Residential Central Air Conditioning and Heat Pump Installation – Workshop Outcomes

Technical Report · Tue Nov 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1420232· OSTI ID:1420232

Goetzler, William ^[1]; Zogg, Robert ^[1]; Young, Jim ^[1]; Bargach, Youssef ^[1]

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1. Navigant Consulting, Burlington, MA (United States)

DOE's Building Technologies Office works with researchers and industry partners to develop and deploy technologies that can substantially reduce energy consumption in residential and commercial buildings. This report aims to advance BTO’s energy savings, emissions reduction, and other program goals by identifying research and development (R&D), demonstration and deployment, and other non-regulatory initiatives for improving the design and installation of residential central air conditioners (CAC) and central heat pumps (CHP). Improving the adoption of CAC/CHP design and installation best practices has significant potential to reduce equipment costs, improve indoor air quality and comfort, improve system performance, and most importantly, reduce household energy consumption and costs for heating and cooling by addressing a variety of common installation issues.

• Research Organization: Navigant Consulting, Burlington, MA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Building Technologies Office (EE-5B) (Building Technologies Office Corporate)
• OSTI ID: 1420232
• Report Number(s): DOE/EE-1496; 7863
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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