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Dance Festival Portola Avoided Using 6,053 Gallons of Diesel at Its 2024 Event. Here’s How
Inside the Portola dance festival's 2024 sustainable power initiative, which helped it avoid using 6,053 gallons of diesel fuel at this year's event.
A sustainability initiative focused on festival-wide power use at San Francisco’s Portola in September resulted in the avoidance of using roughly 6,053 gallons of diesel fuel, a rep for the festival tells Billboard. According to Overdrive Energy Solutions founder Neel Vasavada, the company’s batteries have 99% fewer emissions than the standard diesel generators that have long been used to power festivals. Overall, the project at Portola resulted in the avoidance of 48.8 metric tons of CO₂ emissions, a number equivalent to the amount ofcarbon annually sequestered by 58 acres of U.S. forest.
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