FarmTracker Design Group
Sustainable Energy Calculators
Sustainable Energy Calculators
Six purpose-built calculators for greenhouse heating, solar power, rainwater harvesting, wind energy, grow lighting, and backup power — from initial design through financial payback.
Design underground heat exchange systems that store summer solar energy in the soil to provide frost-free winters for your greenhouse — passively.
Size a solar photovoltaic system for your home, farm, or greenhouse. Calculate array size, battery storage, costs, incentives, and 25-year financial returns.
Size catchment areas, storage tanks, and irrigation supply for your greenhouse or property using local rainfall data.
Size wind turbines for your site, estimate annual output using local wind resources, and calculate financial returns.
Size supplemental and full-cycle grow lighting by crop DLI requirements, fixture efficacy, and energy cost.
Size backup generators for critical farm and greenhouse loads, calculate fuel consumption, runtime, and operating costs.
Most calculators use an interactive map to auto-fill climate data — solar resource, degree days, rainfall, wind speeds — tailored to your site.
Every field updates instantly as you type. No forms to submit — watch costs and outputs change in real time as you refine your design.
Built on NREL solar data, EPA emissions factors, and published agronomic research — field-tested formulas you can trust for real design decisions.
Built and maintained by FarmTracker Design Group. Share your numbers, provide feedback, and discuss findings to advance sustainable growing.
The sustainable energy tools above help you design better growing systems. FarmTracker is what you use once they're built — a full farm management platform for tracking everything that happens on your land, from a single raised bed to a thousand-acre operation.
Whether you're managing a backyard homestead or coordinating field crews across hundreds of acres, FarmTracker scales with you — same platform, no switching tools as you grow.
Animals, crops, equipment, harvests, inputs, expenses, and field observations — logged in one place with GPS mapping, calendar scheduling, and real-time dashboards.
Every farm is different. FarmTracker lets you define your own record types, fields, tags, and workflows so the system fits how you actually work — not the other way around.