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.
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Published in
Procurement
March 16, 2012
Working with energy retailers
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Published in
Procurement
March 16, 2012
An energy sparkplug
Proactive roots of Ontario industry nurtured by longtime Niagara grower
Published in
Procurement
March 16, 2012
Inside View: June 2011
An energy conundrum: how low can you go?
Published in
Procurement
March 16, 2012
Specialty planters for miscanthus growers
Aug. 4, 2010, Leamington, Ont. – Growers of the energy crop miscanthus now have two planters available from New Energy Farms (www.newenergyfarms.com), the leading miscanthus development company in North America and the EU.
Published in
Renewables
March 16, 2012
Burt’s Greenhouses warms up to wood waste
July 20, 2010, Odessa, Ont. – When Brian Burt and Alex English were looking into biomass heating systems for their greenhouses, they could not find exactly what they needed, so they re-designed an existing system from the ground up.
Published in
Renewables
March 16, 2012
U of Sask students building solar greenhouse
May 3, 2010, Saskatoon – This spring, Footprint Design, an engineering student group at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, plans to begin construction on a solar powered greenhouse.
Published in
Renewables
March 16, 2012
Renewable fuels potential heats up in PEI
Feb. 3, 2010, New London, P.E.I. — The federal and Prince Edward Island governments are partnering to help farmers reduce energy costs and generate new income opportunities through renewable fuels.
Published in
Renewables
March 16, 2012
NEF builds energy crop bioproducts facility
Sept. 21, 2011, Leamington, Ont. – New Energy Farms (NEF) has constructed North America’s first energy crop bioprocessing facility. The 30,000-square-foot facility will convert locally grown energy crop biomass into a range of high-quality, but low-carbon NEF bioproducts.
Published in
Renewables
March 16, 2012
OFA, and the need for green energy promotion
Dec. 16, 2011 — On Dec. 5, an Ontario Federation of Agriculture (OFA) commentary highlighted the review of the FIT and microFIT programs – the future price levels and contract terms.
Published in
Renewables
