Grid Faeries power LIDO 2025 festival to top award
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We’re delighted to announce that the LIDO 2025 Festival has been awarded Highly Commended by A Greener Future in its awards for the world’s greenest events and festivals.
LIDO 2025 festival ran over two weekends in June 2025 in London’s Victoria Park, with the likes of Charli XCX and London Grammar entertaining thousands of festival goers.
While the musical headliners were the stars of the show, Grid Faeries x Ecotricity were there to underpin the whole thing, powering the main stage with clean, green, battery energy.
In fact, the festival site ran for over thirty-two hours on battery power alone, charged by rooftop solar and Ecotricity’s deep green electricity from the grid, with no generator noise or pollution to ruin the sets or the environment.
A greener future for festivals
Across the world, 25 festivals were awarded A Greener Future certification in 2025, with LIDO one of just two festivals from the UK to be named as Highly Commended.
A Greener Future is a not-for-profit company helping events and festivals worldwide to be more sustainable and reduce their environmental impact. Their certification process covers over 10 major aspects of a festival’s impact, including energy, food, transport and community, with site visits by independent assessors and reports by independent auditors.
Our founder, Dale Vince says: “LIDO was a first for London, an outdoor, main stage, run entirely on green energy, and it won’t be the last. It’s time to get diesel out of our festivals. Grid Faeries x Ecotricity are here to show how there’s another way to power the live music scene.”
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