Global Residential Air-Conditioning Sector as a Driver for Photovoltaic Industry Growth during the 21st Century

Hannu S. Laine; Jyri Salpakari; Marius Peters; Erin E. Looney; Ashley E. Morishige; Hele Savin; Gregory Wilson; Tonio Buonassisi

doi:10.1109/PVSC.2017.8366280

Global Residential Air-Conditioning Sector as a Driver for Photovoltaic Industry Growth during the 21st Century

Hannu S. Laine^*, Jyri Salpakari, Marius Peters, Erin E. Looney, Ashley E. Morishige, Hele Savin, Gregory Wilson, Tonio Buonassisi

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Abstract

The air-conditioning (AC) sector offers an interesting synergy for photovoltaic (PV) electricity generation, because the demand for AC correlates with ideal times and locations for PV production. The AC sector is also a significant electricity consumer, currently comprising similar to 3 % of global electricity consumption and it is expected to grow rapidly in the future due to income and population growth in sunny countries as well as global warming. Here, we assess the potential of the residential AC sector to sustain and accelerate PV industry growth during the 21st century. We show that the residential AC sector could sustain more installed PV generation capacity than the current global PV manufacturing capacity could produce. We highlight other possible synergistic electricity consumption sectors with significant growth expected in the future.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 44th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC)
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	3230-3233
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Print)	978-1-5090-5605-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2017.8366280
Publication status	Published - 2017
MoE publication type	A4 Conference publication
Event	IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference - Washington, United States Duration: 25 Jun 2017 → 30 Jun 2017 Conference number: 44

Conference

Conference	IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference
Abbreviated title	PVSC
Country/Territory	United States
City	Washington
Period	25/06/2017 → 30/06/2017

Keywords

ENERGY
TRENDS
FLEXIBILITY
CLIMATE
DEMAND
LOAD

UN SDGs

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Laine, H. S., Salpakari, J., Peters, M., Looney, E. E., Morishige, A. E., Savin, H., Wilson, G., & Buonassisi, T. (2017). Global Residential Air-Conditioning Sector as a Driver for Photovoltaic Industry Growth during the 21st Century. In Proceedings of the 44th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC) (pp. 3230-3233). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2017.8366280

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Laine, HS, Salpakari, J, Peters, M, Looney, EE, Morishige, AE, Savin, H, Wilson, G & Buonassisi, T 2017, Global Residential Air-Conditioning Sector as a Driver for Photovoltaic Industry Growth during the 21st Century. in Proceedings of the 44th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC). IEEE, pp. 3230-3233, IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 25/06/2017. https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2017.8366280

Global Residential Air-Conditioning Sector as a Driver for Photovoltaic Industry Growth during the 21st Century. / Laine, Hannu S.; Salpakari, Jyri; Peters, Marius et al.
Proceedings of the 44th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC). IEEE, 2017. p. 3230-3233.

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