AHRI Releases Latest US Heating and Cooling Equipment Shipment Data

The Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute has released its latest U.S. heating and cooling equipment shipment data. Industry data is aggregated from the information supplied by AHRI member companies that participate in the statistics program and can be subject to revision. Learn more at ahrinet.org. The latest data available is as follows:

Residential storage water heaters
U.S. shipments of residential gas storage water heaters for July 2022 decreased 34.5%, to 264,609 units, down from 403,881 units shipped in July 2021. Residential electric storage water heater shipments decreased 26.6% in July 2022 to 302,781 units, down from 412,707 units shipped in July 2021.

Year-to-date U.S. shipments of residential gas storage water heaters decreased 13.2%, to 2,497,130 compared to 2,875,653 shipped during that same period in 2021. Residential electric storage water heater shipments decreased 3.7% year-to-date, to 2,753,717 units, compared to 2,858,236 shipped during the same period in 2021.

Commercial storage water heaters
Commercial gas storage water heater shipments decreased 6.1% in July 2022, to 6,865 units, down from 7,309 units shipped in July 2021. Commercial electric storage water heater shipments decreased 16.2% in July 2022, to 9,601 units, down from 11,462 units shipped in July 2021.

Year-to-date U.S. shipments of commercial gas storage water heaters decreased 6.5%, to 50,367 units, compared with 53,858 units shipped during the same period in 2021. Year-to-date commercial electric storage water heater shipments decreased 23% to 67,359 units, down from 87,473 units shipped during the same period in 2021.

Warm air furnaces
U.S. shipments of gas warm air furnaces for July 2022 decreased 3.5%, to 299,823 units, down from 310,614 units shipped in July 2021. Oil warm air furnace shipments decreased 43.1%, to 1,754 units in July 2022, down from 3,082 units shipped in July 2021.

Year-to-date U.S. shipments of gas warm air furnaces decreased 1.8%, to 2,304,781 units, compared with 2,346,840 units shipped during the same period in 2021. Year-to-date U.S. shipments of oil warm air furnaces decreased 21.2%, to 15,309 units, compared with 19,424 units shipped during the same period in 2021.

Central air conditioners and air-source heat pumps
U.S. shipments of central air conditioners and air-source heat pumps totaled 900,209 units in July 2022, down 5.5% from 952,323 units shipped in July 2021. U.S. shipments of air conditioners decreased 12.6%, to 538,146 units, down from 615,860 units shipped in July 2021. U.S. shipments of air-source heat pumps increased 7.6%, to 362,063 units, up from 336,463 units shipped in July 2021.

Year-to-date combined shipments of central air conditioners and air-source heat pumps increased 2.5%, to 6,442,769 units, up from 6,282,749 units shipped during the same period in 2021. Year-to-date shipments of central air conditioners decreased 0.4%, to 3,876,462 units, down from 3,892,236 units shipped during the same period in 2021. The year-to-date total for heat pump shipments increased 7.4%, to 2,566,307, up from 2,390,513 units shipped during the same period in 2021.