CALI GROWERS PUSH BACK AT PROPOSED LED MANDATE

Growers are incensed by a recent proposal from the California Energy Commission that would require indoor growers to switch to light-emitting diodes (LEDs) by 2023. ????WW California has more.

• LEDs use much less energy than the standard metal halide or high-pressure sodium lights, but are also more expensive. According to one estimate, it would cost $255M for all growers in the state to make the switch.
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• Last week, WeedWeek talked to a scientist who called indoor growing environmentally indefensible.

Bloomberg has a video of the mid-pandemic (outdoor) harvest at Wellfounded Botanicals.

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