Founder/President/CEO shares details about the GZ Institute Research Campus
The GridZero Solutions Institute Research Campus (GZ Campus), as seen in the conceptual rendering below, is a 20+ acre site planned for a 60 + acre vineyard located within the Santa Ynez Valley, in Santa Barbara County California. It will be built with the support of GZ Institute Sponsorships, state and federal grants, plus corporate donations. The objective is to study the growth of citrus trees, berries, and other produce under a solar canopy, verses traditional open air farming
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The project will make power to use to make water from humidity, operate the winery or related farming or food processing operations. We use the GridZero Solar Canopies that produce over one mega watt of power each. This includes vertical farming operations.
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Some of this energy will be used along with the water to produce green hydrogen to fuel farm equipment, back up generators and make the entire facility capable of operating off the grid.
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GZ Institute will oversee all sresearch projects, do lab work, data collection and annual reports. They will seek out and work to obtain state and federal grants for zero emission research, sustainable agriculture, solar and wind energy and green hydrogen fuel related projects.
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