Glasgow, Scotland: Star Refrigeration has a free energy consumption benchmarking app that allows companies to compare sites’ energy performance against industry ‘best practice’.
The app allows users to benchmark coldstore energy performance against best practice in order to gain an insight into the potential for reduction in energy costs and carbon emissions. This is a key first step in the industry’s transition to net zero, Star says.
Rob Lamb, group sales and marketing director, Star Refrigeration, said: “The app offers a quick and simple way to benchmark a cold store’s energy performance against current best practice and consequently allows businesses to act upon that knowledge and take the necessary steps to cut running costs, along with reducing their carbon footprint”.
In the app users are required to input refrigeration plant details such as energy consumption, the volume of the site and the option to enter the price paid per unit of electricity. The calculator then shows how a plant compares against other sites across the UK and Europe and what sort of energy, CO2 emission and cost savings are possible by improving the energy efficiency of the site.
Coldstore owners and operators will compare their energy consumption against the UK’s 1994 and 2019 best practice benchmark along with the European standard which represents the averages from approximately 300 European sites in 2013.
The current UK industry best practice guidelines were released from research carried out by Dr Andy Pearson, Star Refrigeration’s Group managing director. Updated guidelines were long overdue as the previous UK guidelines were over 20 years old.
For the research, Pearson collated energy performance figures of modern installations in the UK which were carried out by Star Refrigeration. The research revealed that the energy consumption of a modern, well maintained temperature controlled storage facility can now be less than 30% of the generally accepted figure from 25 years ago.
The app is free and available for download at:
iOS: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/sec-calculator/id1571289919
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.starref.sec
