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Cold Chain Federation Benchmarking for cold
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he Cold Chain Federation has revealed new Energy Benchmarks for UK cold stores, along with a bespoke tool available to the
Federation’s members, to help businesses compare the energy usage of their cold stores with similar facilities around the UK. The new tool also indicates the fi nancial and carbon savings that businesses could secure through further energy effi ciency improvements at their cold storage sites. The Federation created the Benchmarks and new tool to meet an industry need for up-to-date, UK- specifi c, robust information on cold storage energy usage, using the annual ene rgy reported to the Cold Chain Federation from nearly 450 cold stores across the UK. The new benchmarking tool has been created
by the Cold Chain Federation working with Jacobs Engineering for the cold storage businesses which are signed up to the voluntary cold storage Climate Change Agreement (CCA) scheme. Cold Chain Federation executive director Tom Southall said: “Our industry is making strong progress on improving the energy effi ciency of cold stores, but there is plenty of scope for further
carbon reduction and signifi cant cost savings. Knowing how a site compares to the benchmark for similar facilities can give cold storage operators a stronger understanding of that site’s performance and progress, as well as a better sense of how much potential there is to improve energy effi ciency further. Our new Energy Benchmarking Tool is designed to support our members as they continue their journey towards the net zero cold chain of the future, saving energy costs while adhering to increasingly stringent regulatory requirements and meeting their customers’ low carbon needs.” Determining the operator’s cold storage SEC (Specifi c Energy Consumption, which calculates energy consumption against storage volume), the new benchmarks and accompanying dashboard assesses the site’s energy performance against a benchmark for its cohort group. The six cohorts are based on cold stores’ cooling volumes and whether they are used for majority chilled or frozen products. The new tool also shows the operator the site’s energy effi ciency progress between 2021 and 2022 in the context of their cohort’s progress over the same period; and calculates the cost and carbon savings
Bitzer invests in the use of ORC systems with its ac B
itzer has acquired Czech company BPOWER, which allows Bitzer to off er components and Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) systems
for generating power from waste heat, making an important contribution to decarbonisation and also enabling system integration. Effi cient use of waste heat in the industry can go a long way in helping
to make production more energy-effi cient, reduce carbon emissions and thus achieve climate targets. “We are delighted to welcome a new member,
BPOWER, to the Bitzer Group, which allows us to manufacture components and ORC systems as well as off er system integration,’ said Christian Wehrle, CEO of the Bitzer Group. ‘Thanks to
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