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If you spend more than about $1 million a year on energy, your potential savings are big enough to make this worth your time.

If you operate more than about 20 stores, your energy-management challenges are complex enough that you’ll welcome these ideas, specifically aimed at multisite retailers.

A large grocery and dry goods retailer currently maintains over 1,000 locations in over 40 states and is challenged to track 20,000+ refrigerant containing systems. Each year they add at least 10 new locations and re-fit 50 or more existing sites with updated systems for a new look.

This retailer is also an industry leader in addressing environmental sustainability challenges through a variety of programs, such as its new comprehensive recycling and carbon offset conservation initiatives. Their commitment to environmental sustainability is especially clear throughout its operations in the United States, where it must comply with tough regulations that govern everything from large refrigeration systems to small drinking fountains.

Organizations operating refrigeration and air-conditioning systems often are serviced by outside maintenance companies and/or internal service technicians. It was difficult to know with confidence if EPA requirement were being met.

  • Comply with evolving EPA section 608 refrigerant record keeping laws
  • Track and maintain a database of multiple thousands of sites and systems
  • Enable home office to track compliance at 1,000 U.S. locations
  • Manage over 200 individual technicians
  • Find operational time/cost savings

Solutions Summary:

Refrigerants & Fugitive Emissions Manager was designed from the ground up to make managing refrigerants simple and easy. Additionally there are environmental risks and governmental tracking requirements any time refrigerants are used.

How can organizations with hundreds or thousands of systems manage legal compliance or reduce costs when they have sites and systems in so many locations?

Refrigerant Management Delivers:

  • Refrigerant Leak Tracking
  • Refrigerant Gas Inventory Management
  • EPA Leak Rate Calculations
  • U.S. Clean Air Act Compliance
  • Refrigerant Leak Tracking by System

Cost Benefits of Effective Refrigerant Management: Refrigerant leaks are one the highest maintenance expenses for organizations using or maintaining gas. In addition to compliance, management of refrigerant is important from a cost perspective.

A typical 100-store supermarket chain operates with 400,000 lbs. of refrigerant within their refrigeration and air conditioning systems. Assuming an average cost of $6 per pound, this equates to a $2.4 million asset. An average annual leak rate of 25% (many chains are higher) results in $720,000 of refrigerant being replaced each year. Reducing the leak rate by only 5% saves $240,000 per year.

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