ZioGiorgio.com: Unusual Rigging is proud to announce that it is now meeting over 50% of its annual on-site power consumption with renewable energy via a solar PV system.
The 100KW solar PV system is installed on the roof of Unusual’s new 1,056 sq m warehouse, which opened in June this year, and was energized on September 3.
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It is great to hear the such a large industry is making strides to become more and more energy efficient. I am just starting to learn all that goes into to the process of rigging and all of the materials it entails and I am honestly amazed by its pure capacity. Rigging is a great challenge in and of itself but taking the efforts to make it better for the environment is certainly admirable. It sounds to me like the industry is teaming up with specialists to get organized in helping make rigging more efficient and sustainable. By looking at the many factors such as life cycle and recycling, the team's main goal is to make if more environmentally friendly but in order to do this they must keep careful track of all of the aspects making it more coordinated too. I love hearing about how people are finding new ways to make the industry even more groundbreaking than it already is.
One of my biggest wishes would be for the entertainment industry to be come more environmentally friendly in their standard work practices. In general, right now, a new set is built from scratch for every production that is produced at any given time. That means that fresh lumber and other materials are purchased to then just end up in a dumpster once the show has closed. I know that many theater companies save things for stock, but there still a fairly decent amount of lumber that can’t be saved for stock or recycled. Scenery is the easiest department to use a an example, but all of the other theatrical departments definitely do this in some sort of way. This is an on going problem that there is not necessarily a good solution to, but it would be really nice if people thought about the environment when they were determining which materials they should use.
Going green in the entertainment industry certainly is a strange business. It is good that the Unusual Rigging warehouse is going largely green, and that they will see some cost savings over the next 20 years because of the solar energy input, but is the entertainment industry really the ideal place to implement large green practices? I don’t think that we shouldn’t try and be sustainable, but will the large cost incurred by our notably fluid industry really make a dent in the environmental impact of the whole economy? In terms of amount of money spent in entertainment vs resources that we actually expend we are very green compared with the transportation and construction industries. For us, high cost changes to our infrastructure are used irregularly and infrequently, in another industry, high cost changes could have much more effect, as they are regularly scheduled and much more a known quantity of resource expenditure than we are.
Green factories are popping up all over the country. Companies are starting to catch on to that going green is the “new thing”. Especially with a company like this, the process of rigging on a large-scale is quite amazing and all the work that goes in takes a large amount of power. To have a company like this one go green will only encourage others to follow in their footsteps. And aside from going green, the company hopes to tag every product with RFID. This is becoming more and more common to ensure that all products are being 100% effective. I will be learning more about rigging in the coming months. I am eager to find out efficient and effective ways of rigging, just like Unusual does. It is nice to see companies making this advances and I look forward to the improvements they hope to make in the future.
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