Retail Supplier To Provide Local Solar Power To Verizon Center

Monumental Sports & Entertainment and WGL Energy Services, Inc. announced a partnership that will allow Verizon Center, home to the Washington Wizards, Capitals, Mystics and Valor, to purchase power from a new solar facility in Maryland.

The solar electricity purchased by Monumental Sports & Entertainment to power Verizon Center will be sourced from an offsite, third-party owned solar facility in Frederick County, Md., and bundled with national solar renewable energy credits, allowing the sports and entertainment facility to operate using 25 percent solar energy, WGL Energy said

Beginning in late 2017, Verizon Center will receive about 4.7 million kWh per year of energy from 3.5 MW of the solar project.

WGL has served as the official energy and greening partner of Verizon Center since 2015.