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GreenChill Store Certification Criteria
The following document summarizes the criteria required for achieving both Gold- and Silver-Level
Certification. Please see the GreenChill Store Certification Program Guidance for more information on each
of these criteria.
Gold-Level Store Certification: To qualify for GreenChill's Gold-Level Store Certification, a store must
meet the requirements under either A or B:
A. HFC-Based Refrigeration Systems
• The store must only use refrigerants with zero ozone-depleting potential;
• The store must only use refrigerants that have been found acceptable by EPA's Significant New
Alternatives Policy Program (SNAP) for use in retail food refrigeration end-uses;
• The store must achieve an average HFC refrigerant charge equal to or less than 1.25 Ibs. of
refrigerant per 1000 BTU/hr. total evaporator cooling load;
• The store must achieve a store-wide annual refrigerant emissions rate of 15% or less; and
• All newly constructed stores must be leak tested at installation according to the standards in
GreenChill's Installation Leak Tightness Testing Guidelines
B. Refrigeration Systems using Low-GWP Refrigerants
• The store must only use refrigerants with zero ozone-depleting potential;
• The store must only use refrigerants that have been found acceptable by EPA's Significant New
Alternatives Policy Program (SNAP) for use in retail food refrigeration end-uses; and
• All refrigerants used in the store must have global warming potentials (GWP) lower than 150.
Silver-Level Store Certification: To qualify for GreenChill's Silver-Level Store Certification, a store
must meet the following requirements:
• The store must only use refrigerants with zero ozone-depleting potential;
• The store must only use refrigerants that have been found acceptable by EPA's Significant New
Alternatives Policy Program (SNAP) for use in retail food refrigeration end-uses;
• The store must achieve an average HFC refrigerant charge equal to or less than 1.75 Ibs of refrigerant
per 1000 BTU/hr. total evaporator cooling load; and
• The store must achieve a store-wide annual refrigerant emissions rate of 15% or less.
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