EPA Recognizes Stop amp Shop and Giant Food Only Supermarkets Receiving

EPA Recognizes Stop Shop and Giant Food Only Supermarkets Receiving ENERGY STAR Leaders Recognition Forbes.com Home Business Tech Markets Entrepreneurs Leadership Personal Finance ForbesLife Lists Opinions Video Blogs E mail Newsletters People Tracker Portfolio Tracker Special Reports Commerce Energy Health Care Logistics Manufacturing Media Services Technology Wall Street Washington CIO Network Enterprise Tech Infoimaging Digital Infrastructure Internet Personal Tech Sciences Security Wireless Bonds Commodities Currencies Economy Emerging Markets Equities Options Finance Human Resources Law E mail E Mail Newsletters My Yahoo RSS PR Newswire Press Release EPA Recognizes Stop Shop and Giant Food Only Supermarkets Receiving ENERGY STAR Leaders Recognition . . PM ET QUINCY Mass. Feb. PRNewswire The Stop Shop Supermarket Company LLC which includes Stop Shop stores in New England New York and New Jersey and Giant Food stores in Maryland Virginia Delaware and the District of Colum! bia is now recognized as an ENERGY STAR Leader. Stop Shop is the only company in New England to earn the Leaders recognition in and Stop Shop and Giant are the only supermarket chain in the country earning this recognition. Stop Shop is leading the charge to improve energy efficiency across the region said Robert Varney regional administrator for EPA New England. Better energy efficiency is good for the environment and good for a company s bottom line. We hope other companies in New England will follow this terrific example. Based in Quincy Mass. the supermarket chain is one of organizations across the nation to receive the award this year in recognition of improvements to building energy performance. Notably Stop Shop and Giant have a rating of out of possible across a portfolio of buildings. ENERGY STAR Leaders are an elite group of organizations that manage energy strategically across an entire portfolio of buildings using EPA s standardized measurement tool for tracking! building energy use. These select organizations are recognized by the agency for improving the energy performance of their portfolio by ten percent or more. The highest Leaders recognition identifies those organizations with portfolios that perform in the top percent of energy efficiency nationwide based upon the average of the buildings in the portfolio. Stop Shop is receiving recognition for the superior energy performance of this group of supermarkets. In August EPA also awarded Stop Shop an ENERGY STAR label for its Southbury Conn. store recognizing the building s superior energy performance. Energy efficiency measures at this location included skylights and natural lighting in stores high efficiency T lighting refrigeration systems with variable speed compressors and low energy glass doors occupancy sensors and reflective insulation roofing. In addition to leadership on energy efficiency in store operations Stop Shop has joined EPA s SmartWay Transport Partnership a voluntary collaboration between EPA and the freight industry to increase! energy efficiency while significantly reducing greenhouse gases and air pollution. Stop Shop is working to improve the fuel efficiency of its fleet with measures such as automatic engine shutdowns to reduce idling cab roof fairings reduced cab trailer gap to reduce wind resistance advanced lubricants to reduce drive train friction losses and longer trailers to carry more product in one trip. Stop Shop also trains drivers in ways to shift efficiently and avoid idling and is using on board computer data to give their truck drivers feedback on their fuel efficiency. Stop Shop s commitment to the trucking side of its operations is another great example of what companies looking to improve their environmental performance should do. We are deeply committed to finding energy conservation and energy efficiency solutions stated Jose Alvarez Stop Shop and Giant Food president and CEO. With Stop Shop and Giant stores covering more than million square feet and trucks in our Stop Shop ! fleet it is of utmost importance that we constantly work to improve our energy performance. We believe this is the right thing to do not only because these measures help us leave a lasting legacy a healthy planet for our children and grandchildren but they also help our customers today. Our energy conservation and energy efficiency programs help lower our operating costs and in turn we pass these savings on to customers keeping our prices low. Commercial buildings account for almost percent of our nation s greenhouse gas emissions. Building owners earn the ENERGY STAR by scoring in the top percent on EPA s energy performance rating system which calculates scores based on actual energy use. With interest in energy efficiency growing ENERGY STAR offers easy to use tools and guidelines that can help building owners and managers in the U.S. realize significant energy and dollar savings. EPA introduced ENERGY STAR in as a voluntary market based partnership to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through energy efficiency. Today the ENERGY STAR label can! be found on more than different kinds of products new homes and commercial and industrial buildings. Products and buildings that have earned the ENERGY STAR designation prevent greenhouse gas emissions by meeting strict energy efficiency specifications set by the government. In Americans with the help of ENERGY STAR saved about billion on their energy bills while reducing the greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to those of million vehicles. More information ENERGY STAR energystar.gov SmartWay Transport Partnership epa.gov smartway Energy and New England s environment epa.gov ne eco energy About Stop Shop and Giant Food The Stop Shop Supermarket Company based in Quincy Massachusetts and its sister company Giant Food of Landover MD employ more than associates and operate stores throughout Massachusetts Connecticut Rhode Island New Hampshire Maine New York New Jersey Virginia Maryland Delaware and the District of Columbia. SOURCE The Stop Shop Supermarket Company Copyright PR! 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