Resource Use

Verdify measures the resources spent to reduce plant stress: electricity, gas heat, and water. Better planning should lower those costs over time by choosing the right tool for the job, avoiding waste, and shifting flexible electrical work into solar-rich windows when the greenhouse can safely do that.

The greenhouse is solar-aligned, not off-grid. The current electric cost rollup is a gross operating estimate: measured greenhouse kWh priced at the launch electric rate. It does not subtract rooftop solar or Powerwall offset. Solar overlap is shown separately so readers can see when fans, pumps, fog, mist, and lights are running during the best production windows.

For the deeper accounting page, see Economics. For the live equipment view, see Operations.

Solar Alignment

Solar is both the opportunity and the stressor. When irradiance rises, the greenhouse heats up, and the controller tends to spend electricity and water on fans, fog, mist, and pumps to hold temperature and VPD in range. When irradiance falls and cold air takes over, the resource story shifts to Heat 2 gas runtime, especially overnight and during morning recovery. The timing views below show those relationships directly: electric load against solar, gas therms/min against solar, and water GPM against solar. The combined view also adds outdoor temperature and humidity so the resource use is visible against the weather that drives it.

Resource Use Cards

30-day daily averages

30-day rolling totals

Cost Rollup

Greenhouse operating cost

30-day cost by resource

Long-Range Cost

The cost chart separates electrical work, gas heat, and water so the solar-aligned part of the project stays connected to measured operating use.