80 percent more energy efficiency for British Summer Time.
Efficient microgrid for British Summer Time
During the British Summer Time festival, London’s Hyde Park welcomes some of the world’s biggest music acts over three weekends. A robust energy supply is of vital importance for the organization. To guarantee safety during a possible emergency, but also, for example, to ensure that their catering is at all times able to generate turnover at a high pace.
Greener’s batteries provided energy for the backstage and production area, including the dressing rooms, crew catering and the control center from where all festival communications took place. To create a buffer, our batteries were linked to the festival’s generators via our new microgrid technology. This way, the battery could replace the generator if something went wrong with it, and vice versa. Comparing the energy consumption data with that of last year’s edition shows some great results. Adding our batteries to the energy system has resulted in an efficiency increase of 80 percent. In 2022, each liter of fuel still produced 2.1 kW/h, in 2023 this had increased to 3.7 kW/h.
Hydrogen cell as power source for LAUTFEUER
The LAUTFEUER Festival | Abifestival seit 1981 e.V. is an outdoors festival, which has been organised for over 40 years by a team of volunteers. They were exploring sustainable options for their energy supply. Their solution? Hydrogen cells in combination with one of our batteries.
After testing the use of a hydrogen cell for the first time last year, this year’s set-up included two hydrogen generators. The generators were able to meet the high power demand of the festival without a grid connection even during peak hours, reaching as high as 200 kVA. Our mobile battery system stored the electricity generated by the hydrogen cells. Additionally, the software smartly controlled the generation of power to ensure that the generators only ran when necessary to maximise efficiency.
The hydrogen generators were provided by H2SYS and the green hydrogen was supplied by Westfalen AG. The generators powered not only the complete aftershow but also the bar and multiple stands.
The festival was supported by H2-Region Emsland and Westenergie.
Peakshaving and valuable data for Roskilde
The Danish Roskilde Festival is one of the largest pop festivals in Europe, with around 100,000 visitors. The organization aims to create a festival that is as sustainable as possible. This year they brought in Greener to help make their energy approach even more sustainable. There is a large mains connection for most of the festival grounds, but a backup power supply is required for emergencies. In addition, the catering square needed extra power for the peak times when many festival goers went to eat all at once.
Greener’s batteries have served as a backup at four stages and replaced the diesel generators that were previously used. In addition, we have made it possible to coordinate supply and demand as closely as possible at the catering square through peak shaving. Thanks to the use of Greener’s batteries, diesel generators were no longer needed as a backup. And thanks to the data we have collected on the energy consumption, the festival organization now has valuable data it can use when evaluating with the local power supplier.