A Newcastle audio visual company has created a new portable energy system that it says solves problems that have plagued TV, film and festival producers for years.
Reed Ingram Weir, founder and director at Ingram AV, spent the lockdown months thinking about how to produce a sustainable portable energy system that would produce less noise than traditional power generators, while reducing harmful emissions. As a result, the company is now designing and manufacturing the NRG V2 - a 2m x 1.6m unit which fits on to a trailer and is capable of providing 45KVa of clean energy with 120KWh of storage that is expandable.
It means the system could be used to power a festival for about 5,000 people for a day, if being used to power audio and lighting systems, or it could be used to power a location drama unit for a day. The internal elements of NRG V2 were constructed at Ingram AV’s Hoults Yard base in Newcastle, but the external canopy was manufactured in Wales.
