cooling balance point

The outside air temperature (OAT) at which the cooling system in a building begins to operate. Each building's cooling balance point is determined by any factor associated with the building that has some effect on the cooling of the building, such as the building envelope construction, or its temperature set points. For this reason, the balance point temperature can vary from building to building. The cooling balance point is used to calculate cooling degree days, a measure of the demand for energy to cool the building.

The Energy application can calculate a building's balance points as part of the weather model data it creates when you run the Update Calculations task, or you can manually enter this temperature.

See also heating balance point.