Glastonbury Festival will again see a bright pink wind turbine, nicknamed Gusty Spinfield, help power the Williams Green area for food traders and bars.

We just couldn’t resist running a story with such a great pun for the 28 metres tall temporary wind turbine. Gustu got her name in a competition of Octopus customers last year, and she is complemented by a battery so that surplus wind energy can be stored.

Greg Jackson, founder of Octopus Energy, will also make his Glastonbury stage debut this year, talking about clean energy, rather than singing I Only Want to be With You, hopefully.

It comes as Octopus and the Festival continue to deepen their partnership. Octopus has been Worthy Farm’s energy provider since last year, supplying renewable electricity to the dairy farm, Octopus’ electric vehicle (EV) charging platform is now shared with Festival-goers and Festival employees can now lease EVs through a salary sacrifice scheme.

These are the latest steps in the Festival’s sustainability journey. The Green Fields area has run on solar, wind and pedal power since 1984. Worthy Farm already has an anaerobic digester, biogas plant and solar farm to run on clean, green electricity. Chemical toilets have been swapped for compost loos, waste is managed at its on-site recycling centre and non-compostable serveware and single-use plastic bottle sales are banned.

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