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Flathead Electric & BPA
Building a smart grid the cooperative way Tucked in the mountains of Glacier Country in Northwest Montana, Flathead Valley’s grand landscapes and unspoiled freshwater lake attract recreationalists year-round. Legendary, small-town hospitality appears even in unexpected ways — like the local electric cooperative’s participation in the Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project. With 48,000 members, Flathead…
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Northwest Ductless Heat Pump Initiative: Market Progress Evaluation Report 6
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) engaged Cadmus in November 2016 to conduct the sixth market progress evaluation report (MPER 6) for NEEA’s Northwest Ductless Heat Pump Initiative (initiative). The initiative, which NEEA launched as a pilot in 2008 and at full scale in 2010, encompasses a range of activities to accelerate the adoption of…
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2016-2017 Northwest Residential Lighting Long-Term Monitoring and Tracking Study
The study tracks trends in sales shares and pricing of efficient residential lighting technologies, and key market developments, including federal legislation impacting residential lighting products. The study provides NEEA and the region’s utilities with robust data on market status, and insights that residential lighting program planners and managers will find informative in their ongoing consideration…
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Energy Efficiency Test Procedure for Residential Clothes Dryers
This document describes a clothes dryer laboratory test procedure used to calculate an accurate metric for clothes dryer energy use. The procedure describes the different cycles, settings, clothing types and equipment needed to generate the combined energy metric referred to as the Utility Combined Energy Factor (UCEF). The resulting UCEF is based on the field…
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Retail Product Portfolio Market Test Assessment
This report presents findings from the Market Test Assessment (MTA) of the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance’s (NEEA’s) Retail Products Portfolio (RPP) initiative.
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Northwest Heat Pump Water Heater Initiative Market Progress Evaluation Report #3
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) contracted with Cadeo and Research Into Action (the team) in October 2016 to complete the third Market Progress Evaluation Report (MPER) of its Heat Pump Water Heater (HPWH) Initiative. The overarching goal of the initiative is to create a federal standard for electric water heaters greater than 45 gallons…
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Interaction between Heat Pump Water Heaters and Heating System
Water heating represents approximately 18 percent of residential energy consumption annually. Heat pump water heaters (HPWHs) offer an efficient option for residential water heating, because they have the ability to reduce water heating energy consumption by up to 63 percent. To achieve such high efficiencies, HPWHs employ a refrigeration cycle to move heat from the…
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Consumer and dealer research on energy efficiency in manufactured homes
The business objective of this initiative is to advance the voluntary energy efficiency standard to which NW manufacturers homes must be built. Also, to provide manufacturers and retailers actionable information to change how home buyers set value for manufactured homes and to drive purchases of homes that have more expensive energy efficiency configurations – i.e.…
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Marketing Message Testing for SuperEfficient-Dryers
BACKGROUND NEEA’s Super-Efficient Dryer (SED) team is preparing to implement an in-store market test. Part of the test includes providing marketing collateral that will be used to address the barrier of consumer awareness and interest in SEDs. Five different marketing message concepts were created based on previous consumer research. The concepts include: an image, a…
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