Tag: Accelerate America

  • Tips For Obtaining Utility Incentives

    First published in Accelerate America Magazine June 2015 Here’s some advice for supermarkets on how to go about seeking incentive funding from utilities for natural-refrigerant projects. Accelerate America: Do you expect that utilities  around the U.S. will provide incentives for various supermarket systems that employ natural refrigerants? Keilly Witman: Yes, we’’ll see this happen over the…

  • Clearing the Cost Hurdle (part 2)

    First published in Accelerate America Magazine April 2015 On January 8th of this year in Berkeley, CA, Hillphoenix, Emerson Climate Technologies, and AHT Cooling Systems USA brought together supermarket refrigeration executives and representatives from the nation’s major utilities to discuss ways that utilities could help boost demand for energy-efficient natural refrigerant equipment. After discussing energy…

  • Clearing the Cost Hurdle (part 1)

    First published in Accelerate America Magazine March 2015  Those who look to natural refrigerants as the ultimate solution to the cycle of never-ending refrigerant phaseouts have been discussing for several years the hurdles that need to be overcome to accelerate their adoption in the U.S. Above all, the biggest hurdle is cost. As is usual…

  • Opportunity in a Snap

    First published in Accelerate America Magazine November 2014 Those who pay attention to the goings-on at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have probably noticed the recent proposal by the Significant New Alternatives Policy (SNAP) program to make it illegal to use certain HFC (hydrofluorocarbon) refrigerants that are potent global warming gases in new commercial refrigeration…