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On the longest day of the year and the beginning of the summer, Monday 21 June, Nuon officially opened the solar island in Almere. The solar island comprises 520 solar collectors with a total surface area of 7,000 m2. These collectors capture the heat of the sun and heat cold water to a temperature of 70 degrees Celsius, thereby providing heating to 2,700 homes in the adjacent new residential district Noorderplassen West. The solar collectors on the sun island will generate 9,750 Gigajoules of renewable energy every year. That is sufficient for around 10 per cent of the heating requirements of the Noorderplassen-West residential district. The homes receive the other 90 per cent of the heating in the form of residual heat from the co-generation plant in Almere. Through the use of these renewable heat sources the CO2 emissions in Noorderplassen-West will be more than 50 per cent lower than in districts where the homes are heated by gas.