Friday, November 6

Tag: Sustainable Touring

Global News, Music & World Tours

Glastonbury Festival Implements 100% Renewable Off-Grid Micro-Battery Architecture

Concert arena tour performance with orchestra and spatial lighting LONDON — SOMERSET, England — Across the rolling pastures of Worthy Farm, nearly a quarter of a million festival-goers witnessed the complete elimination of industrial diesel power generators across the festival’s main stages. Through a partnership with regional clean energy cooperatives, Glastonbury successfully powered its iconic Pyramid Stage, lighting rigs, and sound systems using high-density off-grid battery arrays charged by local solar and wind installations. Silent Clean Power for the Pyramid Stage For decades, mega-festivals relied on hundreds of noisy diesel generators that consumed millions of liters of fossil fuel each summer. The new power architecture combines 40 megawatt-hours of modular battery ...