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Assessing and Reducing Miscellaneous Electric Loads (MELs) in Banks
Miscellaneous electric loads (MELs) are the loads outside of a building's core functions of heating, ventilating, air conditioning, lighting, and water heating. MELs are becoming an increasing fraction of total building energy use. The explosive growth in products that plug into an outlet coupled with increasing efficiency in core building functions has made MELs a larger percentage of total building energy loads. Taken across the entire commercial building sector, MELs now account for roughly 30% of total energy use; this amounts to about 5% of all U.S. primary energy use (McKenney, 2010). Limited studies in bank branches conducted under DOE's Commercial Building Partnerships Program show that MELs energy use is consistent with other commercial buildings at about 30% of total building load. The pie chart to the left presents the energy loads found within a bank branch located in a cold climate.
Assessing and Reducing Miscellaneous Electric Loads (MELs) in Banks
Miscellaneous electric loads (MELs) are the loads outside of a building's core functions of heating, ventilating, air conditioning, lighting, and water heating. MELs are becoming an increasing fraction of total building energy use. The explosive growth in products that plug into an outlet coupled with increasing efficiency in core building functions has made MELs a larger percentage of total building energy loads. Taken across the entire commercial building sector, MELs now account for roughly 30% of total energy use; this amounts to about 5% of all U.S. primary energy use (McKenney, 2010). Limited studies in bank branches conducted under DOE's Commercial Building Partnerships Program show that MELs energy use is consistent with other commercial buildings at about 30% of total building load. The pie chart to the left presents the energy loads found within a bank branch located in a cold climate.
Assessing and Reducing Miscellaneous Electric Loads (MELs) in Banks
E. Rauch (author) / M. Baechler (author) / G. Sullivan (author)
2011
20 pages
Report
No indication
English
Energy Use, Supply, & Demand , Heating & Cooling Systems , Architectural Design & Environmental Engineering , Energy consumption , Peak loads , Commercial buildings , Air conditioning , Audits , Energy demand , Energy efficiency , Heating , Lighting systems , Ventilation , Water heating , Miscellaneous electric loads(MELs)
U.S. Residential Miscellaneous Electric Loads Electricity Consumption
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