Air-conditioned Stores in France Must Keep their Doors Closed
Sud Ouest, a French media, reported that Agnès Pannier-Runacher, French minister of Energy Transition, recently announced that a decree will be issued with a view to preventing stores from leaving their doors open while using air conditioning. The minister describes such practices as wasteful and unacceptable because they raise energy consumption by 20%. Stores in several cities in France could be fined up to €750 (about US$ 770) if they leave their doors open while using air conditioning or heating.
Illuminated advertising will also be targeted by the government in a context of pan-European energy saving measures. Such advertising will be banned between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m. The bans will not apply to airports and railway stations.
Through municipal bylaws, French cities such as Bourg-enBresse, Lyon, Besançon, and Paris now ban open doors where stores operate air conditioning or heating, and other cities are expected to take similar action. France has experienced a series of sizzling heat waves this summer, and the government is promoting energy saving measures.
Chillventa to Connect HVAC&R Experts on Site in Nuremberg
Chillventa 2022 will take place live on site in Nuremberg, Germany, from October 11 to 13, 2022, when the international refrigeration, air conditioning, ventilation, and heat pump community will come together again to network in person, discover innovations, and discuss the latest trends and future developments. As usual, the event will kick off the day before the exhibition with the high-caliber Chillventa Congress, which will deliver answers to the issues impacting the industry.
Alongside the extensive product range from prestigious exhibitors and major industry players, which will include countless innovations and cover the entire spectrum of the industry, Chillventa 2022 will also offer an impressive and wide-ranging supporting program where knowledge-sharing, networking, and learning will take center-stage.
Key Topics
At Chillventa 2022, the exhibitors, Congress program, and forums will all provide answers to the questions affecting the various industry segments:
How can the energy performance of systems be improved?
How can refrigeration systems help facilitate the energy transition?
What’s the latest in the refrigerant sector?
What’s happening within the hybrid systems trend?
Other key topics at Chillventa 2022 will be the circular economy and the cold chain in the pharmaceutical segment.
Weather Turns up Heat on Building Services
The United Kingdom’ s record-breaking heatwave has sparked demand for better long-term strategies to improve temperature, humidity, and air quality control in buildings, according to the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA).
BESA said many building owners and managers were reluctant to invest in measures they believed would only have an impact during extreme temperature events on just a few days of the year.
However, the heatwave turned the spotlight on the wider economic implications of building performance, according to BESA, with surveys suggesting a significant number of home workers returned to their offices to take advantage of the air conditioning. Some employers claimed this had improved productivity and could lead to a reversal in the working from home trend.
Researchers at Stanford University in the United States found that peak growth occurs when a country’s annual average temperature is 13ºC and starts to decline above that. The UK’s annual average temperature is usually around 9ºC, but without concentrated efforts to limit climate change it is set to rise over the coming decade.
Graeme Fox, BESA’s head of technical, said, “Air conditioning is a key technology, but so are some of the other tools we have at our disposal such as mechanical ventilation with heat recovery, air filtration, and humidity control. We also need to improve our approach to the fabric of buildings so we can build in more passive mitigation measures – and planned maintenance will be key to ensuring equipment can continue to function properly whatever the weather conditions.”
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Post time: Oct-03-2022
