The  GreenChill Advanced
Refrigeration  Partnership
What is EPA's GreenChill Advanced
Refrigeration Partnership?
GreenChill is an EPA cooperative alliance with the supermarket
industry and other stakeholders to promote advanced
technologies, strategies, and practices that reduce refrigerant
charges and emissions of ozone-depleting substances and
greenhouse gases.
The 2010 phaseout of certain hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs),
especially HCFC-22, marks a major step in the transition to
alternative refrigerants and an opportunity to use improved
technologies for supermarkets. Because many alternative
refrigerants are greenhouse gases (e.g., hydrofluorocarbons -
MFCs), it is important during this transition to consider reducing
emissions of all refrigerants, not just ozone-depleting substances.

What are the GreenChill Partnership Goals?
The goals of the GreenChill Partnership are to provide
supermarkets and organizations supporting this  industry with
information and assistance to:
  • Transition to non-ozone-depleting refrigerants;
  • Reduce refrigerant charges;
  • Reduce both ozone-depleting and greenhouse gas refrigerant
   emissions; and
  • Promote supermarkets' adoption of advanced refrigeration
   technologies, strategies, and practices.

Who can Join GreenChill?
GreenChill is a partnership with food retailers, including
supermarkets, grocery stores, supercenters, and wholesale clubs.
Food retailers sign a Partnership Agreement with EPA and agree
to work toward attaining the GreenChill goals.
         REENCHIL
       GreenChill Partners
          Food Retailers
 ACME Markets
   Albertsons
Intermountain West
 Albertsons/Lucky
Southern California
 Bel Air Markets
     Bigg's
     Bloom
  Bottom Dollar
   Cub Foods
Farm Fresh Food &
   Pharmacy
   Food Lion
  Food Source
  Fresh & Easy
   Giant Eagle
   Hannaford
  Harris Teeter
    Harvey's
  Hornbacher's
    Jewel/Osco
    King Kullen
      King's
      Mr.Z's
   Nob Hill Foods
   Organic Valley
   Price Chopper
      Publix
      Raley's
      Reid's
 Shaw's/Star Markets
 Shop 'n Save, St. Louis
  Shoppers Food &
     Pharmacy
Sprouts Farmers Market
   Supervalu Inc.
     Sweetbay
   Weis Markets
    Whole Foods
   Wild by Nature
   Advanced Refrigeration Technology
          Manufacturers
   Hill Phoenix        Kysor Warren
   Hussmann
     Zero Zone
       Chemical Manufacturers
    Arkema          Honeywell
  Dow Chemical        Ineos Fluor
             DuPont

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Benefits of the GreenChill
Partnership

GreenChill partners in the food retail
business have refrigerant emissions
rates nearly 50% lower than the EPA-
estimated industry average. These
partners are responsible for a reduction
in greenhouse gas emissions from
refrigerants totaling 2.5 million metric
tons of carbon dioxide - equivalent to
the annual emissions of 500,000 cars.
In addition, the EPA estimates that
GreenChill's founding partners saved
almost $13 million in operating costs by
reducing refrigerant emissions.

If supermarkets nationwide reduced
emissions to the current GreenChill
partner average, they could generate
annual cost savings of $108 million
across the industry while preventing
the annual emission of 22 million metric
tons of carbon dioxide equivalent
and 240 ozone depletion potential
(OOP) tons. OOP tons are a measure
of the potency of ozone-depleting
substances.
For more information, visit our
website at
www.epa.gov/greenchill
Please contact:
Why Join the GreenChill Partnership?

The majority of the approximately 35,000 supermarkets in the U.S.
use HCFC-22, an ozone-depleting substance and greenhouse
gas, as their primary refrigerant. Further, supermarkets often have
high refrigerant leak rates. Leaks are harmful to the environment
and costly to supermarkets. However, ozone-friendly alternative
refrigerants and improved technology are available, and servicing
practices exist that reduce refrigerant leak rates and emissions.

In addition, under the current regulatory framework, a switch from
ozone-depleting to non-ozone-depleting refrigerants is a logical
consideration when remodeling or constructing a new store. While it
is legal to run installed equipment indefinitely,  HCFC-22 refrigerant
production for servicing that equipment will stop by 2020. The
GreenChill Partnership presents an opportunity to prepare for this
and other deadlines, prepare for future leak repair regulations, and
to be recognized for efforts above and beyond actions required
under the Clean Air Act.  Benefits of the GreenChill Partnership
include:

  • Environmental benefits. The Partnership helps the environment
   by  decreasing the impact of supermarket refrigeration systems
   on  the ozone layer and climate change.

  • Benchmarking. A benchmarking  system allows partners to
   evaluate their progress toward environmental goals in relation to
   their peers.

  • Recognition and awards. Awards are given by EPA to recognize
   outstanding achievements by partners.

  • Publicity, marketing,  and outreach. Partners have access to a
   variety of marketing materials to  highlight their participation in the
   GreenChill Partnership.

  • Assistance with environmental strategies and goals.  GreenChill
   assists Partners in developing and attaining corporate
   environmental stewardship and sustainability goals, with  tools
   such as best practice guidelines  and information on improved
   technology and servicing practices that help reduce refrigerant
   charges and leak rates.

  • Opportunities for information sharing among partners. GreenChill
   holds regular meetings to facilitate partner information sharing
   on  successful emissions reduction strategies and advances in
   refrigeration technology.

  • Research.  Partners have access to state-of-the-art EPA
   research, including a theoretical study on advanced refrigeration
   technologies and EPA/industry field tests on substitute
   refrigerants and advanced refrigeration technologies.

Keilly Witman at (202) 343-9742
witman.keilly@epa.gov

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