Storage And Cooling
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Over the last couple of years, I have been involved with an Innovate UK (IUK) funded research project focusing on improving storage conditions for potatoes. The fundamental aim is to improve the evenness of airflow in potato stores, allowing anti-sprouting agents to be distributed more evenly across the crop. More
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Goodbye, Mr Chips
24.02.2016
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All ‘large organisations’ in the UK are to undergo an energy audit by December 2015, under new plans revealed by the government. More
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Government have taken a step nearer to providing a mechanism to reward electricity use reduction, with DECC talking about how such an idea might be built into the Electricity Market Reform proposals. More
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At Farm Energy Centre, a three-year project we've been working on with the Potato Council is just coming to an end and I’m wading through a 100-page plus report which covers all our monitoring and findings on energy efficiency in potato storage. More