CLAIRE O’ NEILL AND DALE VINCE
CLAIRE O’ NEILL AND DALE VINCE
TITLE: CO-FOUNDER GRID FAERIES FOUNDER ECOTRICITY
INDUSTRY: ENERGY LOCATION: UK
Grid Faeries aims to take the diesel out of festivals, gigs and live sporting events. Claire O’ Neill is CEO and Co-Founder of A Greener Future and one half of Grid Faeries. The other half is Dale, the Founder of Ecotricity. For the last 20 years, they have been working to make festivals greener in a variety of ways.
says Dale Vince, Founder of Ecotricity and Co-Founder of Grid Faeries.
“ Anything that’ s in the live sector is probably running on diesel – we are here to change that.”
“ The full site for the Massive Attack show is battery-powered and charged with renewables. That’ s a big step forward,” Sam says.
“ There’ s a big shift once people realise the sound quality is better and air is cleaner.”
“ We’ ve been working with Lido Festival since the beginning, as part of a collaboration with AEG,” says Claire O’ Neill,
CEO and Co-Founder of A Greener Future and Co-Founder of Grid Faeries.“ We work with them on sustainability as a whole and, together with Grid Faeries, we’ ve come in as a green energy partner in order to get diesel out of the event from the get-go.
“ We’ re providing this battery for the main stage connected to the grid. It’ s a three megawatt hour battery, which in event world terms is the equivalent of two 500 KVA generators. So it covers what the main stage would generally need and then with the connection of the grid,
114 September 2025