Santa Clara, CA

Unlike the Superdome, Santa Clara city officials guarantees no power interruption if the NFL picks the San Francisco 49ers' new stadium as venue for Super Bowl 50.

"Could this happen at the Santa Clara stadium? The short answer is, 'no'," Santa Clara city spokesman Dan Beerman said, referring to the power outage that delayed the Super Bowl game by 34 minutes.

According to Beerman, what happened in New Orleans will not happen in the new stadium as it is equipped with its own power plant and electricity service.

Beerman made the declaration ahead of the NFL team owners' meeting on May 31 to select between the Santa Clara stadium and Sun Life stadium in Miami as host of Super Bowl L in 2016.

"I'm sure we will have talks with the NFL about it, and I'm sure our bid will highlight all the things we can do to make sure that is something that will not happen here," Daniel Lurie, head of the Bay Area's Super Bowl bid committee, said.

The 49ers new $1.2 billion stadium will be powered by two new electrical substations near the stadium adjacent to the Great America theme park.

Only one substation is needed to power the 68,500-seat stadium, but if one fails, a second one nearby will automatically switch on, according to utility's customer services manager Larry Owens.

"If both of them fail, a manual switch can trigger a third power source," Owens said.

Similar substations routinely feed electricity to major companies such as Intel and Yahoo, which require much more power than an NFL stadium and have gone without an outage in years.

 

 

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