Source: News | Matt Jachman | January 22, 2023
HVAC manufacturers had seats at the table during the White House Electrification Summit, which focused on the electrification of transportation and building systems as a means of reducing the country’s use of fossil fuels, and on the improvements to the power grid that are necessary to implement such changes.
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The energy intensity for cooling commercial buildings in the United States depends on the climate the building is located in. Energy intensity in buildings is the energy consumed per square foot of floorspace. U.S. commercial buildings in hot or very hot climates, which are primarily in the southernmost parts of the country, were more than six times more energy-intensive for cooling (14.2 thousand British thermal units per square foot [MBtu/sf]) than buildings in cold or very cold climates (2.3 MBtu/sf).