Using energy audits to investigate the impacts of common air-conditioning design and installation issues on peak power demand and energy consumption in Austin, Texas

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3271-3278

  Rhodes, Joshua D ^a   Stephens, Brent ^a   Webber, Michael E ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Air conditioning oversizing; Duct leakage; Electrical utility; Energy audits; Existing building stock; Measured capacity; Peak demand; Residential building energy use

Indexed keywords

DUCT LEAKAGE; ELECTRICAL UTILITIES; ENERGY AUDIT; EXISTING BUILDING; MEASURED CAPACITY; OVER-SIZING; PEAK DEMAND; RESIDENTIAL BUILDING;

DUCTS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; ESTIMATION; MANAGEMENT;

AIR CONDITIONING;

EID: 80053325188     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2011.08.032     Document Type: Article

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