Windset Farms® is proud to be featured in the latest episode of Everything Electric: Fully Charged YouTube series titled "Clean Energy Tech Is Changing the Way We Grow Food". The episode showcases how the company is pushing the boundaries of sustainable agriculture through controlled environment innovations, highlighting how it grows energy-efficient tomatoes and cucumbers using state-of-the-art greenhouses, precision farming, thermal curtain systems, water irrigation technologies, and other sustainability practices.
The episode is centred around the company's 92-acre greenhouse facility location in Delta, BC. A partnership between BC Hydro and Windset has enabled the company to expand its Delta facility in recent years, making it Western North America's largest LED-lit greenhouse powered by renewable electricity from BC Hydro. The greenhouses are equipped with systems designed for energy efficiency and sustainability, ensuring a year-round supply of vegetables to customers across North America. By utilizing energy efficient LED lights instead of high-pressure sodium lights, electrical consumption is reduced by approximately 55 percent. The company was named a Clean Energy Champion by BC Hydro, recognizing its commitment to innovative energy solutions.
These efforts are central to the company's mission to reduce its environmental footprint and improve resource efficiency. The video gives viewers an inside look at the company's growing practices and its motivations for continuing to raise the bar on sustainability.
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In addition, the company's co-owner and CEO, Steven Newell, spoke at the Everything Electric Canada trade show in Vancouver earlier this month. "There's a real push from retailers and consumers to have locally grown produce, and to make that possible, it all came down to the availability of power," said Newell. "Knowing we've got the electricity we need gives us and our partners certainty of assured locally grown, B.C. supply, year-round."
For more information:
Randi Church
Windset Farms
Tel: (+1) 778 908 1029
[email protected]
www.greenhousegrown.com
