Reducing stores’ environmental impact
Reducing stores’ environmental impact
Thrifty Foods
Thrifty Foods has worked with BC Hydro since 2005 to implement a range of Power Smart projects across many of its stores. Measures that have improved energy efficiency and reduced electricity costs include:
- LED exterior store lighting, T8 and LED lighting in refrigerated cases and replacing 400 watt light fixtures with 250 watt HID lights,
- Pull-down covers to reduce cool air escaping from refrigerated areas when stores are closed. This reduces demand for power to cool the refrigerated areas and warm the surrounding non-refrigerated areas of the stores, and
- Heat recovery systems to transfer waste heat from the refrigeration system to warm other areas of the stores.
In 2008, when designing the Suter Brook Village store in Port Moody to be energy efficient from the ground up, Thrifty Foods became involved in BC Hydro’s New Construction Program. Through this collaboration, the store was built to include the energy conservation features mentioned above as well as fully integrated refrigeration and HVAC systems, energy efficient fans in the refrigerated cases, energy efficient lighting throughout the store and LED lighting wherever practical. Today, this store uses 15% to 30% less energy than a conventional Thrifty Foods store.
