generated c.£522 million to the local economy each season.
On June 8th, 2021, they proudly launched Save Today, Play Tomorrow the first-of-its-kind sustainability programme in the UK that looks to empower and engender grassroots football to support the ambitious goal of creating a low-carbon greener game across the region.
As a regional governing body, they recognise the need to act now to ensure the beautiful game significantly reduces its environmental impact, whilst helping to educate those involved in football at all levels to make informed decisions that will shape how much future generations will be able to enjoy and sustain the game in the long term.
The programme is made up of 4 workstreams that are aligned to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. These are Health and Well-being; Positive Education; Climate Action; and Reconnecting Football with Nature (Biodiversity).
In February 2021, to coincide with this work Birmingham County FA were accepted as participatory members of the UN’s Sport for Climate Action Framework, the first County FA to do so, joining the likes of Liverpool FC, Tottenham FC, the Olympics Committee and over 270 other national and international sports organisations in using the power of sport to combat climate change. Subsequently, we have accelerated our commitment by joining Race to Zero committing to Net Zero by 2040 A fundamental element of the organisations journey to Net Zero has been the recent installation of a Solar PV System at its facility in Great Barr, Birmingham
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