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ENERGY STAR Consumer Products Report No. 3
The ENERGY STAR® Consumer Products project is designed to increase the market share of energy efficient lighting products and appliances in the region. The 2004—2006 project specifically focused on compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) and ultra-high efficiency (UHE) clothes washers. This report is the final evaluation of the project’s accomplishments during that period. The project has…
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Single Family Residential New Construction Characteristics and Practices Study
This document is the final report for the Residential New Construction Baseline Study. The study was sponsored by the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance, with additional sample points contributed by the Energy Trust of Oregon, Eugene Water and Electric Board, Tacoma Power, and Idaho Power. The study was conducted by RLW and Ecos Consulting. This is…
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ENERGY STAR Homes Northwest Program Report #3
ENERGY STAR Homes Northwest promotes the construction and sale of new homes built to the ENERGY STAR Homes Northwest specification, which was designed specifically for the states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana. Homes built to this specification are at least 15 percent more energy efficient than Washington and Oregon State energy codes. These ENERGY…
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Residential Lighting Program Report No. 3
This report is the final market progress evaluation report (MPER) of the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance’s (the Alliance’s) ENERGY STAR Residential Lighting Program (Lighting Program). The Lighting Program promotes residential lighting products that meet ENERGY STAR technical lighting specifications and are labeled with the ENERGY STAR logo. Targeted lighting technologies include screw-based compact fluorescent lamps…
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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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Commercial Windows Initiative Market Progress Evaluation Report #2
The Commercial Windows Initiative (CWI), a project developed and implemented by the West Wall Group (WWG), worked with fenestration market participants from virtually every facet of the market. They worked with manufacturers of commercial windows and window components. CWI reached architects, specifiers, designers and developers to boost demand and market share for energy-efficient, factory-built commercial…
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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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ENERGY STAR Consumer Products Report
This document is the executive summary of the first Market Progress Evaluation Report (MPER 1) for the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance’s (Alliance) ENERGY STAR® Consumer Products project. The project officially launched in early 2004 and was recently extended through 2006. The report documents the results of evaluation activities conducted from September 2004 to May 2005.…
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ENERGY STAR Homes Northwest Program Report No. 2
This report is the second of three market progress evaluation reports (MPERs) of the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance’s ENERGY STAR Homes Northwest program. This project is one of two major projects within the Alliance’s Residential Sector Initiative and works in close coordination with the Alliance’s ENERGY STAR Consumer Products program – the other project included…
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Codes Market Progress Evaluation Report #1
In early 2004, the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance documented its efforts to support energy codes and to participate in the federal standards setting process through 2003. That report and its up-to-date record of code efforts were used as the starting point for this evaluation. Later in 2004, The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance engaged Quantec, LLC,…
Regional Studies|Residential|Residential Buildings