ENERGY SAVING EQUIPMENT Choosing wisely
Merchandising refrigerators could be consuming a lot less energy and contributing to brand reputation while doing so. The right choices of technologies for energy saving in cooling can achieve significant results such as 43% drop in energy consumption as related by Marino Bassi, key account senior advisor at Nidec Global Appliance, and Tatiana Valencia Montero, corporate sustainability consultant at Nidec Global Appliance.
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erchandiser refrigerators are all over the world, helping to sell beverages, food, ice cream and other items, in places that go from small convenience stores to clubs and hotels. These equipment need to deliver good performance and reliability, to protect the valuable cargo they bear. But most of them could also be consuming a lot less energy than they currently are, which would save natural resources and avoid carbon emissions in addition to saving money with electricity bills. Net zero greenhouse gas emissions, carbon footprint reduction, climate change and sustainability are hot topics these days and have a strong connection with brand reputation, an important pillar for the food and beverage business.
Our experience within the 50 years of tradition in refrigeration held by the Embraco brand, which is now part of
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Nidec Global Appliance, allows us to affirm that commercial refrigeration manufacturers and end users will have only benefit from investing in energy efficiency. And the roadmap toward the technologies to improve energy consumption indicators is already outlined: a combination of variable speed (also known as VCC, variable capacity compressor) and R290 (propane) natural refrigerant.
Recently, this powerful combination was used in a case study developed in partnership with Epta, multinational Group specialised in commercial refrigeration for retailers and a long time customer of Embraco, involving an open front cooler for an energy drinks brand. The results show that from the 2007 model of the brand’s open front cooler to the 2021 model, the energy consumption of this refrigeration equipment dropped 43%.
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