CFS Market Study

The previous GET Study ET25SWG0004 – CFS SME Interviews highlighted a subset of high-potential gas-fired CFS technologies currently lacking incentive coverage. This project will expand upon those findings through a second round of targeted SME interviews, this time engaging manufacturers, distributors, and institutional end-users, to gain forward-looking insights into equipment features, market readiness, retrofit viability, and barriers to adoption. While key equipment trends from the NAFEM conference were included in the initial report, this study will revisit those findings through direct engagement with manufacturers and distributors to assess real-world product availability, design updates, and integration potential into (EE) programs. This proposal is designed to be a flexible, milestone-based effort. At this stage, the study does not require full technical potential analysis or formal M&V planning. Instead, the focus is on identifying promising measures and understanding their energy performance characteristics, operational benefits, adoption challenges, and gaps that inhibit current incentive program participation. Results from this study will be combined with findings from the previous study (ET25SWG0004) to support a pipeline of potential new or enhanced CFS EE measures. Ultimately, the project seeks to enable future field and lab studies, support standardized testing protocol development, and potentially measure package creation of selected technologies across categories such advanced fryers, tilt skillets, and advanced burners, along with forward-looking technologies like sensor-based modulation or AI-enabled heat management, and advanced CFS controls.