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2027 Motor System Stock Assessment Webinar #1 Slides
On March 25, 2026, staff from the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) presented details about the upcoming 2027 Motor System Stock Assessment (MSSA). The webinar presented information on the study’s objectives, sample design, and the beginning of recruitment. In order to benchmark the region’s industrial energy efficiency work and support Northwest resource and energy efficiency…
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Luminaire Level Lighting Controls: 2025 Review of Key Assumptions
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) contracted with Cadmus to conduct a review of key assumptions underlying the savings and cost effectiveness calculations for its Luminaire Level Lighting Controls (LLLC) program. The study focused on evaluating the LLLC program’s estimates of qualified-product market share, using aggregated and anonymized manufacturer sales data and utility incentive data.…
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2023 Residential Laundry Field Study
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) contracted with Kannah Consulting to conduct the 2023 Laundry Field Study, which supplements NEEA’s 2022 Residential Building Stock Assessment (RBSA). The report documents a field study designed to capture typical home laundry equipment characteristics, record consumers’ laundry processing behavior, and collect real-time clothes washer and dryer energy data from homes across the Northwest, deepening NEEA’s understanding of household energy use…
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Codes Market Progress Evaluation Report #6
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) contracted with NMR Group, Inc. (NMR) to conduct the sixth Market Progress Evaluation Report (MPER) for its commercial and residential codes efforts. The evaluation examined NEEA’s influence on code development and adoption in the Northwest, NEEA-supported energy code-related training and education efforts, and market actor use of software tools for code compliance assessment. Between November 2024 and September 2025, NMR compiled and analyzed information from…
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Low-Load Efficient Heat Pump Investigation: 2020 – 2025 Summary Report
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance’s (NEEA) Advanced Heat Pump program is working to transform the market for high efficiency residential heat pumps. A key focus for the program is improving product differentiation so consumers and industry professionals can easily identify systems that deliver cost-effective performance to make more informed purchase decisions. One important differentiator the…
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Stand-Alone Fan Manufacturer Representative & Specifier Market Activity Research
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) contracted with DNV Energy Insights, Inc. (DNV) to conduct a market research study on the specification and sales practices for stand-alone commercial and industrial fans as part of NEEA’s Efficient Fans program. The study sought to understand and document communication patterns, decision-making dynamics, and how well program terminology aligns with market language. Between May and July 2025, DNV reviewed relevant documents and materials, followed by primary data collection through in-depth interviews with 20 manufacturers’ representatives and specifying engineers active in the Northwest commercial…
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Idaho 2018 Commercial New Construction Code Compliance Evaluation
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) contracted with Opinion Dynamics to conduct the Idaho 2018 Commercial New Construction Code Compliance Evaluation to assess the paths by which, and degree to which, code compliance is achieved with the 2018 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) in newly constructed commercial buildings in Idaho. The study focused on the state’s amended 2018 IECC from the time it went into effect on January…
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Agricultural Pump Market Research
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) contracted with Resource Innovations to conduct a market research study that explored the applicability of current Extended Motor Products (XMP) – Pumps program knowledge and intervention activities to the Northwest agricultural irrigation pump market. Between January and September 2025, Resource Innovations conducted a review of relevant documents and materials, followed by primary data collection through in-depth interviews with manufacturers’ representatives, specifying engineers, contractors, and end-users of agricultural pumps…
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NEEA Code Baseline and Assumption Review
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) contracted with Industrial Economics, Incorporated (IEc) and Resource Refocus to conduct a review of its Natural Market Baselines for commercial and residential energy codes in the Northwest. Based on findings from interviews with individuals familiar with Northwest and national building energy code development and a review of codes savings evaluation approaches from across the country, IEc and Resource Refocus concluded that NEEA’s…
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Commercial HVAC Specifier Market Research: Gas High Efficiency DOAS
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) contracted with OWL Research Partners to conduct market research with commercial HVAC specifiers to inform NEEA’s understanding of the market for gas high-performance HVAC systems. Data collected in summer 2025 explored opportunities and barriers for adding gas to NEEA’s High-Performance HVAC program, characterized the market landscape, and assessed specifiers’ perceptions of system configurations in hypothetical scenarios aligned with the program’s targeted approach. The study found that…
Commercial + Industrial|Natural Gas