The Home Cooling Program: Lessons Learned in Transforming the Residential Cooling Market

摘要

The Home Cooling Program was funded in early 1998 as a Market Transformation program by a major California utility to promote a new residential cooling technology particularly well suited to California's climate. Evaporative condensers (EC's) immerse the outdoor condensing coil in an evaporatively cooled sump, resulting in condensing temperatures as much as 30-40deg F cooler than conventional air-cooled condensing units. Reduced condensing temperatures result in reduced peak load, 30percnet or more coling energy savings, and more stable coolign capacity at high outdoortemperatures relative to conventional air-cooled condensing units.