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Using anonymized data from approximately 15,000 homes, the study showed that a disproportionate amount of air conditioning use came from a small number of the most inefficient homes. The data was gathered by the Sense Home Energy Monitor, a consumer product that tracks real-time electricity usage in homes and uses machine learning and device disaggregation to identify individual devices by their energy signatures. The study quantified that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Optimizing the 20% of homes with highest air conditioning energy usage to match the 20% of homes<br \/>\nwith lowest air conditioning energy use could save 8% of all US residential electricity;<\/li>\n<li>Customers in the most inefficient homes spend almost four times as much to cool their homes than<br \/>\ncustomers with the most efficient homes, leading to an average of $882 extra spent on cooling per<br \/>\nyear;<\/li>\n<li>Potential savings to U.S. consumers is $15.3 billion annually;<\/li>\n<li>115 billion kilowatt hours could be saved annually;<\/li>\n<li>52M tons of carbon emissions could be avoided annually if the HVAC inefficiency were addressed and;<\/li>\n<li>The twenty percent of homes with highest cooling use have a disproportionate impact, accounting for 45% of all cooling consumption nationwide.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Download: <a title=\"Using Home Energy Monitoring Technology to Assess Residential Air Conditioning\" href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Using-Home-Energy-Monitoring-Technology-to-Assess-Residential-Air-Conditioning.pdf\">Using Home Energy Monitoring Technology to Assess Residential Air Conditioning<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study using detailed home energy data quantifies the extent, and financial and carbon costs, of air conditioning usage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":355,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"1","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"content-type":[9],"featured":[],"resource-center-category":[18],"class_list":["post-354","resources","type-resources","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","content-type-white-paper","resource-center-category-technology"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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