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 […]
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 […]
Seven decision trees for a circular and climate-neutral festival

Festivals are temporary cities. In just a few days, they bring together energy systems, food chains, material flows, water infrastructure, and large-scale mobility. Making these systems circular and climate-neutral is complex, especially under time pressure and within existing constraints such as budgets, regulations, and location-specific circumstances. Organizers constantly balance their ambitions against operational and financial […]
UK city Bristol to create clean power hub for major events

Bristol is set to become a pioneer in the provision of renewable grid energy to festivals and other major public events next summer. West of England Mayoral Combined Authority and Bristol City Council have partnered with Act 1.5, the team behind Massive Attack’s groundbreaking Clifton Downs show last year, to create a clean power ‘hub’ for its […]
Coldplay get giddy as they smash Wembley Stadium record

Coldplay celebrated the end of their record-breaking 10-show run at Wembley Stadium with a dazzling, multi-coloured night of musical magic. Playing hits from every era of their 25-year career, they filled the stadium with light, and even indulged themselves with a giddy version of Whitney Houston’s I Wanna Dance With Somebody. “This is the song […]
Sustainability behind the scenes at Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres World Tour at Wembley Stadium

This week, Georgina Chapman and Anthony King caught up with Showpower’s Rob Scully and Tim Benson at Wembley Stadium, just ahead of Coldplay’s final and record breaking tenth UK concert. Here Georgina and Anthony saw first hand how the SmartGrid system has been powering Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres World Tour with 100% battery power […]
IQ Magazine says “The appetite for clean, reliable festival power has exploded”

As we have been saying for some time, the interest and engagement around sustainable and renewable power solutions has been on the increase. And IQ Magazine seems to agree. There have been numerous examples of small scale battery systems being implemented at festivals and events, and it seems there will be many more in 2026. […]
Coldplay “Music of the Spheres” World Tour reviewed for The Guardian

After 3 years on the road and selling more that 12m tickets to-date, the “Music of the Spheres” World Tour is approaching the close of the 2025 US and UK leg. And with the groundbreaking 10-date residency at Wembley Stadium still to come, there seems to be no stopping the sustainably-focussed tour. The SmartGrid battery […]
Sustainable Productions at Netflix

To entertain the world, we need a habitable world to entertain. And much of Netflix’s carbon footprint comes from the physical production of the films and TV series. Reducing emissions in their operations and productions through clean energy technology can really help transform this industry. It’s clear that Netflix have been leading the way in […]
Showpower complete successful 2025 US Tour with Coldplay using SmartGrid battery system

After starting the US leg of the Music of the Spheres World Tour in Stanford, California on 31st May and ending at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, Florida on 27th July, Showpower’s Paul Schurink and Tim Benson successfully installed and managed the SmartGrid battery system across all 17 dates in 9 cities. Once again with […]
