Horticultural Lighting

Maximize Speed and Harvest While Reducing Electric Load

Compared to outdoor farming, indoor horticultural lighting can increase production by as much as 350% and shorten growth cycles. Energy efficient LED lighting delivers the right light at the proper strength and best reach for indoor crop growth while offsetting the energy costs of traditional lamps by up to 50%.

EMC can help you develop a horticultural lighting solution or enhance your current operations to meet new goals and objectives. Our team offers:

Audit/consultation services to help you identify priorities
Design services with vendor-neutral approach to lighting technologies
Turnkey implementation
Controls integration
Ongoing service support

Horticultural Lighting Applications

Verticle (stacked)

High-density growing

Warehouse (non-stacked)

Medium-density growing

Greenhouse

Supplemental lighting

Indoor LED Horticultural Lighting Benefits

Climate Control

Reduced Operational Expenses

Greater Yield

Shorter Time to Market

Optimized Light

Lower Labor Costs

How it Works

Plants grow best within a specific spectrum of light. This photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) is a spectral range of solar radiation from 400 to 700 nanometers that photosynthetic organisms use to create food from carbon dioxide and water. Different colors in this spectrum can have different effects on plant growth as well, depending on the stage of growth.

Blue light helps make stronger stems and creates more leaves.
Red light helps to make larger flowers and larger fruit.

Effective Delivery Measures

Strength

Photosynthetic Photon Flux (PPF) describes the number of photons within the PAR wavelength range produced by a grow light per unit time (μmol/s). PPF determines if a grow light is strong enough to grow plants.

Coverage

Photosynthetic Photon Flux Density (PPFD) tracks micromoles of photons per unit time over the area of a plant, (μmol/(m²*s)), typically measured on a point basis.

Learn More About Grow Lighting

HortiCann 2020 Introduces Industry-changing Plant Growth Research and New Efficacy Standards

Keynote speaker Dr. Bruce Bugbee, director of the University of Utah Crop Physiology Laboratory, immediately set the tone for the convention by presenting research demonstrating the effects of Far Red (FR) and UV-A light on plant growth. READ MORE

Desk Jalapeños: An Accidental Grow Light Experiment Yields Spicy Results

EMC has long maintained a light lab to evaluate new and emerging lighting technologies. READ MORE

DesignLights Consortium: The Go-to Resource for Emerging Horticultural Lighting Incentives

With the horticulture market expected to reach a billion square feet of space by 2040, utilities are evolving their approach to incentives for controlled environment agriculture (CEA). READ MORE

Take Your Grow Operations to the Next Level with LED Lighting

Enhance productivity and reduce electric load today. Let our team help you find the best grow lighting solution for your facility.

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