NHL’s Seattle Kraken First Pro Sports Team to Play in Net-Zero Carbon Arena

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The Seattle Kraken are an expansion team in the National Hockey League, but they are already scoring goals in the environmental world.
The ice hockey team claims their home ice, the appropriately named Climate Pledge Arena, is the world’s first carbon-free arena, according to a USA Today article. Oak View Group owns the arena and says the house in Kraken will follow the guidelines of the International Living Future Institute.
To be climate-neutral, an arena must:

• No fossil fuels
• Have renewable energy resources
• Obtain the rest of the energy from other renewable sources
• Submit a detailed billing of the CO2 emissions of the building operation and prove that these are offset.

The article describes some of the steps the team and arena group took to achieve net-zero status:

• Ice will come from recycled rainwater
• The Zamboni ice cleaning system is powered by electricity
• The lighting, display panel, kitchen grills and deep fryers are powered by renewable energy from solar farms
• No single-use plastic items
• Unused food is donated to animal shelters and food banks

The Kraken play in a renovated arena that included a $ 50 million renovation that included tearing down gas pipes to meet the zero-carbon qualification.

The roof collects rainwater and recycles it to be used for the ice sheet and the water for the zamboni. The process is expected to save Seattle 50,000 gallons of water annually. In the future, it is also planned that fans will donate recycled rainwater for the ice.

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