Announcements
"Tweeting Growers"
Top 5 -yesterday
- AUS: Vertical farm seeks $10 million as it breaks new ground in Queensland
- $5 million investment added to the portfolio:
- "Light is the most important growth factor in a vertical farm"
- “We want to make technology as simple, efficient and convenient as possible”
- Enabling the vertical farming sector to grow
Top 5 -last week
- "Cheap sensors for smarter farmers" help farmers make better decisions
- Modernization as a service, for new builds and retrofits alike
- "There are four drivers needed for successful ROI"
- Vertically cultivated mushrooms are blossoming in Brussels’ cellars
- US (SC): Installing cultivation systems for high-tech indoor farm
Top 5 -last month
- Study on environmental and cultivation factors affecting root systems in soilless grown plants
- Sweden: Instead of supplying microgreens, supplying self-made cultivation systems
- "Cheap sensors for smarter farmers" help farmers make better decisions
- What is the difference between hydroponics, aquaponics and aeroponics?
- Transition from hydroponics to gelponics
Schneider Electric:
Modernization as a service, for new builds and retrofits alike
“We’re implementing solutions to make whole facilities smarter,” says Lisa Causarano, international account manager at Schneider Electric. As a global powerhouse in energy management and automation, Schneider's equipment is found throughout facilities around the world. However, the company began building…
CPower extends partnership with Scale Microgrid to help Fifth Season maximize assets
"Vertical farming innovators benefit from helping keep community's grid balanced"
CPower Energy Management today announced that it will support Scale Microgrid Solutions, a provider of distributed clean energy and microgrid platforms, to deliver energy…
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Vertical grower brings indoor farm microgrid online
Scale Microgrid Solutions brought a 1.75-MW microgrid online for a major indoor farm near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Scale Microgrid’s modular microgrid for Fifth Season, a startup indoor farming company, uses 160 kW of photovoltaic solar panels, 200 kW of lithium-ion batteries, and a 1,200-kW natural gas…
Food power per hour
US: Converting food waste into energy
Considering that 795 million people around the world go hungry on any given day, it is shocking that many of us throw away food on a daily basis. In fact, one-third of all food produced globally goes to waste each year, amounting to 1.3 billion tons of wasted food with a value exceeding $1 trillion.…
DesignLights Consortium releases update to technical requirements for horticultural lighting
“These changes help indoor growers to jump to LED products"
The DesignLights Consortium (DLC) today released the final version of its updated Technical Requirements for Horticultural Lighting (Version 2.1). Scheduled to take effect…
