Gaining your edge

Energy Edge is an initiative of Greenhouse Canada magazine aimed at turning what is a liability for most growers – fluctuating energy costs – into a competitive advantage. With energy accounting for as much as 40 per cent of the operating costs of many greenhouse operations, small and steady improvements on this front can move the needle in a big way on the bottom line. Energy Edge will look at new technologies, innovative projects, case studies of growers finding their own Energy Edge.

You can read about it in each issue of Greenhouse Canada, but we’ve also created this dedicated microsite. Here you can find regular news items on the subject, new technology and products, video, and in-depth archives on the subject.

We’ll also produce a bi-weekly enewsletter to keep you up to speed on what we’re covering. It is free to all Greenhouse Canada digital subscribers. You can sign up for it here.

If you want to add to the conversation, please drop us a line and let us know about your project, technology, services, or concerns at energyedge@annexweb.com.

Efficiency

PhotoFuel's P-Film greenhouse cover has growers thinking pink. The cover is designed to shift the wavelengths of light entering the greenhouse, giving plants more light from the portion of the spectrum they need to thrive.
When Barnes Greenhouses' vernalized perennials began displaying weak stems, extended internode length and lack of colour after transplant, the solution was straightforward: the plants needed more light.
May 10,2013 – The growers at Thanet Earth produce consistently great quality tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers for the UK’s best-known retail shelves. The site has proven its ability to grow tomatoes 52 weeks of the year and boasts the longest UK seasons on cucumbers and peppers. This is all credit…
May 10, 2013, Mount Brydges, Ont. — Flynn Canada has received the Caterpillar Award of Excellence for Commercial Landscape Construction/Installation for its work on the Toronto City Hall Green Roof Project. This is the first time that a green roof has ever won the award as well as the first…
May 10, 2013, Friggesund, Sweden — Holmen Skog installed 2,100 units of Valoya Ltd’s LED lights to its fully automated tree nursery here. The newest part of the nursery is a multilayer growing unit with 12 layers and it sole source of light is Valoya’s LED lights.  Holmen Skog, a…
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