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North American Policies: US EPA GreenChill Partnership
GreenChill 17 is an EPA partnership with food retailers,
which encourages them to reduce refrigerant emissions
and decrease their impact on the ozone layer and climate
change. The Partnership works to help food retailers
transition to environmentally friendlier refrigerants,
lower their refrigerant charge sizes, eliminate leaks, adopt
green refrigeration technologies and environmental
best practices, through three main programs:
As a result of GreenChill's Partners' activities, the amount
of avoided HFC emissions has increased from 1.53
million metric tons of CO 2
eq (MMTCO 2
eq) in 2007 to
4.12 MMTCO 2
eq in 2011. The avoided emissions from
ozone depleting substances (ODS) and HFCs combined
increased from 2.99 MMTCO 2
eq in 2007 to 6.21
MMTCO 2
eq in 2011 19 .
• Corporate Emissions Reduction Program
• The Store Certification Program
• The Advanced Refrigeration Program
GreenChill Partners include food retailers, manufacturers
of advanced refrigeration systems, and manufacturers
of retrofit chemicals and secondary fluids. Several
participating retailers already use cascade refrigeration
systems with CO 2
, including CO 2
/NH 3
cascade systems,
or CO 2
as secondary refrigerant, and have been
rewarded for their efforts. At the 2012 Environmental
Achievement Awards by the GreenChill Partnership,
an all-natural refrigerant store in California, which
featured both an ammonia primary system, located
in an outdoor enclosure, that condensed CO 2
, as
well as propane self-contained merchandisers, was
honored with the prestigious ‘Best of the Best Award’.
Moreover, the USA Department of Energy has used this
same store to highlight its national 'Better Buildings
Challenge'- program, which was launched by President
Barack Obama in December 2011. The supermarket in
Carpinteria is expected to deliver 30% lower energy bills
as compared to a traditional store 18 .
Five years after its launch, the GreenChill Partnership
makes up over 20% of stores in the USA, representing
more than 8,000 supermarkets in all 50 states and
Washington, DC.
17 US EPA GreenChill Partnership, http://www.epa.gov/greenchill
18 US Department of Energy (2012), Better Buildings Challenge. Available
from: http://www4.eere.energy.gov/challenge/showcase/supervalu/
albertsons-carpinteria-remodel (Accessed: March 2013)
19 US EPA (2012), GreenChill Progress Report. Available from:
http://www.epa.gov/greenchill/downloads/GreenChill_
ProgressReport2011_2012-09-24.pdf (Accessed: December 2012)
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