Kneehill County — Energy Consulting
In Kneehill, Three Weeks of Drying Can Set Your Bill for the Year.
Or it can be spread out so it doesn't. Which one you're living depends on your rate class, your dryer, and how your services are metered — and that's readable from twelve months of bills.
Grain Drying Is a Demand Problem, Not a Consumption Problem.
What's certain: an electric dryer plus aeration plus handling equipment running simultaneously creates one of the largest coincident loads on a Kneehill farm. And demand charges bill the coincidence, not the total.
What's conditional: whether that's actually costing you. It depends on which rate class each service sits on, whether your dryer is electric or gas, whether the yard and the house share a meter, and whether your peak is genuinely set at harvest or by something else entirely.
Some operations here are paying a premium every month for three weeks of activity. Others aren't. The bills say which.
The Gas-Versus-Electric Question Isn't Simple.
Producers ask whether to move drying from propane or natural gas to electric, or the reverse.
Certain: the fuel comparison isn't just cents per unit of energy. An electric dryer adds to your billed demand, and that charge can persist in months when you aren't drying at all, depending on how your tariff treats demand.
Conditional: whether that makes electric worse for you. On some rate structures it's marginal. On others it reshapes the entire economics. This is exactly the calculation that gets skipped, and it's not one anyone should run on your behalf without seeing your actual rate schedule.
Who This Is For
Operations We Serve in Kneehill County
Dryland grain and oilseed
Cattle and backgrounding
Seed cleaning and grain handling
Commercial and light industrial
The Assessment
What We Actually Look At
Your bills
Twelve months, line by line. Delivery charges, riders, retailer rate, administration fees, and which rate class you're on. We check whether you're on the right one.
Your loads
Panel and circuit inventory, motors, compressors, refrigeration, heating, irrigation. What's drawing power, when, and how much.
Your lighting
Fixture count, type, wattage, and hours of operation. This is usually where the fastest payback hides.
Your infrastructure
Transformer capacity, service voltage, and main breaker size. This determines what's even possible before anyone talks about equipment.
The Process
Four Steps, No Pressure
Send us your bills
Twelve months if you have them. We can pull them from your retailer if you don't.
We analyze
Rate class, demand profile, load breakdown, lighting inventory.
You get a written findings report
Where the money is going, what it would cost to change it, and what the payback looks like on each option.
You decide
Do the work with us, take the report to another contractor, or do nothing. It's yours either way.
Why Independent
We’d Rather Tell You No Than Sell You Something.
We’ve told operations that solar didn’t pencil out on their rate class. We’ve told others that lighting alone would get them most of the savings for a fraction of the cost. We’ve told a few that the fastest win was switching retailers.
That’s the job. The assessment is how we earn the right to recommend anything at all — and if the numbers don’t support a project, you’ll hear that instead.
Service Area
Towns We Serve in Kneehill County
Start With the Numbers.
The assessment is free and there’s no obligation attached to it. Worst case, you find out you’re already running efficiently — and that’s worth knowing too.
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