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.

Procurement

A waste management company in the United Kingdom is hoping its £185 million waste incinerator will help local farmers grow greenhouse tomatoes and avoid the pitfalls that have hampered some of the country's other combined heat and power projects in the past.
Bert Mucci, owner of Southshore Greenhouses Inc., monitors energy markets so closely that some days he says he feels more like an energy producer than a fruit and vegetable grower.
When natural gas prices spiked in 2006, many Canadian greenhouse operators looked for alternative heating sources. Kelvin Vanderveen found a local solution for his Carman, Man., greenhouses, using flax shives from Schweitzer-Maudit Canada Inc.’s flax processing operation as feedstock for a new biomass burner.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) released a report on Nov. 12, outlining some significant changes that they expect to see in global energy production over the next 10 to 20 years.
A pioneering plan to turn Qatar’s desert into lush, profitable land, will mark a major milestone later this month, opening while the world watches the upcoming United Nations Climate Conference in the country’s capital.
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