Rajan Rawal2025-02-202025-02-20Oct.2018FP-133-PRhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12725/27506India�s cooling energy needs are projected to grow significantly within the next decade, with far reaching environmental and societal impacts. The Government of India (GoI) has elevated addressing India�s cooling challenge as a national priority and is actively engaged in developing a National Cooling Action Plan. A recent study by Alliance for an Energy Efficient Economy (AEEE) projects that just within the next decade, India�s cooling energy demand will grow 2.2 to 3 times over the current level, under moderate-growth or potential high-growth scenarios respectively. Of this overall nationwide cooling demand, space cooling, i.e. comfort cooling in the building sector, comprises 50% of the total; this sector also shows the maximum improvement potential in terms of energy saving and carbon emission reduction. Space cooling thus represents a key opportunity area for proactively managing India�s cooling energy demand. With most of India�s air-conditioner stock yet to come, now is the critical window of opportunity to build in interventions that will have a meaningful impact on the future space cooling related energy consumption and emissions. Given the criticality of what is at stake, all possible levers will have to be pulled to make a collective difference: building energy efficiency, equipment efficiency, alternate cooling technologies, as well as user behavioral adaptations.Project Reporthttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/327743553_Projecting_National_Energy_Saving_Estimate_from_the_Adoption_of_Adaptive_Thermal_Comfort_Standards_in_2030