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Financially viable Green Cooling

A new energy-efficient and water-based cooling technology

July 2020

Financially viable Green Cooling

A new energy-efficient and water-based cooling technology

  • World Alliance Member
  • Featured Solution
  • Labelled Solution
Label Date July 17, 2020
From Canada
Maturity stage TRL 7 - Prototype testing in the real world

Today’s standard for cooling our buildings and facilities relies upon a century-old cooling technology called "Vapour Compression Cooling". It consists of a mechanical compressor that consumes significant amounts of electricity, which makes these systems costly to operate. It also uses synthetic refrigerants that tend to leak at a rate of 7-10% annually and are over 1000 times more detrimental in terms of global warming than CO2. Enersion has solved these problems by introducing a new cooling technology that uses low-grade heat (~60 C) instead of electricity as the energy input, and water as a refrigerant in a vacuum-sealed system. The Enersion technology uses 70% less electricity without any harmful refrigerants. By replacing the mechanical compression with thermal compression, this innovative system reaches a coefficient of performance exceeding 23 for electrical performance and 0.6 for thermal performance.

The Environmental Benefits

  • 70% reduction of electricity consumption compared to conventional solution - representing up to 830kg of CO2e per year for one ton of cooling
  • No harmful refrigerant or emissions
  • For a chiller in Toronto this amounts to 830 kg of CO2e per year for just one ton of coolin

The Financial Benefits

  • Rate of return between 2-3 years
  • Priced competitively compared to current technology
  • Reduces by 68% cooling costs compared to a conventional cooling tower
  • Reduces by 77% costs compared to a conventional chiller

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  • Headquarters
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Company Profile

Enersion Inc.

We provide cooling solutions powered by waste heat instead of electricity and using no harmful refrigerant

Headquarters Toronto, ON M5H 2N3, Canada
Type Startup or self-employed
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CanadaCleantech

We leverage provincial and territorial strengths to support the scale-up of Canadian cleantech.

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