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Water Heater Flexible Load Conformance White Paper
Utilities have used residential loads for providing grid services to utility customers for decades, particularly for demand response. However, the number of customers participating in such programs remains low. New Flexible Load Management strategies for providing grid services have the potential to accelerate customer participation. Efforts to improve customer participation and experience will result in…
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Independent Assessment of NEEA Approaches to Estimating Influence Over State Energy Codes
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) contracted with NMR Group to conduct a review of several alternative approaches to evaluating NEEA’s influence on the outcomes of state energy code processes in the Northwest. The objective of this assessment was to support NEEA in identifying ways to assess its codes efforts that more accurately document and…
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Refrigerator Policy and Test Procedures: Rationale and Benefits for a Move Towards IEC
In 2019, the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) began testing residential refrigerator-freezers to better understand the potential energy efficiency benefits of inverter-driven, multi-speed compressors and quantify if the existing U.S. Department of Energy (U.S. DOE) testing methodology adequately captures those potential benefits. Currently, the U.S. DOE test methodology does not entirely align with the test…
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Advanced Water Heating Specification
This document succeeds the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance’s (NEEA’s) previous Advanced Water Heating Specification (AWHS Version 8.0). This version includes substantial updates to Chapters 2 and 3. For residential water heaters, demand response requirements are met through OpenADR Alliance’s EcoPort certification, split-systems are qualifiable for interior and/or exterior applications, and Plug-ins will be evaluated with…
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Idaho, Montana, and Oregon Residential Energy Code Savings Analysis
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) contracted with Ecotope to conduct an analysis of Idaho, Montana, and Oregon energy codes. The study sought to quantify the energy use, energy savings and incremental costs for residential code improvements previously adopted in these states using evaluation procedures aligned with previous protocols for estimating code stringency. Ecotope compared…
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Idaho Residential Code Compliance Evaluation
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) contracted with Industrial Economics, Incorporated (IEc) and Resource Refocus to conduct a residential code compliance evaluation in Idaho that examined new construction single family homes built under the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) 2018 with Idaho amendments. The evaluation looked at whole-home and measure-level compliance with the code, opportunities…
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Non-Weatherized and Mobile Home Gas Furnaces Standard Evaluation
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) contracted with Michaels Energy to assess NEEA and its partners’ influence on the federal standard for Non-Weatherized and Mobile Home Gas Furnaces. NEEA engages in state and federal standards processes to support the adoption of standards that advance the efficiency of equipment and appliances available in the market. Between…
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High-Performance Residential Windows Market Share Study
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) collaborated with Minnesota Center for Energy and the Environment (MNCEE) to complete a market sizing study, which is a standard deliverable in the early phase of all NEEA Market Transformation programs. In particular, the study sought to estimate: 1) the number of residential windows sold in the Northwest from…
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Heat Pump Water Heaters
An Established Approach to Create Lasting Change Since 2005, NEEA has worked to permanently advance the heat pump water heater (HPWH) market using a proven, holistic approach to Market Transformation. Through this unique and established process, Northwest utilities, manufacturers and energy efficiency organizations work together to bring energy-efficient technologies to the Northwest market and create…
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Consumer Product Manufacturer & Retailer Sustainability Goal Literature Review
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance’s (NEEA) Retail Product Portfolio (RPP) is a midstream retail program that partners with utilities, large retailers and manufacturers around the country to offer midstream sales incentives for a portfolio of consumer products. These incentives help to influence corporate retail buyers’ purchase decisions and encourage the purchasing, stocking and promotion of…
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