Costs and benefits of energy efficiency improvements in ceiling fans

Shah, Nihar; Sathaye, Nakul; Phadke, Amol; Letschert, Virginie

Title: Costs and benefits of energy efficiency improvements in ceiling fans

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Ceiling fans contribute significantly to residential electricity consumption, especially in developing countries with warm climates. The paper provides analysis of costs and benefits of several options to improve the efficiency of ceiling fans to assess the global potential for electricity savings and green house gas (GHG) emission reductions. Ceiling fan efficiency can be cost-effectively improved by at least 50% using commercially available technology. If these efficiency improvements are implemented in all ceiling fans sold by 2020, 70 terawatt hours per year could be saved and 25 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2-e) emissions per year could be avoided, globally. We assess how policies and programs such as standards, labels, and financial incentives can be used to accelerate the adoption of efficient ceiling fans in order to realize potential savings.

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Shah, Nihar; Sathaye, Nakul; Phadke, Amol; Letschert, Virginie ^[1]

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab., CA (United States). Environmental Energy Technology Division

Publication Date:: Tue Oct 15 00:00:00 EDT 2013

Research Org.:: Clean Energy Ministerial Secretariat, Washington, DC (United States)

OSTI Identifier:: 22151720

Resource Type:: Miscellaneous

Resource Relation:: Other Information: See the Clean Energy Ministerial site for other publications of interest http://www.cleanenergyministerial.org/ResourceCenter/Publications.aspx

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; CEILING FANS; ENERGY CONSERVATION; RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS; ENERGY POLICY; MONITORING

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  abstractNote = {Ceiling fans contribute significantly to residential electricity consumption, especially in developing countries with warm climates. The paper provides analysis of costs and benefits of several options to improve the efficiency of ceiling fans to assess the global potential for electricity savings and green house gas (GHG) emission reductions. Ceiling fan efficiency can be cost-effectively improved by at least 50% using commercially available technology. If these efficiency improvements are implemented in all ceiling fans sold by 2020, 70 terawatt hours per year could be saved and 25 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2-e) emissions per year could be avoided, globally. We assess how policies and programs such as standards, labels, and financial incentives can be used to accelerate the adoption of efficient ceiling fans in order to realize potential savings.},

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