Wheatland County — Energy Consulting
Irrigation Peaks in July. So Does Everything Else on Your Bill.
Pivot pumps are among the largest single loads in Wheatland County — and they run in the months when demand charges are most expensive to set. Whether that's hurting you depends entirely on your rate structure.
Pumping Is a Demand Load.
What's certain: a pivot pump draws hard and draws steadily. Run two at once and the coincident load can define your peak for the season.
What's conditional: what that costs. Irrigation services sometimes sit on their own meter and their own rate class, sometimes share with the yard, and sometimes sit on a class that no longer suits how the operation runs. The difference between those arrangements can be substantial across an irrigation season.
Staggering pump starts is sometimes worth real money and sometimes worth nothing at all. It depends on how your tariff calculates demand — which is a question with an actual answer, once someone reads the bill.
Irrigation and Solar Are Better Matched Than Most Loads.
Worth saying plainly, because it cuts the other way: irrigation is one of the load profiles where solar can align well. You pump in summer, panels produce in summer.
That doesn't make it automatic. Whether the numbers work still turns on your rate class, your demand structure, your service capacity, and what incentives you qualify for. But if an audit anywhere in our service area is likely to end with "yes, and here's why" — irrigated Wheatland acres are a reasonable candidate.
We still want to see the bills first.
Who This Is For
Operations We Serve in Wheatland County
Irrigated and dryland crop
Cattle and feeding operations
Grain handling
Light industrial and processing
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.
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.
Get a Free Energy Assessment