Festival Season Shows The Benefits Of Portable Generator Hire

Date: 17/07/23

With the festival season in full swing, it’s easy to see the good and the bad of setting up a temporary site. But what can construction sites and road and rail projects learn from the travelling circuses of the thriving British music festival scene?

The biggest audience

The UK music festival industry is huge, and it’s growing all the time. It is estimated that around five million people will attend a festival of some sort this summer. But if you’ve ever seen the clean-up crew in action after the raucous revellers have left, you’ll know these happy gatherings are not always so happy for the environment.

It is estimated that UK festivals produce 25,000 tonnes of waste and 24,000 tonnes of CO2 every summer. Fortunately, they are well aware of this, and they’re doing everything they can to put things right. By taking the Festival Vision 2025 pledge, more than 100 of Britain’s biggest festivals have committed to cutting both waste and carbon emissions by 2025.

Glastonbury leads the way

Just as it does with festivals overall, Glastonbury is leading the way in sustainable entertainment. The Worthy Farm gathering has a total ban on plastic sales, cutting plastic bottle waste from over a million bottles in 2017 to none at all in 2019. They also recycle or reuse over half of the waste produced by the 200,000 attendees.

Showing the way forward for any company working in the field, whether at a festival or a rail-side repair, Glastonbury also produces its own electricity. In fact, it has one of the UK’s largest solar installations. There are no less than 1316 solar panels at Worthy Farm, producing the 30,000kW needed for the festival, plus over 175,000kW to spare.

Thanks to this, and many other environmentally friendly policies, Glastonbury’s carbon footprint is rated at -596 tonnes of CO2. That’s not a typo! The 200,000 people attending Glastonbury produce nearly 600 tonnes of CO2 LESS than they would have if they’d stayed at home.

Join the Glastonbury line-up with Think Hire

While we can’t promise to put you on the Pyramid Stage alongside Elton John, Think Hire can help you share Glastonbury’s success with solar power to reduce your CO2 emissions. Our extensive range of environmentally friendly plant and facilities hire includes the very latest in solar powered portable generator hire, as well as hybrid portable generator hire with the reassurance of a built-in back-up diesel generator.

Think Hire can help you to use light to power your lights too, with solar powered site lighting that operates effectively all year round, even on the greyest of days. Just like Glastonbury, these incorporate energy efficient LEDs to maximise the use of the available resources and minimise emissions.

Think Hire on tour

Just like the summer festivals, Think Hire installations are popping up all over the country, even in the most remote and unexpected places. Our portable generator hire lives up to its name, because it can be delivered to almost any site, anywhere. A compact, containerised design means Think Hire’s Solartainer portable generator hire can go wherever a delivery lorry can go, and it needs no special groundworks or foundations. This can then be used to power rugged battery packs that can go even further, bringing power to all corners of your site in all areas of the country.

Discover a festival of savings

With everything from portable generator hire to solar powered site lighting, electric vehicle and plant charging to eco-site accommodation, Think Hire has quite the line-up this summer. Join our festival of savings and you can cut your emissions and your operating costs – guaranteed.

To find out more, visit our website, complete the contact form or simply give us a call on 0330 133 2222.

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