San Francisco-based EOS Climate has expanded its carbon-credits programme to allow supermarkets to earn carbon credits by installing newly manufactured, advanced refrigeration systems – such as natural refrigerant solutions – either as complete replacements of HCFC- or HFC-based equipment, or as installations in new facilities.
Hillphoenix, the Conyers, Georgia, US-based OEM that has installed transcritical CO2 booster systems in about 150 food stores in North America, is making the argument that this refrigeration technology is a viable solution “across the [U.S.],” including “very warm climates,” said Dustan Atkinson, Hillphoenix’s manager of product strategy.
Contractor Climate Pros, which this month has been installing a transcritical CO2 system for a Mariano’s supermarket in the Chicago area, is eager to start using copper-iron piping from Mueller Industries for its transcritical installations, said Richard Adkins, vice-president of sales for Climate Pros.
Source Refrigeration & HVAC, a major U.S. contractor based in Anaheim, California, is in the process of installing a subcritical CO2 refrigeration system at its headquarters’ training centre to serve as a technician-training tool.
Food Lion, a division of Ahold Delhaize, has found its first transcritical CO2 installation to be “very successful from a refrigeration standpoint,” though the chain is still evaluating the year-old system’s energy performance, said Wayne Rosa, energy & maintenance manager, Food Lion (Delhaize America Shared Services).
US retailer Piggly Wiggly has recorded energy savings averaging 28.5% over a seven-month period in a Georgia store, thanks mainly to its ammonia/CO2 refrigeration system.
Facing astronomical oil heating costs, the Alaska SeaLife Center turned to heat pumps that leverage nearby seawater with a high-powered CO2 system.
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