Current State
Energy companies aren’t keeping up with our farmers needs. Although a farmer’s needs are different from your everyday consumer’s needs, energy companies do not offer specific solutions for farming but instead give them the run of the mill service.
This causes wastage, increased costs and inefficient use of energy on farms all around New Zealand.
Solution
At the heart of digital agriculture lies the opportunity for new systems and information sharing to lower the costs for farmers throughout the country.
farmenergy is a ground breaking Agritech business using intelligent technology and predictive analytics to connect real time energy use to the wholesale energy market. This gives farmers better control over their costs and fairer prices.
Future State
The future of the agricultural industry will see New Zealand farmers with more control over their energy usage and the costs associated with them. They will have access to the wholesale energy market which has never been done before and they will have a energy provider which offers a true farming solution.
Once farmenergy has transformed the energy market, we will continue our mission by moving into other commodity products.
How it helps Farmers
Fairer Prices
Using our smart technology, we are able to open up the wholesale energy market to farmers all over New Zealand. What this means for farmers, is that they have access to pricing that reflects the costs of what they actually use when they use it and not an averaged cost created for everyday consumers. As farmers use most of their energy in off-peak times, such as summer or early in the morning, this means fairer prices and the chance for regular savings.
More Control
By using farmenergy, you enhance your control over the amount of energy you are using, when you are using it and how much you pay for it. We also provide financial hedging products to enable farmers to have greater certainty on their energy costs.
A Energy Partner
Unlike current energy companies, farmenergy is here to help you grow your business. We do this by delivering you a service that focuses on reducing your energy costs. When your business grows, we grow with you.
Meet the Team
“The secret of success is to focus all of your energies not on fighting the old, but on building the future”
Alan co-founded Red Energy and grew that company to a $1 billion award-winning energy business in Australia. Further to his successes in Australia, he was able to transform a large retail energy company in New Zealand which had a turn over in excess of $1 billion.
With over 20 years of energy industry experience, he is leading the charge in reforming the agriculture energy industry as we know it.
Natasha has committed to improving the profitability and sustainability of Agriculture. She is a Nuffield scholar and has dairy farming in her blood.
She started and grew a $500 million agribusiness electricity portfolio in NZ for a large energy retailer and has been a senior sales manager targeting agribusinesses in different industries for many years.
Sharon has spent the last 13 years in the energy industry, progressing from commercial & domestic solid fuel heating & insulation, to lighting, electricity & gas.
Her site assessments are thorough, analysing where energy escapes & how to economise effectively, having installed ceiling & underfloor insulation AND wood burners. Over & above, she knows the front end from the back end of a cowshed, in case you’re ever in need of a meeting while on the job…. Her milking boots are in the boot, literally.
Sharon & her partner contract milk in Hawkes Bay, equipping Sharon with extensive “on farm” knowledge & many interesting conversations with her client base.
It goes without saying, her passion, dedication & commitment to the agricultural & horticultural arenas through the energy industry, prove a real asset to farmenergy.
