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.
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.
Energy efficiency resources from Minnesota
Thursday, 10 May 2012-
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As part of its Farm Energy Efficiency Program, the nonprofit agency ‘The Minnesota Project’ has created an extensive online resource centre.
It contains a collection of the most relevant information relating to on farm energy efficiency, including educational documents and technical resources. It is located here.
Greenhouse operators should scroll down and click on Technical Resources and Evaluation Tools and then Sample Audits and Case Studies. “The greenhouse audit is titled ‘Farm Audit – Greenhouse,’” says Jake Fischer, Clean Energy Program Manager at The Minnesota Project. “This was the audit our students completed through the course of their recent farm energy audit training program.”
Fischer also points out a video they recently created that outlines what it involved in an energy audit. “We created the video to help explain the value and purpose of an energy audit, as we’ve had a lot of producers bristle at the sound of the word ‘audit,’ and not be so interested in this potentially fruitful exercise,” he notes.
