<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>27</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gregory J. Rosenquist</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Peter Chan</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Alexander B. Lekov</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">James E. McMahon</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Van Buskirk, Robert D.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Consumer Life-Cycle Cost Impacts of Energy-Efficiency Standards for Residential-Type Central Air Conditioners and Heat Pumps</style></title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2001</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">October 10</style></date></pub-dates></dates><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">LBNL-49355</style></number><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Berkeley</style></pub-location><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">30</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">In support of the federal government's efforts to raise the minimum energy-efficiency standards for residential-type central air conditioners and heat pumps, a consumer life-cycle cost (LCC) analysis was conducted to demonstrate the economic impacts on individual consumers from revisions to the standards. LCC is the consumer's cost of purchasing and installing an air conditioner or heat pump and operating the unit over its lifetime. The LCC analysis is conducted on a nationally representative sample of air conditioner and heat pump consumers resulting in a distribution of LCC impacts showing the percentage of consumers that are either benefitting or being burdened by increased standards. Relative to the existing minimum efficiency standard of 10 SEER, the results show that a majority of split system air conditioner and heat pump consumers will either benefit or be insignificantly impacted by increased efficiency standards of up to 13 SEER.</style></abstract><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Conference Paper, ASHRAE Transactions, 108, issue: 13, 2002 2001-10-10</style></notes><custom2><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">LBNL-49355</style></custom2></record></records></xml>