North American Sustainable Refrigeration Council Releases Refrigerant Transition Hub

The North American Sustainable Refrigeration Council has published a free refrigerant transition hub to help navigate regulation changes implemented by the American Innovation and Manufacturing Act. Enacted in 2020, the AIM Act authorizes the Environmental Protection Agency to phase down hydrofluorocarbon refrigerant greenhouse gas emissions by 85% by 2036.

The federal phasedown of HFCs is expected to result in refrigerant shortages and significant price increases. In Europe, refrigerant prices increased by 900% following a similar HFC phasedown. Also, new legislation introduced in states such as California proposed to ban the sale and distribution of virgin HFC refrigerants as early as 2025, further driving the need for natural refrigerant solutions.

Learn more at https://nasrc.org/.