The role and development of comfort cooling in the transition and for climate adaptation

An increasing demand for energy efficiency indirectly requires that comfort cooling in homes does not increase uncontrollably. After several years of very high summer temperatures, there is a change in actors’ and users’ view of comfort cooling. At the moment there is a clear knowledge gap, partly about how this use looks and changes and also about actors’ and users’ views on installing comfort cooling in individual properties and multi-apartment buildings.

In this project, the work is divided into four (4) work packages where we (1) will compile technology choices and use of cooling in single- and multi-family houses, (2) explore the different actors’ perception on comfort cooling, as well as the actors’ views on its future development. The term actor includes both professional actors as well as homeowners. In work package (3) we will analyze the consequences of a potentially changed use of comfort cooling in single- and multi-family houses. This will form the basis for, among other things, (4) our collaboration on creating a regional strategy that includes comfort cooling within the local initiative ‘Östergötland bygger klimatneutralt’ (ÖBKN).