Abstract: Based on meteorological data and social-economic statistical data, influence factor analysis of urban residential cooling energy consumption in Beijing was performed. Some conclusions are drawn: under given architecture design standard, four factors, including cooling intensity, urban population, per capita urban housing area and air conditioner ratio, directly affect the urban residential cooling energy consumption by air conditioners. In general, the amount of cooling energy consumption tends to increase inevitably because the later three factors increase continuously. Among four factors, climate is the only one that can act to save energy sometimes. In Beijing, the speed of urbanization is large, the contribution of the air conditioner ratio to increase in cooling energy consumption ranks the first in most years.

Key words: urban residential building, cooling energy consumption by air conditioner, influence factor, contribution ratio, urbanization, climate change