Sentences with phrase «electric demand burdens»

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It's a multi-prong approach to reach this goal, which would include Passive House construction along with Decent House / site generation and other efforts contributing to demand destruction, coupled with a shift in transport to non petroleum based fuels (electric vehicles and etc.) Since our focus here is on housing, I really would like to see Decent House scale up for the huge existing housing stock inventory yet to be touched by this approach, along with Passive House lessons applied to new construction, where the basic concept is to shift the burden of maintaining a comfortable, healthy living space toward the envelope, while reducing the intensity of HVAC required.

On top of this, the report notes that solar thermal cooling technology - in which the sun's heat is used to power thermally driven absorption chillers or evaporation devices to cool air - can reduce the burden on electric grids at times of peak cooling demand by fully or partially replacing conventional electrically powered air conditioners in buildings.