Bengaluur, India (AP)-Indian Government seeks to limit new air conditioning temperature settings to save electricity in the country that has considered the fastest growing market.
Minister of government in June Proposed a rule that the air conditioners sold in the country would have a thermostats that can be set at least 20 Celsius (68 Fahrenheitis).
Officials hope that minor changes will lead to huge energy savings in more than 1.4 billion people in the country. About 10 million to 15 million air conditioners are sold each year by increasing income and urbanization along with temperature.
The current lowest setting is 17 C (62 F). Officials say that each degree of air conditioner is set, saves about 6% energy.
The reaction to the changes is mixed
Energy experts said the proposal is a positive step, but the requirement that units are more effective for energy would help more.
Minister of government, Manaharas Lal Khattar, said the rule is coming into effect soon, but it was not specific for time.
The proposal received various reviews from people living in Indian wavy cities.
“In general, I think it’s worth trying to save energy, but at the same time I hope that the government will make people uncomfortable,” said 37-year-old teacher Vikram Kannan, who lives in a damp southern Cenn city with his wife and 4-year-old daughter. “Sometimes there is no other choice than setting a low air conditioner temperature in cities like chenna because it’s just too hot and humid. My daughter sometimes gets heat acne if we don’t.”
Air conditioners quickly become one of the largest energy in Guzzlers in India. Room air conditioners accounted for as much as a quarter of the electricity needed in India, the highest use of 2024. On time, which is known as the highest demand, says researchers at the University of Berkeley at the University of California. The new AC units, attached from 2019 to 2024, increased the highest demand for India compared to approximately equal amounts that will require one year to feed the new Delhi, researchers estimate.
Usually, the energy demand is the highest in the summer, when the temperature can reach 51 degrees Celsius (124 degrees Fahrenheit).
If the changes are not made, India is expected to be power until next year. Indian energy hunger is also the main reason for the country to be one of the largest planetary gas emissions. Clean power consumption is growing, but most Indian electricity is provided by fossil fuels such as coal.
Nikit Abhyankar, leader of the Energy and Climate Center at the University of California in Berkeley University, said Delhi, like other major Indian cities, is now experiencing double the apex of electricity consumption – one afternoon and the other at midnight – mainly by air conditioners. While solar energy can help to compensate for the demand for the day, the cooling of the night still depends on the fossil fuel.
Changes in the rules can encourage consumers to use less energy
The air conditioner’s proposal is the latest in the Government series in the last decade to save energy, such as the obligation to cool down at least 24 degrees Celsius (75 degrees Fahrenheit). 2022 The government has launched the Mission Life program, which includes public service messages that encourage people to reduce emissions by reducing the use of electricity or by skipping unnecessary cars. The initiative announced with Fanfare received various answers.
Some support the proposed amendment to the air conditioner settings. Sunil Kumar, 47 from the East Delhi, said the rule could prevent fire hazards and reduce accounts.
“People used to live without air conditioners. We can adapt,” said Kumar, who is driving a small commercial vehicle called Tuk-Tuk.
Surjeet Singh, a businessman in the new Delhi, said the rotation of the air conditioners to the current lowest environment was “unnecessary”.
“People have become too comfortable,” he said, offering cities investing in tree planting to fight the city’s heat.
Indian air conditioners are ineffective
California Professor Abhyankar said that changing temperature parameters will help, demanding that the air conditioners be effective for energy.
“Strict minimum efficiency standards can change things a lot,” said Abhyankar, who also studied the energy sector in the US, China, Indonesia and Vietnam.
The name of the air conditioner’s rule is “in the right direction”, the energy savings expert Preda Singh, with the new Delhi-based alliance for the energy-saving economy, said that changing about 80 million generations of the country’s older generations is ineffective air conditioners.
Abhyankar said many Indian units are so ineffective that they could not be sold in many other countries.
“Although India imports most of the main air conditioners from China, almost 80% of the air conditioners currently sold in India would be banned in China,” he said.
Energy experts said other small changes can reduce energy consumption and customer costs, such as making sure that new buildings have proper ventilation by combining air conditioning with other cooling techniques and using intellectual technology to start air conditioning.
“The use of air conditioners significantly reduces if consumers also use their own fans ceiling fan as the room cools much faster,” said Abhyankar.
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