Ready to Roll with Battery Power: Robe PowerDolly

It wasn’t that long ago that using batteries to power stage lighting, audio, and video was virtually unheard of. It was 2023 when I first worked on a show that used large banks of batteries and solar panels for that purpose.

Posted online, this picture of solar panels and battery energy storage units elicited a range of responses from the live event community, mostly supportive, but some people were skeptical.

We supplied the power on three stages at Willie Nelson’s Luck Reunion in Austin, Texas, including a Stageline 320 portable stage and two smaller stages. After we set everything up, I took a picture of one of the solar farms and some of the battery energy storage units and posted it online. Most of the live event community was very supportive and positive. But a few people were very skeptical, to say the least, and some were confused....

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