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FE&S Remarks on New National Walk-in Cooler and Freezer Requirements

Posted in Green Posted in Recommended Reading by Rick on 05/19 at 09:04 PM

Foodservice Equipment and Supplies Magazine released an article on May 13, 2008, covering the new national requirements for walk-in coolers and freezers to be implemented on January 1, 2009. This gives everyone about seven months to gear up for this change, but we’ve been working with the technologies specified in this requirement for years.

Dan Greenberg, Associate Director, E Source, writes about the new rulings required nationally and how only five states are currently working with similar requirements: California, Connecticut, Maryland, Oregon or Rhode Island. The bill was signed into law by President Bush in December 2007 and goes into effect on January 1, 2009.

According to Greenberg, ....” an analysis conducted for Pacific Gas & Electric in advance of California’s adoption of these standards, these features will add, on average, slightly less than $1,000 to the cost of a walk-in. The good news is that they’ll cut energy consumption by as much as 55 percent, yielding a simple payback to the user of 1.5 years for freezers and 3.4 years for refrigerators, on average.”

Our own Paul Nastari recently published two articles in FCSI’s The Consultant covering energy-efficiency and the technologies used in walk-in coolers and freezers. You can read both these articles to get a very good understanding of the technology and background behind conforming to these new regulations.

FCSI Quarter 4 2007 - R You Insulated Against the Next Phase (Out)? (PDF)

FCSI Quarter 1 2008 - Capturing Financial Savings through Energy Efficiency in Commercial Refrigeration (PDF)

Comment here or give Paul a call if you want to discuss how to handle these regulations.

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