Craft Brewery Industrial Heat Pump Screening Tool

In 2022, California's craft beer industry, comprising 957 breweries and producing 3.55 million barrels of beer, consumed 60 GWh of electricity and five million therms of natural gas. Industrial heat pumps (IHPs) could significantly reduce energy consumption, costs, and greenhouse gas emissions in brewing, but adoption faces challenges, including limited awareness, long payback periods, increased operating costs, and insufficient program support. This project developed a screening tool tailored to craft breweries to identify viable IHP retrofit opportunities. By focusing on the unique heating and cooling needs of breweries, the tool aims to motivate brewery owners, operators, and developers to explore IHP adoption, with an emphasis on collecting data to better understand energy use. The tool targets small independent brewers, as defined by the Brewers Association, and is designed for use by both large and small craft breweries.