Yield Energy announced the launch of Yield Edge, an agriculture-focused distributed energy resource management system (DERMS) designed to aggregate on-farm operations into utility-grade grid resources.
The launch accompanies the company’s rebrand from Polaris Energy Services, marking a shift toward a platform model built to interface with a range of agricultural technologies rather than proprietary hardware.
The system is currently used to manage irrigation pump loads and is being expanded to include additional farm-based energy assets such as cold storage, EV and equipment charging, on-site solar, batteries, and generation. By coordinating these loads, farms can enroll existing equipment in demand response and other flexibility programs without altering day-to-day operations.
Yield Energy reported that participating sites in California have demonstrated consistent demand response performance and measurable peak load-shifting capability, creating an additional revenue stream for growers using existing infrastructure.
“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, in a statement. “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.”
More than 200 megawatts (MW) of agricultural load is being managed through the platform, including over 100 MW participating in Pacific Gas & Electric’s Hourly Flex Pricing pilot for agriculture.
Development and validation of the system were supported by approximately $3 million in funding from the California Energy Commission (CEC).
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