{"id":4024,"date":"2015-09-02T12:53:03","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T10:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.victronenergy.com\/blog\/?p=4024"},"modified":"2025-06-12T10:34:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T08:34:29","slug":"woodstock-greenpeace-powered-by-victron-energy-in-association-with-mikrogeneracja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.victronenergy.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/02\/woodstock-greenpeace-powered-by-victron-energy-in-association-with-mikrogeneracja\/","title":{"rendered":"Woodstock: Greenpeace powered by Victron Energy in association with Mikrogeneracja"},"content":{"rendered":"

Woodstock, 1969 and The Who<\/a> were playing, just before Jefferson Airplane<\/a>. At that time I was sadly still under parental control. It took a further eleven years before I finally saw The Who in California. The ’69 festival’s official title was Woodstock Music & Art Fair<\/a> and it was billed as ‘An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music’.<\/p>\n

I’ve still no idea what an Aquarian exposition is, but the bands were certainly singing about ‘My Generation’.<\/p>\n

Times have definitely moved on though – and for the even younger festival goer it seems, as the photograph above suggests. Surely we’ve found the youngest ever BMV-700 series<\/a> and Color Control GX<\/a> operator? Time to find out more.<\/p>\n

Another Woodstock?<\/h3>\n

Recently I received an email from\u00a0Leo Yntema<\/a> who is the Victron Energy Sales Manager for Eastern Europe, The Balkans and Luxembourg. In that email was a forwarded email from a Marek Klonowski of Energy Freedom in Ireland<\/a> and Mikrogeneracja in Poland<\/a> – and then I discovered that the original email was from Greenpeace<\/a>, in Polish, telling me all about Woodstock.<\/p>\n

Phew! This was proving to be quite a detective story. Had the real Woodstock started up again? Were the heroes of my youth going to be there?<\/p>\n

Sadly it seemed not and it became clear from the email and various websites (once kindly translated using the Google Chrome browser) that we have moved on a long way from the ‘peace and love’ days. Now in the 21st century it is all about the environment. My generation may have sowed those seeds but it took the formation of organisations like Greenpeace (founded in 1971 in Vancouver, Canada) to turn words into action.<\/p>\n

Victron Energy powered education<\/h3>\n

The words in the email were from the EU Energy Powershift Project Officer of Greenpeace, Poland.<\/p>\n

With a job title like that, something impressive had to be happening. And it did, as it turned out that from July 30 – August 1 in Kostrzyn in Poland, there was a 21st Woodstock festival with Greenpeace using Victron Energy power in their Ecovillage and in a nearby educational solar panelled shelter, where people could charge devices, learn more about renewable energy and the operation of the equipment itself.<\/p>\n

If you don’t speak Polish you can use the Google Chrome browser to directly translate and learn more about Greenpeace’s involvement at the festival, which also champions the development of distributed renewable energy sources in Poland.<\/p>\n

If you’ve not got time for that, then there is a good overview of the festival, with an impressive solar tracker in this video:<\/p>\n