Abstract
Energy and climate are inextricably linked at scales ranging from individual building to global. At the building scale, energy consumption consists of a base load and a space conditioning load that depend on weather conditions. Energy consumed in buildings is ultimately converted to waste heat. Anthropogenic heat released from buildings affects the urban climate system and produces a feedback on building energy consumption for space conditioning – positive feedback in summer, negative feedback in winter. These interconnections further interact with climate and the growing stresses on our available supplies of energy. This chapter studies these interactions.
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