Beijer Ref?s SEC200 heat recovery technology delivering hot water with almost zero energy consumption to food charity Felix
Publish Date: 2026-07-02 06:16:00
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Felix rescues surplus food and delivers it to community organisations and schools. The SEC200 recovers waste heat from the refrigeration plant and uses it to supply hot water to the site’s new canteen, utility room, shower room and first-floor toilets.
“Performance has been excellent” said William Liggett at KDH Projects. “After several months of continuous operation, the data shows almost zero energy consumption for hot water production. The SEC200 is recovering so much waste heat that it’s effectively delivering free hot water. The results match, and in some areas exceed, our expectations.”
Mr Liggett said the standout benefit for both contractor and customer has been the reduction in hot water energy use.
“The system has virtually eliminated the need for traditional water heating, delivering significant ongoing cost savings” he added.
The Deptford installation follows earlier SEC200 projects for Felix, with the charity now installing the technology across new sites.
“Following the success in our previous installations, in our most recent build in Deptford, utilising our increased chilled storage capacity, the SEC200 has been able to supply hot water serving our incredible new canteen, utility room, shower room and toilets on the first floor” said Nick Clifton at Felix. “We now install SEC200s on all our new sites with the confidence in practice and knowledge of both their environmental and economic sustainability.”
SEC, or Sustainable Energy Controller, is a standalone heat recovery product that harvests heat from refrigeration and air conditioning systems and converts it into hot water. It is designed for commercial applications where there is both a cooling demand from refrigeration or air conditioning, and a heating demand for hot water or low temperature heating.
When a refrigeration system is running, SEC recovers heat that would otherwise be rejected and uses it to generate hot water. Even when the cold rooms are satisfied and…
