On the eve of the American holiday Thanksgiving, Vatican City in Italy has gone green by installing renewable solar panels on the rooftop of one of the city’s buildings. The rooftop in question is the Saint Paul Auditorium, where approximately 2500 panels were installed over a 5000 square meter roof. This will enable the building to produce roughly 300 megawatts of electricity a year, which is a considerable amount.

Cost on the solar panels equaled zero dollars and were donated by Solarworld a German company and was given the blessing by current Pope John Benedict XVI. Vatican city “plans to have enough renewable energy sources to provide 20 percent of its needs by 2020″. This would fall in line with a European Union target that was recently established.

Sources: Yahoo News