Founder/President/CEO shares his GridZero Agriculture business model
GridZero Agriculture (GZ Agriculture) came out of a project we are developing for a new California vineyard project. The goal is to grow grapevines under a solar canopy to generate power to use for its winery operations, power water makers and sell surplus power back into the local power grid. This project made sense, and appears to be a viable option or growing citrus, berries, even coffee beans.
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So we saw a unique opportunity to develop GridZero MetalWorks (GZ MetalWorks) to build and install our Solar Modules, GridZero Green Energy to provide and install the custom solar panels, and GridZero HumidaPureWater to generate water from humidity for the vineyard or other applications. Before long we had designed a solar canopy module that we have incoporated into other projects
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Our goal is to maximize the value and use existing of Ag Lands, vineyards ir citrus groves, while incorporating a series of atmospheric water makers that convert humidity to drink-ready water. Water that can be use for farming, making wine or for retail sale.
The added value is the sale of surplus power into the local power grid foer added revenue. To accomplish this we developed the module seen on the right that consists of three 100' x 200' open air metal building frame sections to create a 60,000 SF module canopy.
This can turn a small vineyard into a multi-MegaWatt power resource using Bifacial Solar panel on the canopy.
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In the standard design seen above, this one modeule can power 10 Atmospheric Water Generators (AWG) made by Watergen, to generate up to 15,000 gallons of water Water per day for irrigation purposes. Water would also be collected from roof-tops and fed into an underground concrete reservoir for use as needed.
Once formed GridZero Agriculture will be operate a series of farms and vineyards with solar power canopies to prove out the best crops that grow under them. Many of these will be located or built as part of the proposed EVPowerHUBZ projects. A rendering is seen below of a series of solar canopy modules as seen above, that are linked together to create a solar power generating farm.
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The proposed GridZero EVPowerHUBZ
projects will be set on 32 acres as
shown here, or larger parcels, and will generate 15.5 MW of power, without impacting the food crops, grapes or citrus grown below the canopy. We use bifacial solar panels like shown below that allow adequate sunlight to shine through them so not to impact actual plant growth, while protecting them.
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The proposed EVPowerHUBZ projects can be built almost anywhere, with or without the solar canopy module farm. They are flexible in site design, while all units will still offer similar services. GridZero Agriculture will likely grow produce, citrus and even grapes for wine making in its california locations.
The H2TruckHUBZ will also be located under a solar canopy in all locations, while non-farm land applications will
feature Boat & RV storage space or trucking parking under the modules.
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