Ninety-three percent. That’s the share of Southern households running air conditioning, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s 2020 Residential Energy Consumption Survey. It’s the highest regional rate in the entire country. If you live in Alabama, Georgia, or anywhere along the Gulf Coast corridor, that number won’t surprise you one bit. What might surprise you is just how much strain that constant demand puts on your equipment, and what happens when people underestimate it.
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