Hudson Technologies selected to support CARB REFRESH pilot program

Hudson Technologies (HDSN) has been named, after a competitive process, as one of two reclamation providers to participate in the California Air Resources Board’s REFRESH pilot program, the state’s first program to incentivize refrigerant recovery and reclamation. The REFRESH pilot program will initially partner Hudson Technologies with refrigerant contractors participating in California Energy Commission’s Equitable Building Decarbonization Statewide Direct Install program for the purchase of recovered HFCs and HCFCs for reclamation. Additionally, Hudson will train the partnering refrigerant technicians in best practices for the safe and efficient recovery of refrigerants. The North American Sustainable Refrigerant Council is administering the program, which is funded through CARB’s F-gas Reduction Incentive Program, a funding program established to alleviate barriers to adopting climate-friendly refrigerant technologies and to reduce emissions of HFCs, in part by identifying opportunities to increase the recovery and reclamation of existing high-GWP refrigerants. Up to $5M of FRIP funding is available for the REFRESH pilot to directly fund the buyback of recovered refrigerant and to support administrative and labor costs.