LED LIGHTING & ENERGY EFFICIENCY
CHANGES FOR SUPERMARKET & GROCERY
Get the green light for refrigerated displays. Changes are coming to Australia & New Zealand.
MEPS - Mimimum Energy Performance Standards! This acronym represents a program made mandatory by state government legislation and regulations which give force to the relevant Australian Standards. To compare the MEPS ratings of registered refrigeration products go to
www.energyrating.gov.au/appsearch/comrefrig_srch.asp
The ANZ governments are jointly working on a strategic plan titled 'In From The Cold'. Recommendations from this plan include:
- All new low temperature display cases to be horizontal 'coffin' style with sliding lids by 2012
- No vertical up-right freezers that spill cold air into supermarket aisles when doors are opened
- All existing low temperature display cases to have doors retro-fitted by 2015
- New medium temp refrigerators to be closed style by 2015 (using solid, high performance glass doors and efficient air curtains to create zero air spillage).
- Existing medium temp refrigerators to have night blinds by 2015 or be replaced.
Replacing an open faced cooler with a similar sized (storage volume) glass door cabinet can result in energy savings of 65-75%.
U.K. grocery store 'Tesco' are among the early adopters to embrace the changes. They are using 'green consumerism' attitudes as an opportunity to re-educate the market and change bad habits. They use simple tactics such as attaching signs to the refrigerator doors..... "Enough to fill 3 hot air balloons. That's how much energy these doors save per year".
"Enough to run over 17,000 dishwasher cycles. That's how much energy these doors save per year".
Is your grocery store one of the early adopters to reduce our carbon footprint?
Food Strategy will be monitoring these changes for incorporation of leading edge refrigeration into our designs.
If you would like more information sent to you on this subject please contact us via:
http://www.foodstrategy.com.au/Pages/contact.aspx
Sources:
Craig Eustace, Technical Development Manager, (Australia New Zealand) Skope Industries Ltd;
Australian Government website: http://www.engergyrating.gov.au/
LIGHTING FOR REFRIGERATION and; GLASS DOOR INSERTS
Food Strategy visited the Maslen Australia factory to research award winning design in led lighting and glass door inserts.
More on this in our next newsletter. To see photos of our factory tour go to:
www.foodstrategy.com.au/pages/photos.aspx
