@techreport{32221,
  keywords = {Indonesia, Air Conditioners},
  author = {Virginie E Letschert and Sarah K Price and Ambereen Shaffie and Won Young Park and Nihan Karali and Nikit Abhyankar and Nihar Shah and Ari Darmawan Pasek},
  title = {Accelerating the Transition to More Energy Efficient Air Conditioners in Indonesia},
  abstract = {<p>Sales of Air Conditioners (ACs) in Indonesia are forecasted to increase by 7.5\% each year, which suggests that the peak demand could increase by over 20 GW by 2035 (McNeil et al., 2019). Large-scale deployment of highly efficient and increasingly affordable inverter-driven (variable-speed) ACs could reduce Indonesia{\textquoteright}s AC electricity use by 30\%{\textendash}50\%. However, adoption of inverter-driven ACs has lagged in Indonesia: the technology constitutes only 8\% of the Indonesian AC market, compared with 40\% in Southeast Asia and 65\% in China. In this context, LBNL designed a technical analysis to support policy action to transform the market towards more efficient ACs (including with low- global warming potential (GWP) refrigerants) in the longer term. Setting longer-term targets in consultation with the AC industry is an approach that has been used very successfully in the context of refrigerant changes under the Montreal Protocol, under the treaty{\textquoteright}s well-known {\textquotedblleft}start-and-strengthen{\textquotedblright} approach. Such an approach, particularly when pegged to policies aimed at mitigating costs of superefficient technology, serves as a positive investment signal to manufacturers, further reducing compliance costs for manufacturers and ultimately reducing the costs to consumers.</p>},
  year = {2020},
  month = {01/2020},
  language = {eng},
}