Costa Group invests $1m in generators to protect Australian mushrooms
Costa Group recently installed five back-up power generators at its mushroom farm at Mernda, on Melbourne’s northern outskirts, to guard again failed crops.
“At our biggest mushroom farm located in Mernda — which processes about 20 per cent of the nation’s mushroom crop and about 40 per cent of Costa’s — we have installed a total of five back-up generators to power that site in the event of any mains power outage." Costa Group spokesman Michael Toby told The Weekly Times.
“Having the generators removes the risk of power outage incidents which could destroy up to seven weeks of crop per incident.”
Mr Toby said just a few hours without energy, used for refrigeration and lighting, could affect a mushroom crop, with costs potentially running to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
source: weeklytimesnow.com.au
