Ice Makers/Energy Star Compliance

Hi Brendan, I believe from your description that the closed loop system meets the requirements; depending on where your project is located, the Energy Star certification would be required if in the US, but could be equivalent to the standards outside the US if a certified product wasn't available. Since this question was posted quite a while ago, please let us know if your project completed the review and what the outcome was.

Hi All - follow on question to this thread. I have a project sourcing an icemaker that does not appear to have and Energy Star certification but it does have an IHRA certification. https://www.ahrinet.org/certification/energy-star based on this website it appears there are equivalencies, but I don't know if that means we are fine moving forward with the spec. I haven't found anything on the USGBC website. Would love any feedback / lessons learned.  thanks!

Hi Yarden! Hmm...I have not seen this particular alternative come up, but it does seem to have much more official equivalency to offer that an ice maker that doesn't have any certification at all but has the same specs. I'd normally say that in the US, it's always been Energy STAR or nada, but I think this one is worth an email to LEED Coach for review. I checked the v5 language to see if they'd changed anything, but it still has the same "Energy STAR or equivalent" text and no additional details for now.  Please report back if you do reach out!

to my knowledge, this is the link that helps teams demonstrate equivalency with ES ice makers: https://www.energystar.gov/products/commercial_food_service_equipment/commercial_ice_makers/key_product_criteria The equipment type / ice harvest rate will dictate the limits of kwh/100 lbs of ice and gal/100 lbs of ice.  if the non-ES ice maker does not exceed these limits, then i would guess that equivalency is demonstrated.