A New Kind of Power at the 2025 GoPro Mountain Games
Every June, the GoPro Mountain Games transforms Vail into a pulse of movement: athletes climbing, paddling, biking, and running across one of the most scenic backdrops in the country.
But beneath the adrenaline and energy drinks, something quieter happened this year. A small shift. The kind that points toward a different kind of future. For the first time in the event’s history, one of the GoPro Mountain Game venues ran entirely on solar power!
And nestled in the heart of that effort was a Sol-Ark® 15K-2P Whole Home hybrid inverter, powering a tent used by staff and athletes. We helped to charge radios, tools, lights, and devices that kept the event humming behind the scenes.
SUPPORTING ENERGY & ENVIRNOMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY.
NOT THE SPOTLIGHT.
This installation was about utility and supporting a great mission. Both Sol-Ark® and GoPro Mountain Games wanted to show what’s possible when clean power meets community infrastructure.
The Mountain Games modeled what sustainable logistics can look like at scale:
- 188kWh of solar power delivered
- 165 lbs of coal avoided
- 340 lbs of CO₂ kept out of the atmosphere
- 235 gallons of water saved
- Equivalent of 380 driving miles offset
But numbers alone don’t capture what really matters. Because the impact doesn’t end when the tents come down.
It continues in the choices the organizers will make next year. In the way volunteers now talk about clean energy.
Sol-Ark® didn’t just donate an inverter. We helped seed a future where renewable energy isn’t just the right thing to do; it’s the expected thing to do.
The GoPro Mountain Games showed what can happen when clean energy is integrated seamlessly into a major event. And when other organizers or communities look to this event as a model, we hope they ask: How can we do something like that?
