Page 30 - Climate Control News Magazine April 2019
P. 30

Chiller Feature
A total of $16 million up for grabs to save energy
MANUFACTURERS CAN ACCESS $16 mil- lion in funding as part of the NSW government’s Energy Saver Program.
Applicants can secure up to $120,000 per site to undertake energy efficiency projects.
Businesses that have implemented similar projects have found savings can run to over $100,000 a year, while reducing downtime and maintenance costs.
Funding can be used to upgrade energy moni- toring systems, replace or retrofit old, inefficient equipment, install new energy efficient equip- ment and improve manufacturing processes.
The first round of funding opened on Febru- ary 22, 2019 and will continue through to June 30, 2019.
More information on the program is available
at www.energysaver.nsw.gov.au/ manufacturing
The Energy Saver program also provides an additional $3.5 million for energy inten- sive manufacturing business- es to improve the way they manage energy.
These manufacturers can receive
free energy management system benchmarking to understand their performance against indus- try standards.
Participating businesses can then receive up to $30,000 of support and coaching from indus- try experts.
For details contact Colleen Kurdian at 02 8837 6028.
Program participants have saved over $100,000 a a year.
Technology to transform HVACR industry
FROM LEFT: EPEE director general, Andrea Voigt. RA executive director, Greg Picker.
CHILLERS AND AIR conditioners are well-es- tablished technologies. But they are about to un- dergo significant change.
A transformation is emerging because of envi- ronmental requirements and technological ca- pacity that will have a profound influence in the design, performance, use and maintenance of this equipment over the coming decades, ac- cording to Future: Air.
A series of seminars will be held during the month of May in Brisbane, Sydney and Mel- bourne, to help businesses who own, manage or repair chillers and large air conditioning equip- ment to prepare for these changes.
Future:Air is a partnership between the Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Equipment Manufacturing Association (AREMA) and the Air Conditioning Mechanical Contractors Asso- ciation (AMCA).
Seminars will be presented by international
and Australian speakers who are recognised globally as thought leaders and authorities in the air conditioning and refrigeration sectors.
Future: Air said that an international survey of organisations representing chiller manufactur- ers, identified over 20 “industry disrupters”. These disrupters are projected to dramatically transform the design, installation, usability and service of equipment.
In the survey, there was broad agreement that the need to respond to climate change and ener- gy scarcity in a resource-constrained world would drive a whole suite of these changes.
“THE SEMINARS WILL REVEAL REGULATORY CHANGES TO IMPACT THE DESIGN, PURCHASE AND USE OF CHILLERS AND LARGE AIR CONDITIONING EQUIPMENT.”
This includes the need to ensure both dramat- ically increased energy efficiency both theoreti- cally and in installed equipment, as well as the need to continue the transition to refrigerants with lower environmental impact.
It is expected that many of these new refriger- ants will be flammable or otherwise be more challenging to work with than those of previous generations.
These are not the only changes identified on the horizon. Along with demographic and soci- etal changes it is expected there will also be a shift towards the use of artificial intelligence, further uptake of wireless technologies and the Internet of Things.
Already the industry is seeing the first chang- es in equipment to take advantage of these op- portunities.
In addition to the latest industry trends, Future:Air seminars will reveal the current and expected regulatory changes that will impact the design, purchase and use of chillers and large air-conditioning equipment in the near future.
Speakers include Steve Yurek, CEO and pres- ident of the Air conditioning, Heating and Re- frigeration Institute (AHRI), Andrea Voigt, di- rector general of the European Partnership for Energy and the Environment (EPEE), and Greg Picker, executive director of both Refrigerants Australia and the Airconditioning and Refrig- eration Equipment Manufacturers of Australia (AREMA).
The first event will be held at Customs House, Brisbane on Monday, May 20. The Sydney event will be held at Rydges on Tuesday, May 21 and at the Novotel Parramatta on Wednesday, May 22.
CQ Melbourne will host the next event on Thursday, May 23 and the Box Hill Institute will host the final Melbourne event on Friday, May 24, 2019.
Book at https://futureair.ac/book-online/
CLIMATECONTROLNEWS.COM.AU
30


































































































   28   29   30   31   32