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Posted @ 4/11/2017 5:32 AM By Martha Parsons
Bloomberg News, Mar. 30, 2017, by Chris Martin.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-30/a-buzzkill-for-utilities-high-on-hope-for-legal-weed-power-surge
"With local restrictions on marijuana easing across the U.S., power suppliers from California to Maine were expecting a little buzz of their own from newly legitimate pot farmers. After all, a 5,000-square-foot warehouse filled with hydroponic growing systems can draw five times the electricity of a typical industrial user. But after an initial jolt in electricity use, when western states began legalizing marijuana cultivation and sales, demand has fallen off in some areas, according to utilities and analysts."
Posted @ 1/10/2017 6:05 AM By Martha Parsons
Energy Trust Blog, Jan. 4, 2017.
https://blog.energytrust.org/leds-yerba-buenas-vegetative-room-deliver-9-month-payback/
"Yerba Buena, a CleanGreen™ Certified cannabis grower in Hillsboro [Oregon], prides itself on being a good steward of the Earth. Part of the company’s commitment to energy conservation involves looking for ways to reduce energy use. In an industry known for energy intensity, Yerba Buena became one of the first recreational cannabis growers to take advantage of Energy Trust’s technical assistance and cash incentives when the company replaced T5 fluorescent lighting in its vegetative room with tubular LEDs."
Posted @ 12/23/2016 5:08 AM By Martha Parsons
Utility Dive, Dec. 14, 2016, by Robert Walton.
http://www.utilitydive.com/news/marijuana-growers-are-seeing-the-led-light-on-energy-efficiency/431991/
"Commercial growers in Washington state are cutting their power bills in half with LEDs — and earning huge utility rebates for installation"
Posted @ 12/6/2016 5:10 AM By Martha Parsons
New York Times, Nov. 25, 2016, by Diane Cardwell.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/25/business/energy-environment/marijuana-legal-environment-lights.html?_r=0
[Subsidized by Puget Sound Energy], "Evergrow Northwest, a legal producer of recreational marijuana in Tumwater, Wash., is running an experiment, comparing using LED lights to grow cannabis with using more common high-pressure sodium bulbs."
Posted @ 12/1/2016 5:10 AM By Martha Parsons
HybridTech News, Nov. 23, 2016, by Chris Gromek.
http://hybridtech.us/room-to-grow/
"...it’s a brand new day for the electrical systems that serve marijuana grows and other indoor agricultural installations. And the lighting industry is taking notice. In March 2016, market research firm MarketsandMarkets released an analysis that forecasts a doubling in demand for grow lights worldwide between 2016 and 2022, with sales approaching $4.2 billion by the end of that period. More than half of that growth is expected to take place in North America."
Posted @ 4/25/2016 5:24 AM By Martha Parsons
Grist, Apr. 21, 2016, Umbra.
http://grist.org/living/can-you-grow-pot-with-led-lights/
"Can marijuana be grown as effectively under LED lighting and proper climate control rather than energy-sucking heat lamps?"
Posted @ 11/19/2015 6:04 AM By Martha Parsons
Utility Dive, Nov. 13, 2015, by Gavin Bade.
http://www.utilitydive.com/news/pot-power-how-utilities-and-regulators-are-dealing-with-the-budding-mariju/409172/
"Marijuana growing is becoming so mainstream — and is consuming so much energy — that electric utilities and their regulators from coast to coast are sitting up and taking notice."
Posted @ 11/12/2015 1:40 PM By Martha Parsons
Utility Dive, Nov. 6, 2015, by Robert Walton.
http://www.utilitydive.com/news/marijuana-grow-houses-trigger-7-summer-outages-for-pacific-power/408741/
"Pacific Power is urging would-be home growers to consult with the utility before starting up their marijuana operations, same as they should any time a customer intends to significantly increase their power load."
Posted @ 10/1/2015 10:33 AM By Martha Parsons
The Oregonian/Oregon Live, Sep. 5, 2015, by Ted Sinkinger.
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2015/09/powering_pot_growers_will_gobb.html
"Indoor cannabis grows are notorious energy hogs. And as Oregon's weed industry scales up to meet recreational demand, experts predict it could emerge as a big load on the regional power grid. The questions nagging power planners are how big, and to make the grows more efficient."
Posted @ 9/24/2015 12:10 PM By Martha Parsons
E Source, Sep. 11, 2015, by David Podorson.
http://www.esource.com/TAS-F-18/CannabisCultivation#toc_Ack
"With the recent legalization of cannabis in some states, cultivation facilities have rushed to increase production and gain market share, and they have often overlooked energy considerations in the process. Indoor cannabis cultivation facilities are huge energy consumers with year-round loads; each marijuana plant consumes more energy than seven refrigerators, and each cultivation facility may contain up to 400 plants.... Here we present nine tips for quickly and easily reducing the energy consumption of these facilities."