Case Study
Music from the Sun
Off the Grid 100% Renewable Music Festival, Melbourne, Australia Background Off the Grid, Australia’ s first fully solar-powered music festival, was held in central Melbourne in December 2015. Its only energy source was a 7 kW photovoltaic (PV) array, which powered the festival during daylight hours while also charging Ecoult’ s UltraFlex, which in turn powered the festival through cloud cover and long after sundown. The festival’ s back-up