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EPA’s GreenChill Program Recognizes Top Supermarket Industry Partners for
Outstanding Practices in Protecting the Climate and Ozone Layer
BALTIMORE – Today, Sept. 25, in a ceremony at the FMI – The Food Industry
Association’s Energy and Store Development Conference, the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency’s GreenChill Program recognized nine
supermarket and commercial refrigeration leaders – eight food retail
companies and one advanced refrigeration system manufacturer – for
exceptional achievements to reduce the impacts of commercial refrigeration
systems on the environment in 2023.
“Our GreenChill partners are setting a prime example of what it means to be
a corporate leader in sustainability,” said Paul Gunning, Director of
EPA’s Office of Atmospheric Protection. “We are proud of our GreenChill
partners and recognize their work, whose continued innovation is protecting
public health and the environment today and for generations to
come.”????
GreenChill Partners go above and beyond regulatory requirements and commit to
decreasing their impact on the environment by reducing refrigerant emissions.
In reporting year 2024, there were more than 13,500 supermarket stores in the
GreenChill Partnership, representing 30% of stores in the United States, and
over 900 GreenChill certified supermarket stores throughout the nation, a 10%
increase from 2023 reporting year. On average, GreenChill food retailers have
emissions rates approximately 11% lower than the industry average of 25%. 
The EPA thanks all participants in the Partnership and Store Certification
Programs for being industry leaders in environmentally friendly refrigeration
practices. 
This year, EPA is proud to recognize the following GreenChill Partner
companies:
Best Corporate Emissions Rate
City Market, Onion River Co-op (Burlington, Vermont)
Meijer (Grand Rapids, Michigan)
Most Improved Emissions Rate
BriarPatch Food Co-op (Auburn and Grass Valley, California)
Brookshire Grocery Company (Tyler, Texas)
Exceptional Goal Achievement
Hy-Vee (Sycamore, Illinois)
K-VA-T Food Stores/Food City (Abingdon, Virginia)
GreenChill’s Store Certification Program recognized stores for meeting
strict performance criteria including refrigeration systems with minimal
potential impacts on the ozone layer and climate system. This year’s
GreenChill Store Certification recognitions honor:
Store Leadership
Target (San Antonio, Texas) completed a remodel that utilized efficient
cooling technology to achieve an energy saving system in a warmer climate by
installing a transcritical carbon dioxide system and an adiabatic gas cooler.
Store Certification Excellence 
ALDI (Batavia, Illinois) earned recognition for leading its peers in
certifying more stores than any supermarket chain had previously, with all 611
stores reaching the highest Platinum-Level Certification.
Hillphoenix (Conyers, Georgia) achieved this recognition for the 12th
consecutive year as the commercial systems manufacturer with the most systems
installed in GreenChill Certified Stores in the last year. 
Store Recertification Excellence
ALDI – For the fifth consecutive year, ALDI achieved GreenChill Store
Certification for 164 locations across Alabama, California, Connecticut,
Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan,
Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin and West Virginia.
Target – For the fifth consecutive year, Target achieved GreenChill Store
Certification in 10 stores across California, Florida, New York, South
Carolina and Washington.
About GreenChill
GreenChill is a voluntary partnership program that works cooperatively with
the food retail industry to reduce refrigerant emissions and decrease their
impact on the environment. Leaky systems can come at a high price, requiring
retailers to pay for replacement refrigerant, system maintenance, and repairs.
Reducing leaks is also beneficial to the environment, as some refrigerants
deplete the stratospheric ozone layer and are potent greenhouse gases. In
addition to reducing leaks, GreenChill participants are leaders transitioning
to environmentally friendlier refrigerants and adopting advanced refrigeration
technologies.   
Since GreenChill launched in 2007, many food retailers have joined the
Corporate Emissions Reduction Program (the Partnership) with the number of
stores nearly tripling from 4,500 to over 13,500 today. The Partnership
represents more than one-third of the U.S. food retail industry. On average,
GreenChill Partners maintain corporate-wide emissions rates that are
approximately half the industry average. 
Participation in GreenChill’s Store Certification Program for food retailers
also continues to grow. In reporting year 2024 (July 1, 2023 – June 30,
2024), there were over 956 certified stores (798 Platinum, 74 Gold, and 84
Silver) across 44 states and the District of Columbia. Since it began in 2008,
the GreenChill Store Certification Program has issued more
than?5,200?annual certifications to over 1,400 individual stores. 
Learn more about GreenChill and today’s recognition recipients.
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