Prospects of Powering a Refrigerated Warehouse With Renewable Energy

Although net zero energy buildings have been successfully demonstrated at residential and small to moderate commercial building scales, they have not been demonstrated for more energy-intensive operations such as food production or large refrigerated storage facilities. The reason is simple: residential and low-rise commercial buildings have the benefit of considerably lower energy use intensity (i.e., annual electric energy required per unit area of the building) when compared to a refrigerated facility.