An Octopus Energy wind turbine is being installed at Glastonbury Festival. Octopus has also installed solar panels and a battery to store the energy produced.

The wind turbine and solar panels will supply clean energy to a microgrid which will power food vendors in the field and is expected to produce up to 300kWh of energy per day – enough to power 300 fridges.

The temporary structure was erected in a day in William’s Green field, near the famous Pyramid stage. The wind turbine was only ordered at the end of April, which Octopus Energy said demonstrates how fast new renewables can be built if considerations and connections allow it.
The wind turbine is 20 metres tall with 8 metre-long blades and is finished off with Octopus tentacles wrapped around its purple tower and pink blades.

Octopus Energy has already become the energy provider to Worthy Farm and together they plan to increase the use of renewable energy in future festivals.

In 2019 the festival banned the sale of single-use plastic drink bottles on-site. That same year, Worthy Farm installed an anaerobic digester and biogas plant power to sit alongside its existing solar PV array.