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  • Q3 2025 Emerging Technology Newsletter

    The Q3 2025 Emerging Technology Newsletter showcases a range of impactful work led by NEEA’s emerging technology and product management team. Some key activities include:  Future newsletters will include links to the reports and activities above as they become available on neea.org.   NEEA staff scan for new emerging technologies for all sectors and end uses.…

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    Commercial + Industrial|Industrial|Products|Residential|Technology

  • Air Compressors Standard Evaluation

    The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) contracted with Michaels Energy from December 2024 to July 2025 to assess NEEA and its partners’ influence on the federal standard for Industrial Air Compressors. The evaluation included a review of rulemaking documents and interviews with key stakeholders. Findings show that NEEA and its partners’ activities, including participation in…

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  • Q2 2025 RETAC Meeting Notes

    The Regional Emerging Technology Advisory Committee (RETAC) held their second quarterly meeting of 2025 on June 18th. Topics include a committee “round robin” discussion of energy efficiency initiatives within the region, and an open discussion from members who attended the recent Hot Water-Hot Air Forum and Efficiency Exchange conferences.

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    Commercial + Industrial|Industrial|Residential|Technology

  • Calculating In Situ Fan Energy Index

    As part of its Efficient Fans program, the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) contracted with Cascade Energy to conduct this research to gain additional insights into how energy-efficient fan systems perform in practice by comparing design-point Fan Energy Index (FEI) values with in field (in situ) performance outcomes. FEI is a standardized, unitless, design point…

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    Commercial + Industrial|Industrial|Products

  • 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…

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  • Q2 2025 CICC Meeting Notes

    The Commercial & Industrial Coordinating Committee (CICC) held its second quarterly meeting of 2025 on May 13. Topics included a presentation on – How the Luminaire Level Lighting Controls Program leverages Champions, funder Round Robin where CICC members shared the latest news and key programmatic updates for their respective organizations and regional priority check in…

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    Commercial + Industrial|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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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,…

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    Commercial + Industrial|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.…

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    Industrial|New Construction

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