The GeoPura hydrogen-powered turbines work by utilising inexperienced hydrogen, produced by renewable power sources, to generate emission free electrical energy which is getting used to energy the published compound; watch the BMW PGA Championship dwell from Thursday on Sky Sports activities Golf
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Wentworth will likely be internet hosting a world first in TV manufacturing because the BMW PGA Championship 2023 will likely be ‘totally powered by inexperienced hydrogen’, creating zero carbon emissions
Wentworth will likely be internet hosting a world first in TV manufacturing because the BMW PGA Championship 2023 will likely be ‘totally powered by inexperienced hydrogen’, creating zero carbon emissions
Historical past will likely be made on the DP World Tour this week because the BMW PGA Championship turns into the primary sporting occasion to have its TV manufacturing solely powered by inexperienced hydrogen.
European Tour Productions and IMG are working with UK-based clear power firm GeoPura to produce two hydrogen-powered turbines (HPUs) that will likely be positioned on the sixth fairway on the Wentworth Membership.
It’s estimated that counting on HPUs will save a complete of 16.4 Tonnes of CO2 in comparison with the 2022 match. They’re used instead of excessive polluting diesel turbines and go away water as the one by-product, which means they produce zero emissions.
In a world first for a sporting occasion, the European Tour Productions and IMG led manufacturing will likely be powered 100 per cent by inexperienced hydrogen, producing zero emissions
The GeoPura HPU works by utilising inexperienced hydrogen, produced by renewable power sources, to generate emission free electrical energy which is getting used to energy the published compound.
The golf buggies used on the Rolex Sequence occasion, dwell from Thursday on Sky Sports activities, to switch individuals and gear throughout the positioning can even be recharged utilizing electrical energy generated through hydrogen for the primary time.
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These revolutionary developments type one other a part of the DP World Tour’s Inexperienced Drive initiative, which has seen the Tour change into the primary skilled golf tour to decide to being totally web zero carbon by 2040.
Richard Bunn, Managing Director of European Tour Productions, mentioned: “We’re all the time on the look out for brand new applied sciences that can us get to web zero carbon by 2040. Hydrogen is the way forward for energy distribution and has the additional benefit of being extra resilient than diesel items as a result of they’ve fewer shifting elements.
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Europe’s Ryder Cup stars are all in motion on the BMW PGA Championship, the flagship occasion of the DP World Tour calendar, with prolonged protection dwell on Sky Sports activities Golf
Europe’s Ryder Cup stars are all in motion on the BMW PGA Championship, the flagship occasion of the DP World Tour calendar, with prolonged protection dwell on Sky Sports activities Golf
“Taking this leap, a primary for our business, at such a high-profile Rolex Sequence match is an enormous assertion. That is simply the beginning, and the plan is to roll-out hydrogen energy throughout a number of tournaments in 2024.”
Along side IMG, European Tour Productions produces the dwell protection for DP World Tour occasions world wide, working alongside Sky Sports activities within the UK and NBC Golf Channel as producer of the US protection.
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Different sustainability-focused broadcast improvements embrace trialling distant productions for the primary time this season. Thus far, 5 tournaments on the 2023 DP World Tour schedule have been produced remotely from the European Tour Productions HQ at IMG Studios in Stockley Park and every saved roughly 87 tonnes of CO2.
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