Krack Corp. announced that it has sold the assets of its Krack industrial refrigeration business to SGS Refrigeration Inc. Terms of the sale were not disclosed. Krack retains ownership of its commercial business.

Installations of natural gas generator sets (gensets) are expected to grow from 2013 to 2018 to a total of 60 gigawatts of capacity, becoming a nearly $10 billion market by 2018, according to a new report from Pike Research, a part of Navigant’s Energy Practice.

Registration is now open for the free ASHRAE webcast, “Assessing Building Energy Performance—From Principles to Practice,” scheduled for April 18 from 1 to 4 p.m. EDT. 

Shipments of central air conditioners, air-source heat pumps, gas warm air furnaces, residential storage water heaters, and commercial storage water heaters in the United States all showed double-digit increases in January, according to the latest statistics released by the Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI).

A new Healthy Living Market opening today in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., features a Hillphoenix Second Nature® refrigeration system that runs on the natural refrigerant CO2 and food-grade glycol. 

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts that average regular gasoline prices will remain about the same for the next several months, with the annual average for 2013 decreasing slightly compared to 2012.

Nordyne announced today that it will be gradually relocating its split system and furnace manufacturing lines to a new manufacturing facility in Saltillo, Mexico. Packaged systems and select high-efficiency split systems will continue to be manufactured in the company’s Dyersburg, Tenn., plant.

QwikProducts™ by Mainstream Engineering has announced the launch of QwikSEER+WattSaver™, a new electronic control designed to reduce the energy consumption of existing air conditioners and heat pumps.

The U.S Department of Energy (DOE) held two public meetings this week to discuss rulemakings involving residential boilers. The first discussed a rulemaking to revise the residential boiler/furnace efficiency test procedures; the second discussed a possible rulemaking on efficiency standards for residential boilers.

In cities and regions where local utilities and governments allow building owners to monetize the value of peak load shifting, energy storage technologies are likely to spread rapidly, according to a new report from Pike Research, a part of Navigant’s Energy Practice.