Four Star Fruit, a Delano, CA grower of premium table grapes, is committed to innovative business practices and a healthier environment and society. The family-owned company also has been growing at a rapid pace—20 percent from 2008 through 2010, and its power consumption doubled in that time.

“We were looking ahead at trends and noted that energy prices were predicted to increase from 2009 through 2014,” says Jesse Munguia, Four Star Fruit’s cold storage operations manager. “Since we use a very large amount of electricity during three critical months of the grape season, we wanted to get on top of this issue.”