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Successful Live Earth sees Power Logistics offer sustainable alternative
Power Logistics has proved it can adapt to suit the sustainability needs of all its customers. The organisers of Live Earth, were committed to minimising the environmental impact of the event. Consequently, Live Nation’s production team demanded the use of 100% bio-fuels in all generators, powering a televisual spectacular broadcast to an estimated two billion people, while keeping the carbon footprint as low as possible. Sustainability is a policy that Power Logistics has been researching for some time and the company’s own trucks run on a bio-diesel mix to minimise environmental impact. For Live Earth they sourced 13,000 litres of recycled catering oil from North London commercial outlets, which was chemically treated by a specialist company in Wales. Come the day, managing director Pete Wills and the team were able to fine tune the generators to run effectively on the bio-diesel. The needs of the world’s media at the concert placed a particular pressure on the generating capacity of the show, with extensive television infrastructure, outside broadcasting facilities and feeds to several hundred different stations requiring unbroken, consistent power throughout the marathon 10 hour show. The power needs of the stage production were no less demanding, with headliners like Madonna, Keane (pictured), The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Genesis and Metallica utilising a full panoply of the latest sound, video and lighting technology (although low energy bulbs were used where possible). “Live Earth has demonstrated that any event organiser wishing to switch to sustainable fuel for their concert or festival can do so in confidence,” said Power Logistics managing director, Pete Wills. “We have geared our services so that we can supply a mix of fuels or pure bio-diesel as requested. There are still questions being asked about the new bio-fuels, so we let our clients decide on how they feel and what they want to use. For the shows prior to Live Earth we were asked to run our generators on diesel, and we liaised with the generator engineers to ensure that when the site passed into the control of the Live Earth production team we were ready to switch to bio-diesel. The cost has been on a par if we’d used diesel for the fuel, although the filters on the generators will now need changing as this bio fuel is a little heavier. ” |
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