Cooling as a Service: a revolution in industrial refrigeration

Cooling as a Service is increasingly popular in industrial refrigeration. By exchanging ownership for usership and transferring operational risks to the service supplier, companies can focus on their core business and at the same time profit from the latest...

What will it take for industrial cooling to meet the environmental challenge?

Industrial cooling systems are among the most significant contributors to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions due to their high energy consumption and the potential leakage of harmful refrigerants. To meet stringent environmental regulations and societal expectations,...

Sovereign reaffirms commitment to Cooling-as-a-Service with Energy Partners

Building on the successful partnership at its Kariega, Eastern Cape, Further Processing Facility, Sovereign has again entered into a Cooling-as-a-Service (CaaS) agreement with Energy Partners (EP) to meet growing production demands as efficiently and reliably as...

Growth, profit, sustainability: How Sovereign ticked all the boxes with one contract

'​​Welcome to Kariega, a picturesque town nestled in the Eastern Cape, where South Africa's third largest fully integrated poultry producer, Sovereign, recently found itself at a crossroads. Faced with escalating demand, the company’s value-adding facility urgently...

Fresh from farm to table: How Cooling-as-a-Service can solve Africa’s cold chain challenges

In the developed world, the average consumer may not be aware that the domestic refrigerator is only the final link in a long continuum that begins on the farm and ends on the table. These two end points are connected by a coordinated series of actions and...

Servitisation can unlock capital and build food production resilience in ‘interesting times’

Almost 60 years ago, on 6 June 1966, a young Robert F. Kennedy told an audience at the University of Cape Town, “There is a Chinese curse which says, ‘May he live in interesting times.’ Like it or not, we live in interesting times. They are times of danger and...

Energy Partners invests R360 million in Clover SA energy servitisation solution

South African dairy giant, Clover S.A., has unleashed the benefits of servitisation at its Queensburgh mega-factory, by means of a R360 million investment by energy solutions company, Energy Partners (EP).   As part of this industry-leading partnership, EP...

Outsourced cooling can help market navigate challenges

Refrigeration services provider Energy Partners (EP) Refrigeration GM Dawie Kriel stresses that constraints in the local market offer the company opportunities to provide innovative refrigeration and cooling solutions to help local companies mitigate loadshedding and...

Ageing refrigeration systems a significant challenge to SA businesses in 2023

In 2023, the pressure will continue to mount for local food producers, cold storage facilities, and a myriad of other businesses that depend on cooling systems in their daily operations. . Cooling, by far dominates operational costs in terms of energy consumption, an...