Field Fresh Foods

Field Fresh Foods In-Depth Case Study

Project Overview

The Field Fresh Foods facility covers an area of ~3.5 acres containing about 70,550 square foot (SF) of refrigerated warehouse and approximately 10,000 SF of office/mechanical and maintenance area. The refrigerated warehouse areas are broken up into many smaller areas, each cooled by one or two small compressor/condenser units and multiple evaporator units. The evaporator fans vary in size from ¼ HP to ¾ HP each and the quantity of fans per evaporator unit varies from 2 to 5. These fans run continuously, even when the condenser unit is satisfied and shuts down.

Carlisle Energy worked with Edison to prepare a savings analysis and found that by retrofitting (25) evaporator coils at their facility with Carlisle Controllers and (98) EC Motors ranging from ¼ HP to ¾ HP. Field Fresh Foods will save approximately $496,443.00 in the next five years. Southern California Edison’s incentive of $37,194.00 for our Carlisle Controllers and EC Motors allowed this project to have an ROI of less than 14 months.

Project Breakdown

$130,616 – Project cost
$37,194 – Rebate or Incentive Paid to customer
$93,422.00 Net cost of Project
$7,441.55 – Monthly dollar savings at 13.9 cents per kWh
$89,298.60 – Annual dollar savings
$446,493 – 5yr dollar savings
651,264 – kWh’s REDUCED YEAR ONE
12.55 month Return on investment ROI

Project consisted of installation of
(98) EC Motors
(24) Carlisle ECM Controllers