Star Refrigeration's Ethos Aims for Energy Efficiency Gains
Star Refrigeration are showcasing their Ethos system, designed to optimise refrigeration plant performance through remote monitoring and data analysis. Star Refrigeration presents its Ethos system as a means to reduce energy consumption and improve refrigeration plant efficiency. Ethos offers plant owners the ability to reduce energy bills and gain a better understanding of their consumption patterns. This comes as businesses face increasing pressure to reduce both operational costs and their environmental impact. Energy efficiency in refrigeration is particularly important, given that it can account for a substantial portion of a company’s total electricity consumption, especially within the cold storage sector.
The easiest opportunity for ensuring low refrigeration plant energy consumption is through intelligent design at the planning and purchase phase. However, ensuring optimised performance of existing systems on an ongoing basis can be more challenging.
The Ethos system collects data and carries out specialised analysis to provide meaningful advice on improving efficiency, saving money and making better informed decisions. All of your plant data will be available to you, jargon-free, through an online dashboard so that you can constantly monitor which parts of the plant are operating efficiently and which areas could be improved. According to Star Refrigeration, savings of between 10 to 30 % are typically achievable, with little associated cost since large investment is not always necessary to implement the improvements.
As well as benefiting from a reduced electricity bill, your business will demonstrate sustainability by reducing its carbon footprint.
The announcement cites a case study where Tesco reportedly saved 4GWh of energy and reduced CO2 emissions by 835 tonnes using Ethos and StarCare maintenance. Star Refrigeration also state that their Ethos service and StarCare maintenance team helped Tesco achieve an average 10% energy saving across eight stores with return on investment in under 3 months.
Ethos remotely monitors refrigeration systems. This data-driven, bespoke approach to each plant can be deployed for both existing and new sites. Ethos is for both existing and new sites.
It seems the refrigeration game is evolving beyond mere cooling; it's now a complex dance of data, efficiency, and dashboards. Whether Ethos can consistently deliver on these savings remains to be seen – but the direction of travel is clear.
