WEXUS (WATER-ENERGY NEXUS) BLOG
Agtech insights for driving water-energy efficiency
How to Export Your Energy and Water Data
Our export data feature was created to help you save a lot of time across your farming operations and reporting. Now you can simply go to Wexus’ “My Bills” page, click a few buttons, and export several years or specific months of electric (or gas) energy usage and billing data. This can significantly help your farm’s administrators, accountants, and sustainability managers by cutting down the amount of hours spent manually inputting paper bills into spreadsheets every month
How to Check Your Irrigation Pump Status & Maps
Our Pump Status Maps feature makes it a hell of a lot easier to make sense of what’s really going on with energy and water usage across all of your farming operations
How to Use Your Savings Plan
Because Wexus is dedicated to helping growers save money, energy & time, we’ve created a first-of-its kind feature to help you automatically identify and track cost ($), energy (kWh) and peak power (kW) savings. With the Savings Plan feature, Wexus automatically creates a plan based on your historical energy usage with suggested ways to drive savings. Then Wexus automatically tracks the savings for you by pulling in your utility bills and energy usage every month (or in real time if you have add’l hardware installed through our partners).
How to Use Your Farm Dashboard
When you log into the Wexus platform, the first thing you see is your Farm Dashboard. All historical data for at least the last 12 months from your utility bills
How to Use Your Irrigation Cost Calculator
The Wexus Irrigation Cost Calculator helps growers plan their weekly irrigation schedule and shows what your irrigation is actually costing you in energy bills.
Before going solar, harvest your low-hanging energy fruit first
Do you know any farmer that doesn’t harvest the lowest-hanging fruit? Why do the same for energy? The Solar Game Here’s a dirty secret: growers, processors, homeowners, and commercial businesses are spending too much money on solar energy installations. When many...
How Does Energy Efficiency Translate to Crop Yields?
Energy is Costly Let’s face it: energy costs aren’t the first thing a grower thinks about when running their farm. There are so many inputs to juggle in terms of operational costs: regulations and compliance, labor availability, equipment status, seed and soil...
Pumping 101: How Do You Diagnose Irrigation Pump Problems? (Part 4 of 4)
This is the fourth blog post in our educational series about pumps and irrigation pumping. We're building a knowledge base for energy and water efficiency in the agricultural industry, in order to make the most of our energy and water resources. The first three blog...
Wexus featured on KION-TV news at Center for Innovation & Tech in Salinas, CA
Wexus featured on KION-TV news to celebrate one-year anniversary at the Western Growers Center for Innovation and Technology in Salinas.
Pumping 101: What’s in An Irrigation Pump? Components (Part 3 of 4)
This is the third blog post in our four-part educational series about pumps and irrigation pumping. We’re building a knowledge base for energy and water efficiency in the agricultural industry, in order to make the most of our energy and water resources. The first two blog posts laid the groundwork about the basics of fluids and fluid mechanics, and provide a basic understanding of pumps and irrigation operations:
Pumping 101: What’s in an Irrigation Pump? Centrifugal Pump Basics (Part 2 of 4)
This is the second blog post in our four-part educational series about pumps and irrigation pumping. We’re building a knowledge base for energy and water efficiency in the agricultural industry, in order to make the most of our energy and water resources. The first blog post laid the groundwork about the basics of fluids and fluid mechanics and provide a basic understanding of pumps and irrigation operations:
Pumping 101: How Irrigation Pumps Move Water (Part 1 of 4)
This is the first blog post in our four-part educational series about pumps and irrigation pumping. We’re building a knowledge base for energy and water efficiency in the agricultural industry, in order to make the most of our energy and water resources. This first post lays the groundwork of basics of fluids and fluid mechanics, with the aim of providing an intuitive understanding of pumps and irrigation operations at farms.
Wexus Featured in Farm Bureau Magazine “Farm Focus”
Energy industry veterans with San Francisco–based Wexus Technologies Inc. have taken a new look at the water–energy nexus in agriculture. With the backing of the California Energy Commission, a research partnership with University of California at Davis, and a third-party partnership with Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), the energy engineers at Wexus have built a software platform for growers called “Wexus” that tackles the energy piece of the irrigation equation.
How Does Team Wexus Design Usable Products & Features for Growers?
The world of agriculture technology is booming. New products for growers are coming out at a faster rate than ever before. With so many new apps, devices and software platforms it can be a time-consuming process to weed out the good from the bad. As a user experience...
Wexus Customer Featured in New Indoor Ag Report by Orange Silicon Valley
New report from Orange Silicon Valley features Wexus customer Rocket Farms, the largest grower of indoor flowers, fresh cut herbs and potted edibles in the country.
Wexus is “Featured Startup of the Month” with leading Agtech Accelerator
Wexus Technologies, Inc., a resident of the Western Growers Center for Innovation and Technology, led a well attended Tech Talk® webinar on Tuesday, September 27 at 4PM (PST) to discuss the Water-Energy Nexus, the Energy Cloud, and how to make your business more competitive, profitable & valuable by closely tracking irrigation-energy usage and costs across your farm.
Pump Health Monitor: How Does Wexus Remotely Track Irrigation Pump Efficiency?
Know which irrigation pumps across your farm are wasting money and energy, and where to take action.
2016 CA Drought to Cost Farmers +$300 million in Irrigation Pumping Costs
Add’l irrigation costs, due to a heavier reliance on groundwater pumping, are estimated at over $303 million or 50% of the total annual economic impact of the drought.
CEC Funds Food Processors for EE Projects at $3M Each
UPDATE (8/7/2018): The CEC has extended the deadline to apply until September 14, 2018. The California Energy Commission (CEC) just launched a new funding program specifically for food processors. The CEC will fund food processors for EE and renewable energy projects...
What’s the Latest with Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) programs?
We've recently been getting a lot of questions from customers about Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) programs & how they fit into your Ag energy management strategy. What's a CCA? Per Wikipedia: "Community Choice Aggregation (CCA), also known as...
Wexus Selected for 2018 Village Capital Food & Ag Cohort
Wexus is proud to be selected for Village Capital's Food and Ag 2018 cohort. This is a re-post from the VilCap blog. You can find the original post here. Village Capital manages the longest-running program in the United States for startups building a more...