Space Cooling in the United States: A Market Deep Dive

Baxter, Van D.; Sikes, Karen; Khowailed, Gannate

Title: Space Cooling in the United States: A Market Deep Dive

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The American space cooling market is experiencing stricter efficiency standards, prosperous economic conditions, a steadily recovering housing market, population migration shift to warmer climates, and declining electricity prices. These factors have yielded a climate conducive to growth in air conditioning (AC) and air source heat pump (HP) shipments in the recent past with total AC and HP shipments in 2015 accounting for 6.8 million units, showing a growth of 32 % relative to 2010. In this article, the authors investigate the impact that regulatory changes and economic changes have had on unit shipments and identify future market influencers, including the introduction of advanced HVAC technologies and transition to more environmentally friendly refrigerants.

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Baxter, Van D. ^[1]; Sikes, Karen ^[2]; Khowailed, Gannate ^[2]

Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
CSRA, Fairfax, VA (United States)

Publication Date:: Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2016

Research Org.:: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Building Technologies Research and Integration Center (BTRIC)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1329766

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: IEA Heat Pump Center Newsletter (Online)

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Name: IEA Heat Pump Center Newsletter (Online); Journal Volume: 34; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 0724-7028

Publisher:: IEA HPC

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY

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  abstractNote = {The American space cooling market is experiencing stricter efficiency standards, prosperous economic conditions, a steadily recovering housing market, population migration shift to warmer climates, and declining electricity prices. These factors have yielded a climate conducive to growth in air conditioning (AC) and air source heat pump (HP) shipments in the recent past with total AC and HP shipments in 2015 accounting for 6.8 million units, showing a growth of 32 % relative to 2010. In this article, the authors investigate the impact that regulatory changes and economic changes have had on unit shipments and identify future market influencers, including the introduction of advanced HVAC technologies and transition to more environmentally friendly refrigerants.},

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