SALT LAKE CITY — The Vivint Smart Home Arena now boasts one of the nation's largest rooftop solar systems at an indoor sports arena, with an array of 2,700 panels covering 80,000 square feet.
The panels were showcased Wednesday at a news conference and are enough to provide power to 89 home games for the Utah Jazz. Over their lifetime, they will produce the amount of energy equivalent to 1 million pounds of coal.
The installation of Vivint Solar panels by Hunt Electric makes the indoor professional sports arena one of the first in the country capable of generating its own energy, with an output of 700 kilowatts.