Lord's Cricket Ground to fully function on sustainable energy

The floods in 2015 caused a lot of damage to cricket clubs all over England. Keeping this is mind, the Mecca of Cricket, Lord’s Cricket Ground has gone under serious changes. Among the major upgradations, the whole ground will now run on renewable energy. The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) owned 200 years old ground went all green.

Derek Brewer, the Chief Executive and secretary of MCC emphasized on the fact that sustainability is to be embraced by everyone. He said, “It is important that all organizations embrace sustainability.”

The floods incurred a lot of losses. Around £3.5m worth of losses were reported to ECB. The England Cricket Board has been very supportive and has helped the clubs that suffered heavily. They released a total of £2.6m as help for all the 57 clubs and out of the £2.6m, £1m pounds were immediately released as an emergency funding and the other £1.6m were released last year.

Brewer praised ECB for its work and said that the changing weathers can have a bad effect on cricket. He said: “The statistics released today illustrate the effect that changing weather patterns can have on cricket, and the ECB deserve a lot of praise for the support they give clubs across the country that are so badly affected by extreme weather.” All the clubs should take the weather into matter as the changing effects do not give a good sign to anyone. There is a lot of work to be done by each and every club to create the necessary awareness about climate change.

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Talking about Lord’s Cricket Ground, it is the first ever stadium in the United Kingdom to fully function on sustainable energy. Brewer proudly stated, “I’m very pleased that Lord’s has become the first cricket ground in the country to run on 100% renewable energy.”

The new Warner stand which is erected will be inaugurated in April this year. The whole stand works on solar PV roof. It also has a water collection and a recycling system set up within itself. The highly equipped and maintained ground is even more furnished now. The target of MCC is to use 7% less energy by 2020 than they used in 2010.