Lowlands Festival - Solar Powered Eco Houses
Essent Energy, the largest producer of renewable power in Benelux, required a sustainable solution to power an interactive experience at Lowlands; the largest festival in the Netherlands.
Firefly installed a 15kVa solar powered supply that powered the experience for the entire event.
Lowlands is an annual music festival located in the Netherlands. The festival is one of the biggest in the country with over 60,000 visitors, 200 acts and more than ten stages every year. Lowlands festival started in 1967 and has since hosted some of the world’s most prestigious alternative acts and musicians. As well as music, Lowlands showcases a complete programme including stand-up comedy, film, visual arts, literature and theatre.
Essent is the leading producer of sustainable energy in the Netherlands. Essent strives to provide energy using the most affordable, reliable and sustainable means possible. At the same time, Essent continues to seek solutions that are better for people, the environment and society as a whole.
Unable to locate a suitable supplier within the Netherlands and then mainland Europe, Essent Energy approached Firefly as they required a renewable energy solution to power a large interactive exhibition.
Quickly deciding that the Firefly ‘Fold Array’ was ideal for this project, Firefly set to work on designing a sustainable power distribution system that combined: three of the Orion series of generators with a number of the aforementioned ‘Fold Arrays’. The Fold Arrays were adapted to be roof mounted onto the ‘flat pack houses’ designed by Essent for their interactive experience
Lowland’s festival attendees offset a total of 37,821 kg of CO2 demonstrating, both the extent to which the green festival movement is now spreading across international borders, and the public’s enthusiasm to take responsibility and make a difference.
