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Glastonbury Festival 2010 to use solar electricity system

Worthy Farm in Somerset, home to the annual music festival Glastonbury, is set to house 1,500 square meters of solar panels for this year’s event, in what would be the UK’s largest private solar electricity system.

Festival organiser Michael Eavis hopes to place 1,100 solar panels on cow sheds during Glastonbury 2010. It is thought that on a clear, sunny day, the panels would generate around 200kW of power. Work will begin to install the panels on August 1 2010, subject to planning permission being granted and surveys confirming that the barn roof is strong enough to hold the panels.

Michael Eavis said: “It’s a very exciting project for us. We first had renewable energy at the Festival in 1979 and we’ve been trying to increase it ever since. We want the Festival, and the farm, to be as green as they can be. The solar panels will make a huge contribution towards that.”