The Carbon Trust has published a new guide setting out easy, no or low cost steps that businesses can take to cut their refrigeration energy bills by up to 20%.
Refrigeration consumes large amounts of energy – up to 50% of energy costs for some businesses especially hospitality businesses involved in food processing.
Refrigeration Systems
The guide, Refrigeration Systems, includes a range of useful tips and advice including:
- Refrigerated display cabinets: Buy high-efficiency cabinets which are listed under the Enhanced Capital Allowance (ECA) scheme – these can use 30% less energy than a non-listed cabinet.
- Cold rooms: Open doors can cost you £6 per hour for freezers – use an air-tight store with good door management, lighting and defrost control.
- Chillers: Use a chiller engineered for UK temperatures, with good part-load
capacity and efficiency and you could save as much as £25,000 a year for a typical 800kW process chiller. - Heat recovery: Recovering the heat emitted by refrigeration equipment can help to reduce boiler energy consumption by up to 30% – fit your new refrigeration system with an energy saving ‘desuperheater’.
Richard Rugg, Director of Delivery Services at the Carbon Trust, comments:
“Any business seeking to cut its costs should be looking at its energy bills, and for many companies refrigeration accounts for a large part of those energy costs. Savings of up to 20% are possible with simple, no and low cost steps. If your business uses refrigeration, it’s an opportunity that’s too good to miss.”
For more information, go to: www.carbontrust.co.uk/expertinenergy