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MOREOne of the most recent foodservice equipment categories added to the Energy Star program also may be the longest in development so far. Griddles were the first type of equipment for which Pacific Gas & Electric Co.’s Food Service Technology Center in San Ramon, Calif., developed a standardized test method more than 20 years ago,…
MOREPicture different jurisdictions and entities staking out their territories and trying to raise the bar, and you’ll picture what’s been happening in the commercial ice-machine business. Effective Jan. 1, 2010, you’ll have a base-line federal minimum standard for energy efficiency. Then apart from that, there’s been the California Energy Commission standard in that state. And…
MOREAn obvious energy target, one using a lot of fuel and losing a lot of it in the form of heat gain, warewashers had to be addressed sooner or later. In October 2007, just in time for the North American Association of Food Equipment Manufacturers� NAFEM Show in Atlanta that year, Energy Star finalized its…
MORETime flies, doesn’t it? It’s been 10 years already since the Environmental Protection Agency first announced its intent to launch Energy Star standards for foodservice equipment. That word came at the 1999 National Restaurant Association Show in Chicago. Two years later, the first set of foodservice Energy Star standards—for solid-door reach-in refrigerators and freezers—was unveiled…
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