Outdoor concert scene with a large crowd sitting on a grassy hill in a park, enjoying a live performance with a stage in the background featuring large screens, surrounded by trees with sunlight filtering through the foliage.

Energy: Øya Festival Case Study

Find out how Øya Festival, Norway (capacity 20,000), phased out the use of diesel generators by connecting to mains power with support from the local government and energy supplier. Øya began the project in 2009 and by 2011 they were running on 100% renewable energy via a Green Tariff through mains power. 

It is part of the Erasmus+ project FUTURE FESTIVAL TOOLS, in which YOUROPE together with a team of partners from all over Europe has developed GREEN FESTIVAL STORIES – A COLLECTION OF INSPIRING EXAMPLES FROM ACROSS EUROPE. This guide shows you great cases in sustainable festival development within six focus areas:

Related Projects

{"error_text":"Error 400. Couldnt load any more Projects.","template":"festival","loadmore":false,"args":{"current":{"post_type":"project","nopaging":true,"relationship":{"id":"know_how-project","id_field":"ID","direction":"from","items":[2601],"reciprocal":false,"to":null},"ignore_sticky_posts":true,"no_found_rows":false,"post_status":"publish","orderby":"date","order":"DESC","comments_per_page":"50","error":"","m":"","p":0,"post_parent":"","subpost":"","subpost_id":"","attachment":"","attachment_id":0,"name":"","pagename":"","page_id":0,"second":"","minute":"","hour":"","day":0,"monthnum":0,"year":0,"w":0,"category_name":"","tag":"","cat":"","tag_id":"","author":"","author_name":"","feed":"","tb":"","paged":1,"meta_key":"","meta_value":"","preview":"","s":"","sentence":"","title":"","fields":"","menu_order":"","embed":"","category__in":[],"category__not_in":[],"category__and":[],"post__in":[],"post__not_in":[],"post_name__in":[],"tag__in":[],"tag__not_in":[],"tag__and":[],"tag_slug__in":[],"tag_slug__and":[],"post_parent__in":[],"post_parent__not_in":[],"author__in":[],"author__not_in":[],"search_columns":[],"suppress_filters":false,"cache_results":true,"update_post_term_cache":true,"update_menu_item_cache":false,"lazy_load_term_meta":true,"update_post_meta_cache":true,"posts_per_page":12}},"max_num_pages":0}