With the help of 90,000 solar panels, Solar Carport Biddinghuizen can provide about 10,000 households with green energy.Photo: SolarfieldsWith the help of 90,000 solar panels, the system provides a capacity of 35 MWp, which means that approximately 10,000 households can be supplied with green energy.This is equivalent to the power consumption of about 100 Lowlands weekends per year.The Solar Carport will remain permanently at this location.The Lowlands Festival takes place annually at a fixed location in Biddinghuizen.The organization has been working for years to make the festival more sustainable.Energy consumption remains a challenge here.Approximately 300,000 kWh of electricity is consumed per Lowlands edition.Almost all electricity is currently generated by generators.With the construction of the Solar Carport, the festival is making an enormous step towards sustainability.Under the leadership of Paul van Liempt, as part of the opening programme, substantive discussions were held with leading figures within the energy transition, including Marjan Minnesma and Tim Verbruggen.Important topics that were discussed related to the need for flexibility on the electricity grid and the laws and regulations surrounding sustainable solutions.An area fund has been made available from the proceeds of Solar Carport Biddinghuizen for the local environment.Ton van Amerongen, alderman of the municipality of Dronten, has symbolically handed over a first check for 10,000 euros to energy cooperative BEN.After this transfer it was up to comedian Dolf Jansen, himself a fervent environmental activist, who festively opened the solar park with a message of hope.[The text continues after the photo]Afterwards, visitors could network on the site, which had been temporarily renamed a mini festival site.From a temporary watchtower, interested parties could see the magnificence of the world's largest solar carport with their own eyes.Eric van Eerdenburg (director Lowlands): 'We are proud that this solar carport has been opened in collaboration with Solarfields after years of development.As a festival organization, we want to propagate an optimistic vision of the future and play a role in solving climate problems.We hope in this way to be a source of inspiration for our visitors to contribute – no matter how small – to making the world more sustainable'.Niek Tamminga (Director Rooftop): 'The realization of such a huge project is never without challenges.We are extremely grateful for the support we have had from governments to enable us to realize this textbook example of multiple land use with MOJO.We hope it will be the starting signal for combining parking with sustainable energy generation in more places in the Netherlands'.Solarfields is a producer of sustainable energy and realizes solar energy systems.The company is the market leader in large-scale ground-based solar parks.Solarfields realizes solar projects on various types of locations, such as land, roofs, former landfill sites and parking lots – with the aim of making the Netherlands more sustainable and supplying clean energy to 1 million households by 2030.Release: df8dd2d492c6af3f84fd6832ce28753cc0fd0ccf