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Resilient Cooling of Buildings (International Energy Agency EBC Annex 80) – Policy Recommendations
Authors
Ronnen Levinson, Ed Arens, Emmanuel Bozonnet, Vincenzo Corrado, Haley Gilbert, Peter Holzer, Pierre Jaboyedoff, Amanda Krelling, Anaïs Machard, Wendy Miller, Mamak P. Tootkaboni, Stephen Selkowitz, Hui Zhang
Language
English
Pages
DIN A4
75 pp.
DOI
10.20357/B7288C
Abstract
International Energy Agency Energy in Buildings and Communities (IEA EBC) Annex 80: Resilient Cooling of Buildings promotes a rapid transition to the mainstream and preferred use of resilient low-energy and low-carbon cooling systems in buildings. Annex 80 Subtask D (Policy Actions) advances policy-related endeavors that support energy efficiency and resilience in cooling. The Subtask team analyzed product labelling programs; air conditioning minimum energy performance standards (MEPS) and voluntary measures; and building regulations, standards, and compliance requirements, identifying policy gaps and opportunities. It then generated a set of 37 policy recommendations that boost resilience to heat waves and/or power grid failure by reducing heat gain, removing sensible heat, enhancing thermal comfort without mechanical cooling, or removing latent heat. Strategies addressed include advanced solar shading/advanced glazing, cool envelope materials, evaporative envelope surfaces, ventilated envelope surfaces, heat storage and release, ventilative cooling, adiabatic/evaporative cooling, compression refrigeration, high-temperature cooling systems using low-grade thermal energy, comfort ventilation, micro-cooling and personal comfort control, and whole-building solutions. Each recommendation identifies the mechanism(s) through which the policy would be applied and the disruption(s) mitigated; details the what, why, how, who, where, timeline, cost, and potential undesirable side effects of implementation; and suggests a policy model to follow.
Highlights
These recommendations promote passive or low-energy cooling strategies for buildings that
boost resilience to heat waves and/or power grid failure by reducing heat gain, removing
sensible heat, enhancing thermal comfort without mechanical cooling, or removing latent heat.
They do not address power-grid resilience, ways to supplement grid power, or other means of
responding to extreme heat, such as relocating building occupants or mitigating the urban
heat island.
Results
37 recommendations, providing a short summary, information on policy mechanisms, technology targets and disruptions mitigated.
As well as
What the policy recommendation is to accomplish.
Why the policy recommendation should be developed and applied.
How the policy recommendation is to be developed and applied.
Who will create, implement, and/or execute the policy recommendation.
Where the policy recommendation could apply.
Implementation timeline. Whether the time to implement the policy recommendation would be short (typically less than 1 year), medium (1 to 5 years), or long (greater than 5 years).
Costs to create, implement, and/or execute the policy recommendation.
Potential significant undesirable side effects of executing the policy. What could
go wrong.Policy model to follow. An existing policy that could inform the creation,
implementation, and execution of the policy recommendation.
Keywords
Resilient cooling, policy recommendation
Citation
Levinson, R., Arens, E., Bozonnet, E., Corrado, V., Gilbert, H., Holzer, P., Jaboyedoff, P., Krelling, A., Machard, A., Miller, W., Tootkaboni, M.P., Selkowitz, S. & Zhang, H., 2023. Policy Recommendations from IEA EBC Annex 80: Resilient Cooling of Buildings. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.20357/B7288C
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