Kim Middelkamp director New Business at Sallandse Wegenbouw

‘Using artificial sports fields to generate renewable energy is so logical!’

Sallandse United, SuperSub SportSystems and Unica Energy Solutions have joined forces for an innovative, sustainable project. The three companies are working together on a system for harvesting and utilising energy from artificial grass pitches. In the autumn of 2022, a pilot was run at football club Be Quick ‘28 in Zwolle with what they named a collector pitch. The results of this first practical test exceeded expectations.

‘The collector pitch is a valuable piece of the puzzle in the energy transition’

“There are so many things in the world that we cannot influence. And that is what makes it so exciting as an SME enterprise in the eastern Netherlands to have the opportunity to investigate new possibilities. And to prove that they are feasible,” says Kim Middelkamp, director New Business at Sallandse Wegenbouw. “With the collector pitch, we have laid one more valuable piece of the energy transition puzzle.”

Read the full interview at jaarverslag.unica.nl.