Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

The critical role of humidity in modeling summer electricity demand across the United States

  • Debora Maia-Silva,
  • Rohini Kumar,
  • Roshanak Nateghi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15393-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Cooling demand project largely ignores the role of humidity. Here the authors show that in many of the high energy consuming states, projections based on air temperature alone underestimates cooling demand by as much as 10–15% under both present and future climate scenarios, due to the neglected role of humidity.