The Energy Savers program has undertaken audits of on-farm irrigation and processing systems on farms from a many industries through Queensland.

These case studies are available on an easy to use filtering tool that allows you to tailor your results to specificity to region, industry, pump type or technology.

QFF encourage farmers and producers to take a look and see how other farm business’ are saving money on their power bill through energy efficiencies.

Energy Savers case studies HERE.

A Mareeba banana farm is on track to save 45% of the power bill for one of their pump stations with a new variable speed drive and a tariff change recommended in the Energy Savers audit. They are also getting more even watering and expect to cut maintenance costs!

Aspley Nursery have installed a solar hot water system, replaced some fluorescent lights with LEDs and replaced their main irrigation pump with a smaller variable speed pump.  The nursery is saving enough to keep them below the threshold for demand pricing of 100 megawatt hours per year (MWh/y). More information HERE.

In this case study, David Sartori from Lower Burdekin Water explains how they have reduced energy consumption by 40% by adding variable speed controls a 130kW fixed speed pump at Kilrie Gully Pump station. He talks about a range of other benefits and advises that Lower Burdekin Water are rolling out the technology to all their pump stations and new projects. More information HERE.

This case study shows how a Burdekin Cane Farm is reducing irrigation energy costs by around $5,000 per year with about a 30% saving and a payback of 1.2 years thanks to the QFF Energy Savers Program. See the full case study HERE

This case study shows how a Clare melon farm is reducing irrigation energy costs thanks to the energy savers program saving delivering a 10 – 15% of $25,000 off their annual $250,000 power bill. Full case study HERE.