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.

Innovation in the field of robotic packaging lines for greenhouse vegetables continues, with lower costs, reduced resource consumption and improved hygiene being the three main factors driving the improvements.

Published in Efficiency

Tomatoes grown around LED lights in the winter can significantly reduce greenhouse energy costs without sacrificing yield, according to a Purdue University study.

Published in Efficiency

This year’s Fruit Logistica Innovation Award went to the Netherlands’ Staay Food Group. Its City Farming project uses custom greenhouses outfitted with specialized LED lighting to quickly cultivate seeds into young plants.

Published in Efficiency

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.

Published in Procurement

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.

Published in Procurement
At the Horti Fair in The Netherlands, a consortium of AVAG companies (including Sercom and Environmental Monitoring Systems) has won the prestigious ‘Press’ prize for ‘most promising innovation’ for their greenhouse climate monitoring system.

Published in Efficiency
AgriSensys, a new technology able to track temperature and humidity levels in order to optimize the climate throughout a greenhouse and lead to energy savings, is now commercially available from WiSensys.

Published in Efficiency
This week, the Kaaij Group opened its first KUBO 'Ultra Clima' semi-closed greenhouse in The Netherlands, a design which provides substantial energy and CO2 savings.

 
Published in Efficiency
In this recent 'Greenhouse Canada Magazine' article, a lighting expert answers some of the most commonly-asked questions he deals with on a fairly regular basis. James Grouzos is the U.S. sales engineer for P.L. Light Systems.

Published in Efficiency
An increasing number of greenhouses have retractable shade or energy curtains, which makes shading easy, notes MSU's Erik Runkle. There are several advantages of these curtains, most notably that they can be used during periods of high light (for shading) and at night (to reduce heat loss), but can be opened on cloudy days.
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