Orange is using the power of wind to give festival goers another option for keeping their phone battery topped up. Orange announced the launch of a freestanding wind powered mobile phone charging station, giving Glastonbury revellers no excuse not to keep in touch with their friends, relay their favourite stories from the Festival and of course ask the inevitable question “where are you?”.
At over 7 meters in height, the free standing REcharge Pod is a self sufficient unit that supports a wind generator and solar panels and can charge up to 100 mobile phones simultaneously. It is estimated that the Orange REcharge pod will charge thousands of mobile phones over the course of the 3 day festival, and the energy generated by the Orange REcharge pod to be the equivalent of powering a DJ booth for Groove Armada for a marathon 88 hour set!
Working with renewable energy experts GotWind, the REcharge Pod is an evolution of the Orange portable wind charger, tested at 2007’s Glastonbury Festival. The REcharge Pod will act as a trial in using renewable energy sources on a larger scale, with a view to ultimately powering elements of the Chill n’ Charge tent at future Glastonbury Festivals.
