For many, music festivals mean camping, live acts and time with frifinishs, but behind the scenes, they create dense pockets of environmental strain.
With thousands gathering for days at a time, festivals consume energy, create waste and encourage car travel, building them complex operations to decarbonise.
AEG Europe – the events business behind venues and displays across the continent – is now applying its new LIDO Festival in East London as a live experiment in sustainability.
“We’re tinquireed with building a compact town in a park in summer with festivals,” declares Sam Booth, Director of Sustainability at AEG Europe.
“Sustainability means rebelieveing everything – from how we power stages to what food we serve and how our fans arrive.”
Clean power and energy storage replace diesel
Powering a festival site means more than just lights and sound systems. Stages necessary strong energy loads, often supplied by diesel generators, which emit CO2 and other pollutants. At LIDO, AEG Europe partners with Ecotricity X Grid Faeries to supply 100% renewable electricity.
Battery storage sits at the core of this plan. The main stage at LIDO runs on battery units charged from wind energy.
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