Tag: events

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 […]

Showpower selected for National Climate Tech Accelerator

Sustainable Ventures and Barclays Eagle Labs announced the launch of The National Climate Tech Accelerator (NCTA), a new programme designed to rapidly scale high-potential climate tech startups across the UK. The initiative unites the UK’s leading growth partner for climatetech startups, Sustainable Ventures, with one of the UK’s largest entrepreneurial networks, Barclays Eagle Labs, to deliver an ecosystem […]

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 […]

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. […]

How The Music Biz Is Pioneering Energy Systems To Help During Natural Disasters

David Koenig, Program Director for the Music Sustainability Alliance highlights some very important progress that is being made in the world for power for events, including Showpower’s SmartGrid battery system, and how these innovations are benefitting other industries and sectors such as disaster response and temporary power applications.

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 […]

Global Citizen Festival Returns to NYC

Showpower’s favourite Central Park Festival returns on the 27th September 2025 in New York with an incredible line-up of global artists and activists including The Weeknd, Shakira, Tyla, Ayra Starr and Mariah The Scientist who will be performing all in the name of reducing global poverty. Global Citizen are inspiring a new movement of global […]