APPLICATIONINVERTERS
Musically green
Glastonbury is one of the world’s great music festivals and their recent announcement to go solar garnered a great deal of media attention and positive coverage for the solar industry. The decision to create solar energy for the site led to a number of companies benefitting due to the size of the project. One of the companies that did well from the project is inverter provider, Sputnik Engineering who have now opened UK offices and discuss their involvement with the Glastonbury project.
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MCS certification and has opened a new branch office in London. Among its reference projects on the British isles is a 200 kilowatt system on the roofs of Worthy Farm in Glastonbury. Since 1970, this has been the venue of Europe’s largest open- air music festival.
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75 year old Michael Eavis started the Glastonbury festival at his dairy farm in 1970 and last year celebrated its 40th anniversary by joining Stevie Wonder on stage to sing the American soul star’s
putnik Engineering has had its inverters certified for the British market with an
song “Happy Birthday.” When the festival first started a ticket cost one British pound and included fresh milk from Worthy Farm. Today the festival is the largest open air music festival in Europe, hosts world stars such as Robbie Williams, Rod Stewart, Nick Cave and Lady Gaga and attracts as many as 200,000 visitors to the small southern English town.
But music and diary cows are not the only things that move Eavis. Environmental protection is also important to him. That is why his tractors run on plant oil. That is why the tents which he supplies at
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