Status Quo of the Air-Conditioning Market in Europe: Assessment of the Building Stock

Simon Pezzutto, Matteo De Felice, Reza Fazeli, Lukas Kranzl and Stefano Zambotti
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Simon Pezzutto: Institute for Renewable Energy, European Academy of Bozen/Bolzano (Eurac Research), Viale Druso 1, 39100 Bolzano, Italy
Matteo De Felice: Climate Impacts & Modelling laboratory, ENEA, Via Martiri di Monte Sole 4, 40129 Bologna, Italy
Reza Fazeli: Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Iceland, Sæmundargata 2, 101 Reykjavík, Iceland
Lukas Kranzl: Energy Economics Group, Institute of Energy Systems and Electric Drives, Vienna University of Technology, Gusshausstrasse 25-29/370-3, 1040 Vienna, Austria
Stefano Zambotti: Institute for Renewable Energy, European Academy of Bozen/Bolzano (Eurac Research), Viale Druso 1, 39100 Bolzano, Italy

Energies, 2017, vol. 10, issue 9, 1-17

Abstract: This study fills in knowledge gaps for the European air-conditioning (AC) market, which is fundamentally important to raising awareness about primary energy utilization. In contrast to space heating (SH) and domestic hot water (DHW) preparation, the European Union (EU) AC market is barely explored in scientific literature. While the focus of previous research has been on the residential sector, a shortfall of data for the services (wholesale and retail, offices, education, health, hotels and bars) exists. In this paper, data describing the actual space cooling (SC) market in Europe (quantity of SC units, equivalent full-load hours, installed capacities, seasonal energy efficiency values as well as cooled floor area per AC type and/or sector) is collected and explored using a bottom-up approach. Results indicate that SC is responsible for a significant portion of EU electricity consumption in households (nearly 5%) and even more in the service sector (~13%). Energy consumption for SC in the EU28 appears to be more than 140 TWh/y. The quantification of the European AC consumption shows a significant difference between the service and residential sectors: about 115 versus 25 TWh/y respectively. The SC market in Europe is characterized by a high potential for growth, especially in households.

Keywords: air-conditioning (AC); market; Europe; status quo; potential (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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