Carrier’s Plan to Deploy Batteries Behind HVACs
We Mean Business Coalition & Carrier
This video is part of our series, Electric Advantage in Action, which spotlights how businesses are capitalizing on the tangible, wide-ranging benefits that come with electrification.
To complement its heat pump business, Carrier is now investing in batteries. Carrier is a leading producer of HVAC systems, which are the heating, ventilation and air conditioning units that regulate indoor climate and air quality year-round.
“HVACs are a third of the grid inside the U.S. and they are expanding globally,” said Emily Crites, Head of Sustainability at Carrier. “They are one of the top three causes of energy consumption in the world […] With that we said, ‘Let’s go ahead and put batteries behind HVACs.’”
The batteries allow Carrier’s units to absorb energy when it’s most available and deploy it during peak demand, helping to stabilize the grid. Carrier’s aim is to take advantage of electrification by deploying batteries at scale, meeting the growing demand for cooling in a sustainable, electrified way.
Transcript:
Emily Crites, Head of Sustainability at Carrier:
“We are very excited about our shift to electrification.”
“Beyond having electric heat pumps and creating efficiency in that space, we are putting battery storage behind HVAC because HVACs are a third of the grid inside of the U.S., and they are expanding globally.”
“They’re one of the top three causes of energy consumption in the world. So, how can we help to mitigate that or reduce the impact of that on the climate?”
“With that, we said, let’s go ahead and put batteries behind the HVACs, and we’re doing that.”
“We are starting in the residential space allowing the consumption of electricity whenever we have peak availability, and then it allows us also to deploy that during peak demand.”
“When everyone comes home, starts their washer, turns on the TV, starts cooking dinner, we deploy that, and we create stability in the grid.”
“But electrification as a whole is the future of how we decarbonize the world.”
“We can’t pretend that we’re going to use less electricity. Industry is going to demand more human demand to keep people cool.”
“We’re seeing the demand for electricity increase, and so, it needs to be renewable; it needs to be sustainable.”