The 37-foot Green Monster wall at Boston’s Fenway Park is famous for reducing a batter’s chance at hitting a home run, but now the park is getting something even greener that is going to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions of the park by 18 tons per year.
The famous baseball stadium that has hosted ten World Series has just installed a solar heating system that consists of 28 Heliodyne solar hot water collectors and four 400-gallon storage tanks. The Red Sox will be the first team in Major League Baseball to have a solar thermal system at their ballpark.
This eco-friendly makeover is part of Boston’s 2-year citywide initiative to support alternative energy sources.The initiative, called the Solar Boston program, costs $600,000, and its goal is to increase the city's solar power output by 50 times its current level by 2015.
The solar panels were manufactured by Heliodyne Inc. of Richmond, California, a company that develops top-performing solar hot water systems. 
They were installed by groSolar, a company that provides photovoltaic (PV) cells for homes and businesses. The solar-heated water will not only be used for the stadium, but also for all the restaurants located on the park’s lower level.
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The use of this solar-heated water system will reduce the park’s average gas consumption by one-third.
Maybe this initiative will inspire the Red Sox players to go green on a personal level and help off set there own carbon foot print.
This is a great way to save energy, and we hope other organizations will adopt the initiative.
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