Scottish vertical farming technology will be at the heart of a new "GigaFarm" in the state of New York. The 387,500sq ft facility will be built in Cobleskill, a small town in Schoharie County. It is being developed by New York-based Empire State Greenhouses (ESG) in partnership with Scottish vertical farming pioneer Intelligent Growth Solutions (IGS).
A total of 100 "growth towers" will produce nearly 3,000 tons of fresh produce annually. A further 690 tons a year will be grown in on-site greenhouses.
IGS has its headquarters in Edinburgh, but technology development is spread across sites in Fife and Dundee. Its engineering innovation center is in Inverkeithing, and its crop research center is based at the James Hutton Institute in Invergowrie. The company also has a US office, in Loveland, Colorado.
In Cobleskill, vertical farming towers supplied by IGS will be integrated into a network of facilities including renewable energy generation and food-energy-waste systems. This setup is expected to eliminate one-third of the cost of food deriving from energy.
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