Lundberg Family Farm

Stellar Energy GP, Inc. is a leading solar integrator for American farms and agricultural processing facilities. Stellar worked closely with the Lundberg family to design and install this 350kW solar array to meet the energy needs of the farm and storage facility.

“This solar energy option,” said Jessica Lundberg, board chair and nursery manager for Lundberg Family Farms, “not only falls in line with the company’s environmentally focused philosophy, but it makes good business sense. If you’re willing to put up the capital and you have the space available, the money is there to help you with it.” The Lundberg family expects the investment to pay for itself in about 8 years.

Being a family business, when we invest, we’re planning long-term, both in terms of sustaining the soil and environment and in making sure there’s a viable business to pass on to the future generations. – Jessica Lundberg

During the course of the year, the system will produce more than 350,000 kilowatts of clean energy from plentiful California sunshine. Energy generated by the solar array will reduce more than 11,000 tons of carbon dioxide pollution over 25 years, which is the equivalent to planting 130 acres of trees or not driving 28 million miles

Along with Draker Lab's standard PV monitoring equipment, the system also uses a Net Energy package to closely monitor its investment and how energy flows to and from the utility grid.