Upgraded kitchen appliances
Use our guidance next time you purchase energy efficient kitchen equipment
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Overview
New kitchen appliance purchasing guidance
Refrigeration
Inefficient old fridges and freezers can cost schools over £1,000 per year to run per appliance. A modern fridge or freezer can cost as little as £50 to run so the payback on replacement appliances can be less than a year.
Refrigeration
Inefficient old fridges and freezers can cost schools over £1,000 per year to run per appliance. A modern fridge or freezer can cost as little as £50 to run so the payback on replacement appliances can be less than a year.
- A larger fridge/freezer can be more efficient than two smaller ones
- Make sure the fridge/freezer is the most efficient possible and meets, or exceeds, the energy performance benchmarks
- Double-door units are in general more efficient than single-door
Cooking appliances
- Specify smaller ovens and a choice of oven sizes to increase operational flexibility and reduce energy use
- Purchase ovens with the highest food energy efficiency and lowest idle rate e.g. Energy Star
- Specify cookers with the shortest warm-up times
Extraction units
- Consider vertical stacking of ovens to reduce the area of the extraction hood
- Ensure that the minimum air flow required for plume extraction from the cooking equipment is calculated to avoid over-specification
- Specify high efficiency fans types and fan motors
- Install variable speed drives on the fan motors so that system power can be varied to minimise energy use
Dishwashers
- Purchase the most energy efficient equipment (in kWh/100 dishes)
- Consider models with heat recovery from hot sanitation
- Purchase water-efficient dishwashers as these tend to be the most energy-efficient
- Where centrally-generated hot water is available, provide hot feed to the dishwasher as this can reduce running costs
- Where local hot water generation exists, it may enable heat recovery from refrigeration.