Glastonbury Festival is getting a pink and purple wind turbine

Octopus Energy and Glastonbury Festival have teamed up to install a pink and purple 28-metre wind turbine in order to make this year’s Glastonbury the greenest yet.

Glastonbury Festival’s ‘biggest fan’ will be in attendance this year, and no, we’re not talking about Lilly Allen or Stormzy.

Thanks to a collaboration with Octopus Energy, a 20-metre wind turbine with 8-metre-long blades will tower over thousands of festival-goers as they party for four days straight.

The wind turbine is just one part of Glastonbury’s ongoing agenda to make the festival more eco-friendly. It will provide clean energy to around 800 food vendors operating on the grounds.

According to Octopus Energy’s Twitter account, the wind turbine was a bit of a last-minute decision. Still, it was successfully built for the festival in just a few weeks.

On June 13th a team of engineers got to work installing it — a job that was completed in a single day. The goal is to demonstrate how quickly and easily onshore renewables can be deployed.