This Summer season, we teamed up with Timber Competition to supercharge individuals’s telephones with clear inexperienced renewable power within the coronary heart of the Nationwide Forest.
The stress-free of covid restrictions has introduced many issues, and one thing to definitely rejoice has been the return of festivals. This summer time Octopus went alongside to Timber competition– a wonderful three days of celebration, debate and reflection within the coronary heart of the Nationwide Forest – and introduced some renewable belongings with us. The competition takes place in Feanedock, an space of reforested land which exhibits the success of the Nationwide Forest’s daring environmental venture.
In partnership with our expensive pals at GivEnergy, we erected a dozen photo voltaic panels on website at Timber and used them to cost competition goers’ telephones over the three days. An enormous shout out to our sensible subject gross sales crew who held the fort, taking care of tons of of cables and telephones. Our very personal tech evangelist, Phil Steele even customized constructed a bicycle powered power generator for viewers members to have a go at creating their very own electrical energy.
One of many causes we wished to trial bringing our personal renewable energy as a part of our partnership with Timber is as a result of the competition business as a complete has been notoriously tough to run on renewable power. Festivals usually happen in giant open areas that are nice for dancing however not so nice for grid connections. The ‘pop up’ nature of festivals in lush secluded fields and expansive rolling hills signifies that they’re usually additionally in power deserts. What’s extra, a competition organiser’s worst nightmare is the ability reducing out throughout their Saturday night time headliner, so a transfer away from dependable diesel turbines has many challenges.
However change is afoot and rising consciousness of the unfolding local weather emergency has been mirrored in recent times within the outside occasions neighborhood. Greater than 100 organisations are dedicated environmental motion via Imaginative and prescient:2025, which goals to realize a 50% discount in outside event-related greenhouse fuel emissions by that yr.
The best priorities for motion proceed to be tackling waste, power use, and viewers journey however an business survey carried out yearly since 2015 exhibits important progress in motion to handle these areas.
This yr our companions at Timber Competition launched battery storage models to retailer surplus power produced by turbines – permitting them to show off turbines in a single day. They used
PV panels and turbine techniques to run some areas of website and achieved an 18% discount in gasoline utilization on website, which is implausible information.
There’s nonetheless an extended technique to go for the business as a complete however Octopus’ presence at Timber Competition was an necessary first foray for the organisation and we really feel proud to be becoming a member of the march for a cleaner, greener method of powering such occasions.
Would you prefer to be within the probability with profitable 1 x weekend household ticket (2 adults, 2 kids) for Timber 2022? Electronic mail us to use!
Ts&Cs – tickets embrace competition entry and tenting Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights (carry personal tenting gear). Journey to/from the competition, meals/drink, not included. Entrants should be 18+. Prize is non-refundable, non-transferable, non-exchangeable and no money various provided.
