David Serra, from Serra Farming. We've got a mixed agricultural, horticultural business on the Atherton Tablelands. Our avocados and bananas go along the East Coast of Australia, predominantly the chain stores. And we also got a drilling business which we, this is home based and we serve as Queensland from here. Regarding bananas, we've got 100 hectares of bananas on this site. It's predominantly irrigated from the Tinaroo Dam channel system. So yeah, that's where we're using the solar.

Yeah in our business, our energy costs per year, are about $220,000 a year. So the solar for us was a no brainer. The costs come from the packing operations over here and also coming from the pumping irrigation system. So the the irrigation system runs 24 hours a day, probably 320 days of the year, and so as you can imagine this quite a large energy user. The irrigation cost is the biggest, we use about 220,000 kilowatt hours a year. Water wise we're pumping 800 mega litres a year, which is 800 million litres a year. The energy usage on that's about 220,000 kilowatt hours a year. So quite large, the cost is quite high.

The tariffs, we're getting upward pressure on agricultural irrigation tariffs from Ergon, and obviously we're trying to reign in those costs. We're in an industry which is very often we're price receivers. So the only way we can move forward with our business and make positive changes to our bottom line is by reining in our costs. So that's what we're doing with the solar. Yeah, the solar was a good decision to our lower environmental footprint and also to reign in our costs, try and get a hold of energy costs and move forward. Make positive changes.