Arcadia is ready to run completely on renewable vitality at Glastonbury Competition 2023.
The Spider might be returning to the Arcadia space for this yr’s version of the pageant, which can characteristic a spread of digital music heavyweights on its line-up.
The Chemical Brothers, Skepta, Floating Factors, Daphni, Dubkasm, Plastician and extra will all play within the spider throughout the weekend. Discover the complete listing of artists right here.
Forward of the pageant, Arcadia has introduced that it’s going to run solely on recycled biofuels for the primary time, together with cooking oil and chip fats.
Explaining the initiative, Arcadia co-founder Bertie Cole informed DJ Magazine: “With the present infrastructure that festivals run on it was clear one of many extra environment friendly methods it might be finished is by utilizing a waste gas to energy all these bits of equipment.
“However till fairly lately, quite a lot of the biofuels that had been accessible didn’t actually have the provenance of elements, like a few of them had palm oils and so on. that [we] wouldn’t wish to encourage the usage of, whereas it’s bought to the purpose now the place we are able to proudly put our title to it.”
Discussing the journey in direction of renewable vitality at Arcadia, Cole stated: “We’ve been doing quite a lot of analysis on potential forms of gas – and there’s a HVO gas now which is constituted of recycled chip fats and cooking oil. And it’s refined all the way down to a level the place it may be utilized in a standard diesel engine.
“So, what that means that you can do is definitely run your regular turbines and equipment from a gas which has been salvaged from a waste product, so moderately than utilizing virgin minerals and issues that haven’t been extracted but, you should use issues which were grown after which burnt and used for cooking and different issues like that, after which give it one other use by utilizing it to energy issues.”
Glastonbury Competition will return to Worthy Farm from June 21-25, with headliners Elton John, Arctic Monkeys and Weapons N’ Roses. Different confirmed acts embody Lizzo, Wizkid, Lil Nas X, Chvrches, Lana Del Rey and The Battle On Medicine.
Final week, the BBC introduced particulars of its protection of the 2023 pageant, whereas the complete line-up and stage occasions had been additionally lately shared, with new names added together with Queens Of The Stone Age and Rick Astley.
