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  • Strategic Energy Management

    Rooted in Innovation: How the Northwest Created the National Strategic Energy Management Movement For nearly two decades, NEEA has pioneered and advanced strategic energy management (SEM), the continuous energy efficiency improvement process for commercial and industrial buildings. Using a structured approach developed by the alliance, SEM drives deep, lasting change in the ways businesses manage…

    Commercial|Industrial|Strategic Energy Management
  • Q2 2025 CICC Meeting Notes

    The Commercial & Industrial Coordinating Committee (CICC) held its second quarterly meeting of 2025 on May 13. Topics included an update on NEEA’s Efficient Fan’s Program Updates and a funder Round Robin where CICC members shared the latest news and key programmatic updates for their respective organizations.

    Commercial|Industrial
  • Q2 2025 Emerging Technology Newsletter

    The Q2 2025 Emerging Technology Newsletter highlights several exciting developments and updates of NEEA’s emerging technology efforts. Final reports are available for commercial heat pump dyers and residential heat pump rating representativeness studies. Look for final reports soon on the residential laundry field study, low load efficient heat pump investigation, tri-mode heat pump study, skinny…

    Commercial|Industrial|Products|Residential|Technology
  • Q1 2025 Emerging Technology Newsletter

    Welcome to 2025. This quarterly Emerging Technology update will highlight laundry products. As part of its long history with consumer products, NEEA started working on residential clothes dryers many years before ENERGY STAR® added that category. NEEA staff continue to explore innovations in laundry technology including residential and commercial heat pump dryers, all-in-one combination washers and dryers, and…

    Commercial|Industrial|Products|Residential|Technology
  • Q1 2024 Emerging Technology Newsletter

    2024 is off to a strong start for the Emerging Technology team. In addition to the progress on existing efforts, several new projects got underway including testing of commercial heat pump dryers, a commercial secondary window field study in collaboration with the California Energy Commission, participation in the development of vacuum insulated panels for easy exterior building retrofits,…

    Commercial|Commercial Buildings|Consumer Products|Heating and Cooling|Industrial|Natural Gas|Products|Residential|Residential Buildings|Technology
  • IDL Series – Washington State University

    Understanding the workforce landscape for industrialized construction products and practices The industrialized construction sector is rapidly growing in the PNW, and it has the potential for energy, time, cost, and carbon savings. The ID+CL will present a large mixed methods research study, which was conducted with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Dodge Construction.…

    Industrial|New Construction
  • Fan Systems Market Characterization

    The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance’s (NEEA) Efficient Fans program aims to increase awareness, visibility, and market adoption of more efficient fan products. NEEA contracted with DNV Energy Insights USA, Inc. (DNV), to conduct this Market Characterization study, which focused specifically on understanding efficient fan system products that are not embedded in larger equipment (“non-embedded fan…

    Commercial|Industrial|Products
  • Fan Manufacturer Regional Market Share Research

    The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) contracted with DNV Energy Insights, Inc. (DNV), to conduct market research on non-embedded or stand-alone fan systems in the Northwest. The study sought to assess the distribution and general characteristics of sales across manufacturers active in the market to inform program planning and support the precision of future savings…

    Agricultural|Commercial|Industrial|Products
  • Extended Motor Products Variable Load Baseline and Constant-Load to Variable Load Savings Key Assumptions Review

    The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) contracted with Apex Analytics LLC to review NEEA’s baseline assumptions and savings calculation approach for variable speed pumps, which are part of the Extended Motor Products (XMP) Market Transformation program. The study reviewed NEEA’s approach to estimating a natural market baseline for adoption of variable speed pumps and its…

    Commercial|Industrial|Products
  • Commercial Secondary Windows Field Observations and Decision-Maker Interviews Report

    The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) contracted with Energy 350 to observe and document the installation of commercial secondary windows (CSWs) at several commercial sites across the Northwest states of Montana, Oregon and Washington. CSWs are a window attachment product with insulative and noise abatement benefits that are designed to address existing low-performing windows in…

    Commercial|Commercial Buildings|Industrial

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