{"id":737549,"date":"2026-08-14T08:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T08:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/737549\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T08:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T08:02:08","slug":"boomtown-festival-uses-hydrogen-powered-main-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/737549\/","title":{"rendered":"Boomtown festival uses hydrogen-powered main stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Boomtown is set to have a main stage fuelled entirely by UK-produced green hydrogen. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The stage at the Hampshire festival uses generators that create electricity via hydrogen fuel cells and self-charging Hydrogen Power Unit (HPU) batteries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The by-products are water and heat only, meaning zero carbon emissions, fumes, or loud diesel noise, organisers said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are really keen to pioneer sustainability,&#8221; said Ruby Handy, the festival&#8217;s operations manager.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The stage, HydroXL, opened on Friday and its arena can hold up to 20,000 people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We started last year working with a hydrogen company on a smaller scale,&#8221; Handy said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is brand-new technology for the festival industry so we started smaller, we found it worked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Now we have doubled our efforts with it being a main stage.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boomtown is set to have a main stage fuelled entirely by UK-produced green hydrogen. The stage at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[59,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-737549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-gb","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}