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Northwest Ductless Heat Pump Pilot Project: Report #1
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) hired the team of Ecotope, Inc., working with Research Into Action, Inc., to evaluate the Northwest Ductless Heat Pump Pilot Project. This document provides an assessment of the pilot’s market progress and processes. The pilot implementation document specifies four primary goals, listed below with our key findings.
Consumer Products|Heating and Cooling|Residential|Residential Buildings -
Long Term Monitoring and Tracking Report on 2007
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) tracks the market progress of its projects during their implementation phase through periodic Market Progress Assessment Reports (MPERs). However, since market diffusion often occurs after NEEA funding has ceased, NEEA also needs a mechanism for tracking ongoing market progress in the post-funding period so that it can verify key…
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Ductless Heat Pump Market Research and Analysis
The U.S. DHP market differs significantly from overseas markets. Almost all residential HVAC systems in Asia and a vast majority of systems in Europe are ductless, while only a small percentage of homes in the U.S. utilize DHP technology. Slower U.S. adoption rates can be explained partly by cultural differences and partly by differences in…
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Evaluation of the Industrial Efficiency Alliance (IEA) Report #4
This is the fourth Market Progress Evaluation Report (MPER) on the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance’s (NEEA’s) Industrial Efficiency Alliance (IEA). The conclusions and recommendations presented in this report are based on evaluation data collected from site visits, interviews with industrial end users, market partners, and training participants.
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Residential New Construction (Single and Multi-Family) Billing Analysis
One of the objectives of the 2006 Residential New Construction Characteristics and Practices Study was to characterize the overall energy usage of these buildings. This short report discusses the methodology used to collect and analyze the data to estimate annual energy usage. Billing data reflected in this report represents data captured over a 16-month period…
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Residential Water Heater Market 2006
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (Alliance) embarked upon this study of the water heater market with a desire to capture information from two different perspectives. The first is to provide a supply-side market characterization of the Northwest region’s residential water heater market with insights into how the market differs from the national market. The second…
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Analysis of Heat Pump Installation Practices and Performance
In 2004, a consortium of entities active in the conservation of energy in the Pacific Northwest, including the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (Alliance), the Energy Trust of Oregon (Trust), the Northwest Power and Conservation Council (NPCC), Idaho Power and other regional utilities funded an indepth study of heat pump performance…
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Light Commercial HVAC Market Assessment
A market characterization study was completed for light commercial (< 25 tons)1 HVAC equipment in the Pacific Northwest2. The objective was to develop a better understanding of the supplyside of the light commercial market, and specifically identify the key players, relationships, and approximate market size. The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (Alliance) expressed an interest in…
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Light Commercial HVAC
A market characterization study was completed for light commercial (< 25 tons)1 HVAC equipment in the Pacific Northwest. The objective was to develop a better understanding of the supply side of the light commercial market, and specifically identify the key players, relationships, and approximate market size. The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (Alliance) expressed an interest…
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Long Term Monitoring and Tracking Report on 2005 Activities
Market transformation projects are long-term in nature. The development and launching of new products and services can be visualized as an “S” shaped diffusion curve with little market impact in the initial years and the major market effects occurring many years after a product is launched. The market progress of Alliance projects is tracked during…
Commercial|Heating and Cooling|Industrial|Regional Studies|Technology