
Australia Retailer Coles Trials Fully NatRef-Based Heating and Cooling System
Its Glebe Hill supermarket in Howrah features CO2 heat pumps and an R290 chiller in novel deployment.
Its Glebe Hill supermarket in Howrah features CO2 heat pumps and an R290 chiller in novel deployment.
Energy savings are being realized in Australia, according to AJ Baker & Sons.
Automatic Heating has installed 11 ITOMIC units of varying sizes at six carbon-neutral Nightingale Housing apartment buildings.
Installations could climb to around 1,000 sites by 2025, driven by retailers.
Automatic Heating has installed more than 100 Itomic CO2 heat pumps in a wide range of commercial and residential projects, boasting COPs of up to 4.2.
Retrofitting with the ECO2Dairy on-farm CO2 cooling and water heating system could deliver 3.7% reduction in country’s total carbon emissions, while offering the farmer significant savings, says manufacturer.
By the end of 2022, the Japanese manufacturer expects to have sold around 100 condensing units across Australia and New Zealand in partnership with McAlpine Hussmann.
The supermarket chain is expanding its transcritical CO2 footprint and moving into more regional areas of the country.
The new Beijer Ref Academy in Australia is offering the country’s only nationally accredited R744 training course for technicians and installers.
The facility will be equipped with solar panels and rainwater harvesting, and has a low-carbon policy for the construction.