%0 Report
%K Energy savings
%K Cool roof
%K United States
%K Global Cooling
%K Urban heat island mitigation
%K Cool walls
%K Disadvantaged communities
%K Deployment
%K Indoor thermal comfort
%A Ronnen M Levinson
%A Edward A Arens
%A Emmanuel Bozonnet
%A Vincenzo Corrado
%A Haley E Gilbert
%A Peter Holzer
%A Pierre Jaboyedoff
%A Amanda Krelling
%A Anaïs Machard
%A Wendy Miller
%A Mamak P.Tootkaboni
%A Stephen E Selkowitz
%A Hui Zhang
%D 2023
%R 10.20357/B7288C
%T Policy Recommendations from IEA EBC Annex 80: Resilient Cooling of Buildings
%U https://doi.org/10.20357/B7288C
%8 06/2023
%X <p>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.</p>