Monday Morning Workshops

Electricity Use Implications of Better Indoor Air Quality

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  Linda Wigington

  Principal
  Linda M Wigington & Associates
  Waynesburg, Pennsylvania

Better indoor air quality can involve dehumidification, filtration, and radon mitigation. Each of these involve electricity use, however there is a huge range of electricity cost and performance possible.
Join in examining opportunities to reduce each of these loads while maximizing the benefits. Strategies include higher performance building enclosures, more efficient equipment, better design & installation, as well as strategies to help to ensure that the systems operate as intended. The incorporation of low cost monitoring for occupant/contractor feedback will be examined. Case studies will demonstrate the range of energy use, performance, and savings possible. The focus of this session is not health impacts or benefits or comprehensive home upgrades, but more narrowly the electric use of the different intervention strategies.

 

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the size and variability of indoor air quality-related electricity loads
• Be able to describe ways in which these loads work with either positive or negative synergy with an improved building enclosure
• For each end use (dehumidification, filtration, radon mitigation) be able to identify factors that lead to excessiver reduced energy use