Yield Energy, previously Polaris Vitality Companies, has launched Yield Edge DERMS, its agriculture-first distributed vitality useful resource administration system.
With greater than 200 MW of agricultural load beneath administration, together with over 100 MW enrolled in PG&E’s agriculture-specific Hourly Flex Pricing (HFP) pilot, Yield Vitality helps farm operations help the grid whereas producing new recurring income for growers.
Backed by almost $3 million in funding from the California Vitality Fee (CEC), Yield Vitality has validated its platform through state-supported work, confirming that agricultural operations can ship automated, dependable, utility-grade flexibility at scale. This validation permits utilities to confidently faucet agricultural hundreds whereas guaranteeing growers profit financially — with out altering the best way they farm.
Yield Edge DERMS orchestrates irrigation pumps and can quickly have functionality to entry chilly storage, EV and tools chargers, photo voltaic arrays, batteries and on-site era, reworking on a regular basis farm belongings into quick, clear and dispatchable digital energy crops that reply to grid wants in actual time.
“Agriculture has all the time had the potential to be one of many grid’s strongest companions — it simply wanted the correct instruments,” stated Tyler Nuss, CEO of Yield Vitality. “We’ve confirmed that on-farm operations can ship dependable, grid-ready flexibility at scale. Yield Vitality connects that flexibility to the operational calls for of at this time’s grid, creating new income for growers whereas delivering capability that’s quicker, cleaner, and way more inexpensive than new infrastructure.”
Yield Vitality integrates with a broad ecosystem of AgTech companions — together with WiseConn, Farmblox, LUMO, Ranch Systems, Swan Systems, Netafim and Verdi — enabling pumps, sensors and automation {hardware} to take part mechanically in demand response and different grid applications with quick response occasions and minimal disruption to farm operations.
“Partnering with Yield Vitality is reworking what’s doable for our growers,” stated a WiseConn spokesperson. “With a single integration, our irrigation expertise can now unlock new income, faucet into extra utility applications, and ship measurable worth again to farms — all whereas strengthening the grid.”
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