On the way with the Climate Action Plan: Large solar panel installation opens in Roskilde
On 5th September, a 1,708 square metre large solar panel installation opened at AU Roskilde, where the Department of Environmental Science, the Department of Ecoscience, and DCE - Danish Centre For Environment And Energy are located. The installation is part of AU’s Climate Action Plan 2024, and more solar panels are on the way to other Tech locations.
349,008 kWh per year. That is the expected yield of green energy from the 875 solar panels recently installed at AU Roskilde. The solar panels are placed on the roofs of five buildings that house colleagues from Department of Environmental Science, Department of Ecoscience, and DCE.
“It is wonderful that the solar panel project in Roskilde has progressed to the point where it can be put into use. The university has a responsibility for green transition, and we want to engage in developing society in a sustainable direction,” says Tech’s Dean, Eskild Holm Nielsen.
Plans for more solar panels on the roofs of AU’s buildings are outlined in the university’s Climate Action Plan 2024. At Tech, the next step is solar panels at AU Askov and eventually AU Flakkebjerg and AU Viborg.
“The solar panels in Roskilde are important for our climate strategy, and the large, freestanding buildings are ideal for solar panels. This is more challenging to establish in the centre of Aarhus,” says Eskild Holm Nielsen.
About AU’s Climate Action Plan
Aarhus University aims to be CO2-neutral by 2040. The goal for 2025 is to reduce the university’s CO2 emissions by 35% compared to 2018, and the goal for 2030 is to reduce the university’s CO2 emissions by 57% compared to 2018. With this goal, the university is aligning with the Paris Agreement and the government’s goal of reducing CO2 emissions by 70% by 2030 compared to 1990.