Case study: Danish Event Lockers

Across Scandinavia, more and more festivals and sports events are making Event Lockers a standard part of the day. What started as a response to tighter bag rules has become something organisers and festival goers simply expect: a safe place to store valuables, shorter entry queues, and less stolen or lost property. Here is how Event Lockers have played out at some of the biggest events in Denmark and Sweden, with the real numbers.

Safer sports events

UCI Track Cycling World Championships

When Denmark hosted the UCI Track Cycling World Championships, organisers faced a familiar problem: how to handle thousands of spectators' bags and coats safely and efficiently. The old answer was a staffed cloakroom, which needed a lot of people and created long queues. Volt proposed Event Lockers instead. Across the five days of the event, more than 500 lockers were rented every day by spectators and participants. It took pressure off staff and made the experience safer and more comfortable, and the response led to Volt being invited back for the BMX World Championships in Denmark.

Copenhagen Marathon

The Copenhagen Marathon is one of the largest running events in the Nordics, with over 18,000 participants a year, so the need for secure storage of bags, clothes, and valuables is huge. Volt has supplied Event Lockers since 2023, and demand has climbed fast: a modest number the first year, 600 lockers in 2024, and a forecast of 1,200 the year after. The organiser, Sparta Atletik and Løb, which also runs the Copenhagen Half Marathon and DHL Stafetten, built a long-term partnership with Volt to keep the experience smooth for both runners and spectators.

Festivals: lockers as the standard

Sweden Rock Festival: from test to sell-out

When Sweden Rock first tried Volt Event Lockers, it was to handle new bag rules. Both the festival and Volt were cautious about the forecast, but within 48 hours more than 1,000 lockers were rented. Demand pushed the count up to 1,800, and 2,200 rentals were made across the festival. The following year the target rose to 2,500 so no festival goer would be left without storage.

Copenhell: peak demand at Denmark's biggest metal festival

Copenhell draws 45,000 guests a day across four days. Volt introduced Event Lockers in 2023. After a modest start the lockers sold out fast and needed emergency reinforcements, so the next year two extra containers with another 600 lockers were sent the day before doors. In total, more than 3,000 lockers were rented across the festival, proof that the need is real even where guests do not always arrive expecting to carry much.

Smukfest: strategy and optimisation

At Smukfest, Denmark's second-largest festival, Event Lockers launched in 2023 with five separate locker areas. After studying the sales data, Volt narrowed it to two areas the next year. The result was fewer locker areas but more rentals, 1,500 against 900 the year before, by focusing on the spots where demand was highest.

Heartland and Suset

Heartland was one of the first Live Nation events in Denmark to bring in Volt, with seven locker areas covering VIP, volunteers, artists, and the crowd, and 1,500 lockers rented, alongside a Visa brand activation. That success led to the city festival Suset, where more than 1,000 lockers were rented over two days, with a bigger setup planned after.

Rolling out in Sweden

After the success in Denmark, Volt began rolling Event Lockers out more widely in Sweden, starting with big festivals like Sweden Rock, where lockers quickly became a necessity for festival goers. Alongside lockers, Volt also rents out powerbanks from powerbank stations, so guests can keep their phones charged through the whole event.

Why Event Lockers became a given

A few reasons come up again and again across every one of these events:

• Security and compliance. Where a bag rule applies, lockers let an organiser meet it while still giving festival goers a comfortable option.
• Less theft. Instead of carrying a phone, wallet, and camera all day, a festival goer can lock valuables away, which makes the whole site feel safer.
• Better flow. Lockers near the entrances mean shorter queues and faster entry, and less need for staff at the gate.
• Flexibility and scale. When demand spikes mid-event, Volt can scale up fast by adding modules or a mobile Volt Locker Container.
• Charging as an add-on. Pairing lockers with powerbank rental gives festival goers a complete storage-and-charging solution in one place.

In short

From Sweden Rock and Copenhell to the UCI World Championships and the Copenhagen Marathon, the pattern is the same: Event Lockers have gone from a nice extra to a key part of running a safe, smooth event. If you are organising one, from a marathon to a music festival to a world championship, Volt can help you size the right storage and charging setup.

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