Fes­ti­val Pow­er with Hybrid Ener­gy

Elec­tric­i­ty for light­ing the Frozen Peo­ple Fes­ti­val with par­tic­i­pa­to­ry hybrid ener­gy

The Frozen Peo­ple Fes­ti­val want­ed to uti­lize envi­ron­men­tal­ly friend­ly elec­tric­i­ty pro­duced out­side the elet­ric pow­er net­work. The atten­dees could ped­al elec­tric­i­ty for ligth­ing the art instal­la­tions of the event with inno­v­a­tive hybrid ener­gy.

Inno­va­tion Tri­al

The Frozen Peo­ple Fes­ti­val want­ed to uti­lize a form of ener­gy pro­duc­tion for their light art­works that is more fun and illus­tra­tive than net­work elec­tric­i­ty or gen­er­a­tors and that bet­ter rep­re­sents sus­tain­able devel­op­ment. At the event, ener­gy expert, inven­tor and non-fic­tion writer Janne Käpyle­hto test­ed a hybird pow­er plant that pro­duced ener­gy inde­pen­dent­ly on the ice dur­ing the fes­ti­val.

The hybrid pow­er plant com­bined the ener­gy pro­duc­tion of the sun, wind and three ped­al gen­er­a­tors – the ener­gy of the fes­ti­val atten­dees. With this, the elec­tric­i­ty used in the art­works, light­ing and warmth would be pro­duced with the least amount of emis­sions. Real-time dis­plays were pre­pared in the area pre­sent­ing con­sump­tion and all three pro­duc­tion meth­ods that made the ener­gy pro­duc­tion vis­i­ble.

Results

The sus­tain­ably pro­duced elec­tric­i­ty did not run out dur­ing the event! There was even some excess left, as with the ener­gy left in the bat­ter­ies after the event could have charged a phone from emp­ty to full 80 times.

Alto­geth­er, the pow­er plant pro­duced 2,6 kWh of elec­tric­i­ty dur­ing the fes­ti­val and light­ing the art­works con­sumed 1,7 kWh. With gen­er­a­tors, light­ing the art­works would have required about ten liters of gaso­line and would have caused 27 kilos more car­bon emis­sions. The hybrid pow­er plant did not cause any emis­sions dur­ing its use at all.

If the sound sys­tem had been pow­ered with the hybrid pow­er plant, it would have need­ed to be ten times larg­er. The plant’s effec­tive­ness was ful­filled in the illus­tra­tion of ener­gy pro­duc­tion and con­sump­tion. There was no need to urge the peo­ple to ped­al, the fun method sold itself to the fes­ti­val crowd of 1500 peo­ple. Accord­ing to an attendee sur­vey, four out of five atten­dees vis­it­ed the hybrid pow­er plant dur­ing their atten­dance.

Briefly

• The tri­al was orga­nized by Solar­voima Oy’s ener­gy expert, inven­tor Janne Käpyle­hto.
• The event was the fes­ti­val of elec­tron­ic music and North­ern art Frozen Peo­ple on March 12, 2022 on the ice of Nal­likari, Oulu.
• The hybrid pow­er plant designed for the event con­sist­ed of a wind­mill, three solar pan­els and three ped­al gen­er­a­tors. Alto­geth­er, the plant pro­duced 2.6 kWh of elec­tric­i­ty dur­ing the fes­ti­val.