Why Refrigerant Management is Essential
Locus Technologies provides refrigerant management advisory, training, and certification services to help organizations, and affected personnel, clearly understand their regulatory obligations. In addition, Locus experts provide insights into upcoming regulations, industry trends, resources, and planning steps to take.
Refrigerant management has never been more important, with many changes and challenges facing facility owners and managers, environmental managers, contractors and technicians.
- Refrigerants with HIGH GLOBAL WARMING POTENTIAL (GWP) are being restricted at the INTERNATIONAL and even at the US State level.
- The Montreal Protocol Kigali Amendments gained worldwide support for dramatic cuts.
- Worldwide production of the gases and their use in NEW and EXISTING SYSTEMS is being RATCHED DOWN with phase downs.
- Individual countries implement methods to achieve the treaty’s commitments.
- The US Clean Air Act, Section 608 was broadened to include HFCs (and although EPA had to rescind the leak repair piece, now being restored through the AIM Act provisions).
- The AIM Act is empowering EPA to regulate high‐GWP refrigerants under the Section 612 SNAP program and Section 608 leak repair requirements.
- State‐based regulations on high GWP refrigerants (far tougher than federal regulations) are being proposed and implemented. (See Washington & California)