Julie’s Bicycle, DeMontfort University, the Environmental Change Institute and Midas UK team up behind an energy monitoring project calling for festival organisers to get involved.

As part of the initiative, festivals can take advantage of discounts on cutting edge monitoring equipment and receive free advice on how to reduce energy, costs and carbon emissions.

Why do it?
Generators are often oversized. By monitoring [performance] participants will be able to better understand how power is being managed and identify changes to reduce costs and carbon emissions. Research suggests they should save a minimum 10 per cent on their fuel bill.

Power is a significant cost to events and fuel prices are set to rise by an average of 14 per cent annually. In many other areas of life, being aware of energy consumption is becoming normal. This is not the case for the festival industry and the Powerful Thinking campaign aims to provide the information support and resources to help the [sector] to realise a smarter approach.

“To reduce emissions and fuel bills we need to get more savvy about how we are managing energy,” Chris Johnson, chair of Powerful Thinking and director of Shambala Festival, said. “The first step is monitoring, so we know where we’re starting from.” 

More information is at: http://www.juliesbicycle.com/media/campaigns/powerfulthinking/Know_your_Power_2013_Info.pdf