Commercial refrigerationENERGY STAR certified
EMPURA ESM-36B
28 cu ft vertical transparent door refrigerator commercial refrigerator.
Total volume
28 cu ft
Daily energy use
2.19 kWh/day
Doors
2
Refrigerant
R-290
Of 792 certified vertical transparent door refrigerator commercial refrigeration, 484 have a lower daily energy use than the ESM-36B (2.19 kWh/day).
At 2.19 kWh/day it uses about 799 kWh a year, roughly $104 at 13¢/kWh.
- Maker
- EMPURA
- Model
- ESM-36B
- Type
- Vertical Transparent Door Refrigerator
- Total volume
- 28 cu ft
- Doors
- 2
- Glass doors
- 2
- Drawers
- 0
- Door opening
- Sliding
- Defrost
- Automatic
- Daily energy use
- 2.19 kWh/day
- Height
- 79.7 in
- Width
- 44.5 in
- Depth
- 28.4 in
- Refrigerant
- R-290
- On the market since
- Nov 2025
- ENERGY STAR certified
- 13 Feb 2026
Certified under the same record
The maker lists these as the same machine or a variant of it: ESM-36W.
Source: ENERGY STAR certified commercial refrigeration dataset, US EPA, record 4570152, data build 2026-09-29. Figures are as the maker certified them. How we use this data.
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