How air-conditioning created the modern city

Re:How air-conditioning created the modern city by wlesieutre on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @05:44PM (#17762183)

The Energy Information Administration is the go-to place for that sort of data. Here's their big-picture overview of the US:

Residential AC: 1380 billion kWh * 0.158 = 218 billion kWh

Commercial AC: 1350 billion kWh * 0.106 = 143 billion kWh

Industrial data is from 2014 and grouped the heating, ventilation, and cooling together, so we can't break that down from this data.

Totaling residential and commercial is 361 billion kWh in 2017 for the US. I'm not sure about total energy use in Africa.

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