{"id":7507,"date":"2026-09-22T09:55:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T08:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pessenergy.com\/?p=7507"},"modified":"2026-09-22T10:27:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T09:27:19","slug":"marseille-street-food-festival-our-bulk-battery-generator-powers-3-days-of-festivities-without-a-drop-of-diesel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pessenergy.com\/en\/marseille-street-food-festival-our-bulk-battery-generator-powers-3-days-of-festivities-without-a-drop-of-diesel\/","title":{"rendered":"Marseille Street Food Festival: Our BULK Battery Generator Powers 3 Days of Festivities Without a Drop of Diesel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

3 days, 25 stalls powered, zero fuel burned: here’s how our BULK battery took over part of the energy supply for the Street Food Festival in Marseille.<\/em><\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

BULK: 160 kW \u2013 600 kWh \u2013 7 tons \u2013 100% second-life EV batteries<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every year, Provence Tourisme organizes the Street Food Festival on the Parvis de la Major, in Marseille. For the 2026 edition, held September 10\u201312, the organizers wanted to power a third of the festival’s food stalls \u2014 25 stalls \u2014 with clean electricity, without relying on a noisy, polluting thermal generator in the heart of the city. Provence Location, the event’s technical partner, called on PESS Energy to take on this challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Challenge: More Power Than the Grid Could Provide<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On site, the available grid connection could only supply 30 kW (a standard 63 A three-phase feed). But at peak times, the 25 stalls needed around 138 kW to all run at once \u2014 nearly 5 times more than the grid could provide. Closing that gap with a standard diesel generator was out of the question: too much noise, smoke and smell for a public event in the heart of Marseille.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Solution: BULK<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BULK is our giant, mobile battery: 160 kW of continuous power and 600 kWh of capacity, weighing around 7 tons, built from second-life electric vehicle batteries. Over the three nights of the festival, it worked alongside the existing grid connection in “grid boost” mode: whenever demand exceeded what the grid could supply, the battery stepped in automatically, with no outage and no delay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zero noise, zero CO2 emissions, zero odor, zero maintenance \u2014 with 24\/7 remote monitoring throughout the rental.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Results, in Numbers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the three nights, BULK supplied 1,204.6 kWh<\/strong> to the festival’s stalls, boosting the grid up to 255% of its initial capacity (76.4 kW peak on Saturday, against a 30 kW grid limit). Most notably, it prevented 4 grid power outages<\/strong>: the battery took over seamlessly, and customers noticed nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the service provider, the equivalent in diesel generator use would have meant:<\/p>\n\n\n\n