Sustainable Cooling Adopters Network (SCAN)

Sustainable cooling technology manufacturers are not a cohesive community of enterprises. They tend to function in siloes of creativity, knowledge, and best practices. They are perceived as sub-standard cooling technology manufacturers whose’ solutions provide inadequate cooling, cannot leverage economies of scale available to large manufacturers and are usually costlier to implement in terms of first-costs. There is a perception of them as being providers without a wide service and maintenance network. They generally fall outside the purview of BEE’s Standards and Labelling Programs making comparison with conventional cooling technologies difficult.

Several of the problems above are largely the outcome of active manipulations of scientific and engineering data by the mainstream HVAC industry which stands to lose market share to new players if thermal comfort, life-cycle energy cost savings, and environmental considerations start to predominate in the users’ mindset. Thus, many of the problems can be addressed through directly correcting perceptions and combatting misinformation amongst large buyers and opinion-moulders. Through their procurement and purchasing practices, these prestigious cooling solutions customers lead the change and shape the terrain of the industry.

The proposed program will seek to correct the trust deficit towards manufacturers of sustainable cooling technologies. A standardization and labelling program will also lead to enhance credibility of their offerings. A low-cost and preferential financing mechanism addresses project risk-sharing issues based on energy performance contracting. This will enable this ‘sunrise’ sector to unleash it’s immense meaningful and dignified employment potential.