Grid Faeries power the LIDO festival to sustainable success
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The recent LIDO 2025 festival in London鈥檚 Victoria Park ran over two weekends in June, featuring a host of amazing headliners and supporting acts, including Jamie xx, Charli XCX and London Grammar.
But there was another star of the show hiding behind the scenes, powering all these acts with clean, green, battery energy.
In a first for outdoor music in the capital, powered the main stage and parts of the site with renewable electricity, demonstrating how a mainstream London festival can radically reduce its carbon footprint without compromising on safety, quality or experience.
On 6 June, Massive Attack鈥檚 headline show saw the entire event site operated for more than 32 hours on battery power alone, just green energy and no generator noise or pollution to ruin the vibe.
Our founder, Dale Vince says: 鈥淟IDO was a first for London, an outdoor, main stage, run entirely on green energy, and it won鈥檛 be the last. It鈥檚 time to get diesel out of our festivals. Grid Faeries x Ecotricity are here to show how there鈥檚 another way to power the live music scene.鈥�
The Grid Faeries mission
Britain鈥檚 festivals burn millions of litres of diesel every year, just to make electricity. The Grid Faeries mission is to end the use of diesel at festivals and outdoor events by providing green battery power now and, in the long term, connecting annual festival sites to the grid.
The LIDO festival marked the latest appearance of the Grid Faeries on their tour of Britain鈥檚 music events. Their next stop is Glastonbury, then it鈥檚 back to London for the All Points East festival in August, with headline acts including Cleo Sol, Raye and The Maccabees.
Grid Faeries and A Greener Future Co-Founder Claire O'Neill said: 鈥淟IDO was a landmark moment for green festivals. 皇冠体育app鈥檝e shown that world class headline acts can be powered cleanly, and that 'business as usual' is no longer good enough.鈥�
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