London, UK: The Transport, Industrial and Commercial Refrigeration project has launched a website with news and background information about the cold chain.
The project is led by London South Bank University with partners Carbon Limiting Technologies, the Carbon Trust, Carbon 3 IT, the Centre for Sustainable Cooling at the University of Birmingham, the Institute of Refrigeration, and Star Technical Solutions.
The project is “an investigation into real energy use and greenhouse gas emissions from the transport, industrial and commercial refrigeration sectors in the UK. “Our vision is to create a comprehensive data driven and whole systems approach to support decarbonisation strategy and policy within the sector,” the website says.
“It will identify innovation levers to facilitate sector-wide decarbonisation and achieve net zero. It will provide roadmaps and strategies for end users based on a comprehensive data-driven and whole systems evidence base. These outputs will be used to drive forward sector decarbonisation strategies and policies,” the website says.
There are also details of how business can get involved in contributing to the research at an early stage and a library to which resources for end users in each of the specific business sectors will be added.
The project, which started in December 2022, is investigating energy use and greenhouse gas emissions from the transport, industrial and commercial refrigeration sectors in the UK.
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy is supporting this research to identify trends, emissions and innovation potential of decarbonising industrial and commercial refrigeration, with funding through the Net Zero Innovation Portfolio.
