Evaporative cooling: An assessment of california market potential and estimated impacts of key deployment barriers

The California Energy Commission has recognized evaporative cooling space conditioning as a key demand-side “Opportunity Technology,” which offers compelling energy, economic development and environmental benefits to the state. In 1993, the Commission lead an effort to form an industry Collaborative of Stakeholders whose primary focus was to improve market penetration through the identification and elimination of the key barriers to technology deployment. More recently, the Commission has supported this objective through the funding of a statewide market assessment of evaporative cooling in the residential and commercial market segments with Regional Economic Research, Inc. of San Diego, California under Contract No. 500-93-027. Summary data and results from this work are presented in this paper.