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Agricultural Irrigation Initiative: Using Soil Electrical Conductivity Mapping for Precision Irrigation in the Columbia Basin
Variable Rate Irrigation (VRI) and Variable Speed Irrigation (VSI) applications require accurate maps of soil water-holding capacity as inputs to the applied water prescription generation process. Thus, determining accurate soil variability information and conducting soil mapping are necessary steps toward successful implementation of precision irrigation.2 These accuracy requirements are typically not satisfied by freely-available soil…
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Agricultural Irrigation Initiative: The Future of Agricultural Irrigation
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) launched the Agricultural Irrigation Initiative with the goal of reducing agricultural irrigation energy use by twenty percent by 2020 NEEA is an alliance funded by more than 140 utilities and energy efficiency organizations in Idaho, Oregon, Montana, and Washington working to accelerate the innovation and adoption of energy-efficient products,…
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Agricultural Irrigation Initiative: Soil Science and the Basics of Irrigation Management
This report is designed as a companion to the other reports in the series based on the activities in the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance’s (NEEA’s) Agricultural Irrigation Initiative. NEEA is an alliance funded by more than 140 utilities and energy efficiency organizations in Idaho, Oregon, Montana, and Washington working to accelerate the innovation and adoption…
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Industrial Facilities Site Assessment
In 2014, NEEA released the Industrial Facilities Site Assessment (IFSA), the first region-wide study of energy use characteristics of industrial facilities in the Northwest. The region’s utilities and power planning organizations can use these results to identify program opportunities and for energy-use planning. In addition, the region’s industrial concerns will be able to use summary…
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2014 IFSA Appendices
Cadmus developed a sampling plan and a dataset of sampled facilities for assessment and verification in order to conduct the NEEA Industrial Facility Site Assessment.
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2014 IFSA Final Report
In March 2013, the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) commissioned Cadmus and subcontractors Energy350 and Nexant (hereafter known as the Cadmus team) to conduct the Industrial Facility Site Assessment (IFSA). The primary goal of the IFSA was to obtain end-use energy consumption data for the Northwest industrial population. The IFSA was intended to provide: (1)…
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Database of Northwest Manufacturers, Nurseries, and Wineries
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Northwest Agricultural Irrigation Market Characterization and Baseline Study
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) is a non-profit organization working to accelerate energy efficiency to meet our future energy needs. NEEA is supported by and works in partnership with Bonneville Power Administration, Energy Trust of Oregon and more than 100 Northwest utilities for the benefit of more than 12 million energy consumers.
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Strategic Energy Management Market Assessment Study: Dairies, Irrigators, and Nurseries
For the current funding cycle (2010 to 2014), the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance’s (NEEA) Industrial Sector will target new markets in the Northwest region. NEEA engaged Market Strategies to conduct a research study to establish a baseline of Strategic Energy Management (SEM) practices in the new markets of interest in order to compare against future…
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Opportunities for Industrial Motor Systems in the Pacific Northwest
The motor energy consumption in the PNW is concentrated in a handful of large motor energy-using sectors. There are 11 that together consume most (over 90%) of the motor and motor systems energy in the PNW. Three of these – Pulp and Paper, Irrigation, and Chemicals – together consume over 50%.
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