How is the excess solar production at Serra Farming helping to power the local community?

It's a great feeling to have solar panels installed on the roof generating power 8 days out of 10, even during the wet season. The system is not only covering our power usage but also feeding the excess energy back into the grid. As growers, we're under constant price pressure, and the only way to control it is to be efficient and reign in our costs. Choosing a solar system that provides good quality, backup service, and longevity was crucial to our decision.

<br/>By feeding clean, green energy into the grid, we're not only helping the community but also lowering the cost of power over time. The goal was to cover our usage, and we're achieving that. The extra power generated by the solar panels will eventually help us offset the downward price pressure from big players in the industry. It's essential to be efficient and make the right decisions to remain profitable in this industry.

Yeah, it's a good feeling to have the panels up on the roof over here, installed, generating power 8 days out of 10 through the wet season. We're covering our usage which is great, which is what the goal was. Yeah, really good to see that the system's putting the power out and not only that, when we're not using, they're putting the power back in the grid. Yeah, we're feeding the energy back into the grid, so everything we don't use throughout the week when we're not packing on the weekend, that energy gets pumped back into the grid and yeah it's clean green energy. It gives extra power to the community and hopefully over time we'll help to lower the cost of power.

As a grower we're price receivers in this industry. So quite often we're under a very, very strong downward price pressures from the big players, and the only way we can really control that is by reigning in our costs, being efficient. And at the end of the day, choosing a solar system which was going to give us good quality, good backup service, and longevity was paramount to our decision.