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4 Do-It-Yourself Ways to Reduce Your Commercial Lighting Costs
We’ve previously examined a handful of DIY ways to reduce your commercial HVAC’s energy costs and today, we’ll do the same for lighting. If your commercial or industrial space doesn’t have refrigeration, then lighting will be your biggest energy-consuming mechanism.
Coolers/Freezers and Energy Efficiency 101: The Definitive Lighting Guide
The lighting solutions we will evaluate are: fluorescent, metal halide, high-pressure sodium, and LED. LED solutions may seem like costly investments upfront but their long-term cost of ownership and efficiency improvements over the other fixtures may actually surprise some people.
A Quick Crash Course in Suction P-Traps for HVACR
A suction p-trap is a discharge line trap that serves an important function both when the compressor is on and in the act of cooling, and when the compressor is off. It’s a critical piece for the equipment’s proper and efficient operation.
Looking for Energy Savings? Look In to Retrofitting Your Refrigeration
Many refrigeration systems in the food retail environment comprise older equipment, and many businesses are unable to absorb the cost of replacing the equipment with newer, more expensive components. But there are options out there to retrofit the systems.
Energy Efficiency Can Get Us Halfway to Our Energy Goals, says the ACEEE
The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) released a report that outlines the measures that could help drastically reduce energy waste by 50% by 2050. In particular, the report specifically explains how energy efficiency measures can get us there:
The ROI of Remote Refrigeration Monitoring for Multi-Site Operations
In today’s dynamic commercial landscape, businesses operating across multiple sites face an intricate web of challenges in managing their refrigeration systems. These multifaceted challenges unequivocally highlight the urgent need for a sophisticated, integrated, and proactive approach to refrigeration management.
Refrigeration Problem of the Week: Short Cycling in a Quick-Serve Restaurant’s Freezer
Short cycling is a common issue that often goes undetected because the system is running, and safe temperatures in the space are still maintained, but it’s excessively running much more than it needs to.
When is it Time to Consider a Refrigeration Monitoring and Control System?
Ask yourself these 10 questions to consider whether or not it’s time for your business to procure a refrigeration monitoring and control system. We’ll start with an easy one: Have you lost a compressor before?