Demand Shifting With Thermal Mass in Large Commercial Buildings: Field Tests, Simulations and Audits
Dec. 31, 2005
U.S. Department of Energy, Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peng Xu, David Michel, Mark Rawson, Laurie ten Hope, Martha Krebs, Ph. D., B.B. Blevins
This report describes the principle of pre-cooling and demand limiting, used to pre-cool buildings at night or in the morning during off-peak hours, for storing cooling in the building thermal mass and for reducing cooling loads during the peak periods.