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Decarbonizing Grocery Stores
Grantor
• California Energy Commission (CEC)
Recipient
• Prospect Silicon Valley (ProspectSV)
Partners
• Whole Foods Market
• ARUP, SF Environment
• LBNL
Duration
• 2016–2020
• 4-year project
Project Highlights
• Project management
• Tech discovery
• Knowledge transfer
Funded by a California Energy Commission EPIC grant, ProspectSV was the prime contractor of the San Francisco Whole Foods Zero-Net Energy (ZNE) Project, or “MarketZero: Taking an existing grocery store to scalable near-ZNE”. The grant enabled us to upgrade of an existing grocery store to achieve net-zero or near net-zero energy utilization with a focus on aggressive and cost-effective energy efficiency. We conducted this project with the support of Whole Foods, Arup, San Francisco Department of the Environment, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The MarketZero project targeted one of the “final frontiers” in the goal towards a zero net energy buildings future: groceries and supermarkets. The project identified, evaluated, implemented, and measured a comprehensive suite of innovative lighting, HVAC, process, plug-load, and controls solutions at the existing store.
