Live Nation Canada Marks Earth Week With New Sustainability Milestones at Rogers Stadium
Live Nation Canada is marking Earth Week by highlighting major progress underway at Rogers Stadium to reduce waste, cut single‑use plastics, and advance Green Nation, the company’s global commitment to lowering the environmental impact of live events. These efforts are made possible through close collaboration with partners across the venue, including Liberty Oak View Group, […]
How the BRIT Awards and Coldplay are leading sustainable touring with Hope Solutions
Sustainability is fast becoming one of the most urgent challenges facing the live music and events industry, with increasing pressure on artists, promoters and organisers to reduce environmental impact without compromising the scale and experience of modern productions. At the forefront of this shift are our friends Hope Solutions, a specialist consultancy working across music, media […]
Ultra’s battery-powered triumph: ‘This is the future of live’
The electronic festival recently made history by deploying a zero-emission battery system from Showpower at its US edition last month. Ultra Music Festival’s sustainability director has hailed battery-powered systems as “the future of live events” after successfully deploying a zero-emission power unit for a main stage. Last month, the major electronic event made history as […]
Hope Solutions and The Noise We Make with Paul Schurink Co-Founder of Showpower Global B.V.
What if the biggest shift in live events isn’t visible on stage, but happening behind the scenes? Showpower’s Paul Schurink is rethinking how live events are powered from the ground up. For decades, temporary power has been treated as a last-minute logistical decision — oversized systems, diesel dependency, and inefficiencies built in by default. Paul […]
Ultra Music Festival and Showpower make electronic festival history with battery-powered stage
The flashing lights and pulsating beats at Ultra Music Festival at Miami’s Bayfront Park will for the first time be powered by Showpower’s SmartGrid battery system. As the music festival kicks off this year it makes history, not for its music, but for sustainability. For the last 6 years Showpower have worked with Ultra Music […]
Ultra Music Festival to debut SmartGrid battery-powered stage in Miami this week
The RESISTANCE Cove Stage will run entirely on zero-emission power Ultra Music Festival will debut its first battery-powered stage this week, continuing its pursuit of becoming a more sustainably minded event. The RESISTANCE Cove Stage will be powered by the zero-emission Showpower SmartGrid™ battery system, and form part of Ultra’s Mission: Home sustainability initiative, which aims […]
Festival Republic claim ‘UK first’ with sustainability win installing mains grid connection at Finsbury Park
Live Nation’s Festival Republic and Haringey Council will bring mains electricity to Finsbury Park in bid to reduce carbon emissions, setting a precedent for UK festival organisers and venue owners across the country. In a UK-first, Festival Republic is installing new, purpose-built mains power supply in Finsbury Park as part of the push to reduce […]
The Most Sustainable Stadiums Across America
As sports organizations, promoters, owners and venues take up more sustainability initiatives, carbon emissions are reducing. The stadiums are at the forefront of this movement as teams continue to update systems to make them cleaner, more efficient and utilising the most innovative and up-to-date technologies that can future-proof them for the next decades.. This article […]
Designing a Sustainable Energy Future for MDLBEAST Soundstorm
For decades, large-scale events have relied on diesel generators because they are familiar and trusted. And when considering a transition, change must be approached carefully, with detailed planning, measurement, and collaboration. But there is also a very real perception challenge. Production teams have only experienced years of increasing costs across every area of delivery, and […]
SPARK: Clean Temporary Power by 2030 for the TV & Film Industry
SPARK: Clean Temporary Power by 2030 is the industry’s roadmap for a permanent shift to clean solutions for temporary power, developed in 2025 through research and consultation with industry stakeholders’ energy experts and validated by independent experts from Imperial College London (via Imperial Consultants). It is accompanied by an industry Statement of Intent to accelerate sustainable screen production practises in energy use. SPARK lays […]