Yield Energy has more than 200 MW of agricultural load under management, including over 100 MW enrolled in PG&E’s agriculture-specific Hourly Flex Pricing (HFP) pilot, demonstrating how on-farm operations support the grid while generating new recurring revenue for growers.
The company is supported by nearly $3 million in funding from the California Energy Commission (CEC). It has validated its platform through state-supported work, confirming that agricultural operations can deliver automated, reliable, utility-grade flexibility at scale. This validation enables utilities to confidently tap agricultural loads while ensuring growers benefit financially - without changing the way they farm.
The Yield Edge DERMS primarily manages irrigation pumps and is expanding its capability to include all on-farm DER’s including cold storage, EV and equipment chargers, solar arrays, batteries, and on-site generation - transforming everyday farm assets into fast, clean, and dispatchable virtual power plants that respond to grid needs in real time.
“Agriculture has always had the potential to be one of the grid’s most powerful partners - it just needed the right tools” said Tyler Nuss, CEO of Yield Energy. “We’ve proven that on-farm operations can deliver reliable, grid-ready flexibility at scale. Yield connects that flexibility to the operational demands of today’s grid, creating new revenue for growers while delivering capacity that’s faster, cleaner, and far more affordable than new infrastructure.”
Yield Energy integrates seamlessly with a broad ecosystem of AgTech partners - including WiseConn, Farmblox, LUMO, Ranch Systems, Swan Systems, Netafim, and Verdi - enabling pumps, sensors, and automation hardware to participate automatically in demand response and other grid programmes, with fast response times and minimal disruption to farm operations.
This combination of state-validated technology and deep AgTech collaboration has already delivered strong performance across California, including:
100 percent average demand response performance across enrolled devices
67 percent demonstrated load-shift potential during peak hours
$20,000+ in annual revenue per grower, on average
More than 10,000 on-farm devices enabled on the platform
“Partnering with Yield Energy is transforming what’s possible for our growers” added a WiseConn spokesperson. “With a single integration, our irrigation technology can now unlock new revenue, tap into more utility programmes, and deliver measurable value back to farms — all while strengthening the grid.”
By aligning agricultural operations with utility needs, Yield Energy delivers a new category of clean, flexible capacity: large, responsive loads that can shift within minutes, support localised grid reliability, and do so at a dramatically lower cost than new storage or infrastructure upgrades - creating a scalable pathway for utilities to integrate on-farm resources into grid planning while strengthening the economic resilience of growers.
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