Cooling Evaluation

Berkeley Lab’s Global Cooling Efficiency Program seeks to promote and advance the evaluation of cooling efficiency policies and programs, in tandem with refrigerant transition, in regional and international efforts. While proper design and implementation of energy and environmental policies are crucial to achieve cooling policy goals, the global refrigerant transition effort needs to strengthen its compliance and evaluation by linking the current mechanism with what exist in energy-efficiency standards programs in order to maximize the long-term benefits. Our program helps policymakers sustainably improve cooling-efficiency market transformation programs by conducting a policy impact evaluation (including energy and demand savings and co-benefits) and providing guidance for establishing a compliance process, including product test methods, seasonal efficiency metrics, product databases and international policy practices, for cooling equipment.