Post by account_disabled on Mar 16, 2024 4:09:51 GMT
Food Lion, Harveys and Reid’s have cut their energy consumption by more than percent since or . trillion BTUs, winning the grocery stores their th consecutive Energy Star award, according to parent company Delhaize America, the US division of the international retailer Delhaize Group.
The supermarket group says the three retailers have received the Energy Star partner of the year sustained excellence award for their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve energy efficiency.
An Energy Star spokesperson says the CG Leads full list of winners will be posted online on March . Winners are selected from some , organizations that participate in the Energy Star program.
In , the three supermarket chains topped their energy-reduction levels by eliminating billion BTUs, up from . billion BTUs the year earlier. These energy reductions in saved more than $. million, up from $. million in , and reduced carbon emissions by million pounds, Delhaize America says.
Food Lion, Harveys and Reid’s also added Energy Star-certified stores in , bringing their total number to , or percent of the entire chain of stores. Food Lion, based in Salisbury, N.C., operates more than , supermarkets. Harveys operates stores in Georgia, Florida and South Carolina. Reid’s operates stores in South Carolina.
The grocery stores were recognized in last year’s annual Energy Star awards for expanding a pilot program to put glass doors on medium-temperature cases — a measure found to cut a stores overall energy bills by percent without hurting sales — by tripling capital investment in to more than $ million and enclosing cases at another stores.
Sears, Lowe’s, utility Xcel Energy and LG Electronics also took home top honors in the the awards. Sears won for achievements that included increasing the amount of Energy Star-qualified decorative lighting products, power tools and washing machines it sells and reducing company-wide energy consumption by . kBtu per square foot, representing a .-percent improvement in energy efficiency in .
The supermarket group says the three retailers have received the Energy Star partner of the year sustained excellence award for their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve energy efficiency.
An Energy Star spokesperson says the CG Leads full list of winners will be posted online on March . Winners are selected from some , organizations that participate in the Energy Star program.
In , the three supermarket chains topped their energy-reduction levels by eliminating billion BTUs, up from . billion BTUs the year earlier. These energy reductions in saved more than $. million, up from $. million in , and reduced carbon emissions by million pounds, Delhaize America says.
Food Lion, Harveys and Reid’s also added Energy Star-certified stores in , bringing their total number to , or percent of the entire chain of stores. Food Lion, based in Salisbury, N.C., operates more than , supermarkets. Harveys operates stores in Georgia, Florida and South Carolina. Reid’s operates stores in South Carolina.
The grocery stores were recognized in last year’s annual Energy Star awards for expanding a pilot program to put glass doors on medium-temperature cases — a measure found to cut a stores overall energy bills by percent without hurting sales — by tripling capital investment in to more than $ million and enclosing cases at another stores.
Sears, Lowe’s, utility Xcel Energy and LG Electronics also took home top honors in the the awards. Sears won for achievements that included increasing the amount of Energy Star-qualified decorative lighting products, power tools and washing machines it sells and reducing company-wide energy consumption by . kBtu per square foot, representing a .-percent improvement in energy efficiency in .
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