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Exploring the Consumer Path-To Purchase for New Construction Homes
The Next Step Home (NSH) initiative designs & implements market interventions that will remove barriers that impede builders from using integrated design to build more efficient homes. One barrier that has been identified by the initiative team is lack of purchaser awareness. This project is focused on understanding the new home purchaser in a way…
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Clothing Wear and Tear of Heat Pump vs. Electric Clothes Dryers with Addendum
Heat pump clothes dryers are significantly more energy efficient than conventional (ENERGY STAR®) electric resistance clothes dryers. The goal of this project was to determine whether heat pump clothes dryers offer non-energy benefits—specifically, reduced clothing wear and tear—that could help consumer adoption. Multiple machine types ran over 100 dryer cycles, using loads specifically chosen to…
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Exploring The Consumer Value Proposition For Super-Efficient Dryer
NEEA’s Super-Efficient Dryers initiative team has a number of market interventions aimed at removing barriers that enable manufacturers and retailers to accelerate the rate of adoption of SEDs in the Northwest region (OR, WA, ID & MT).
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Electric Motors Standard Evaluation
NEEA contracted with Cadmus to evaluate the effectiveness of NEEA’s efforts during the rulemaking process for the amended federal electric motors standard and the impact of all energy efficiency stakeholders on the final rule.
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Codes Market Progress Evaluation Report #4
This is the 4th Market Progress Evaluation Report (MPER) of the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) Codes Program. Since 1997, NEEA has conducted activities to support building energy codes and has funded several studies of these activities. In 2010 and 2011, Cadmus researched the program’s code support activities, logic model, and the building codes market.…
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Revising the TV Energy Use Test Procedure: Incorporating HDR and other Needed Changes
The measurement method of television energy consumption has been largely consistent within the United States for the last decade. TVs have improved remarkably in energy efficiency during that time. It is important to understand how much of those apparent energy savings are the result of fundamental improvements to TV technology itself versus optimizing how TVs…
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Energy Efficiency Financing: Barriers and Opportunities in the Small Utility Market
High upfront costs and a lack of easily accessible financing are key barriers to investments in energy efficiency (EE). This report assessed EE financing barriers and opportunities for small utilities, relying on interviews, literature reviews and case studies. Key barriers identified include: lack of staff time, lack of access to low-cost capital, and inability to…
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2015-2016 Northwest Residential Lighting Long-Term Market Tracking Study
The sections below provide a brief project history, an overview of the 2015-2016 Residential Lighting Long-Term Market Tracking Study, summary of conclusions, and recommendations.
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Northwest Heat Pump Water Heater Initiative Market Progress Evaluation Report #2
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) engaged Evergreen Economics in August 2015 to conduct the second Market Progress Evaluation for NEEA’s Heat Pump Water Heater (HPWH) Initiative, also known as the Hot Water Solutions Program.
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HPWH Lab Report_AO Smith_HPTU_12.09.2015
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) contracted with Ecotope, Inc. and Cascade Engineering Services, Inc. to conduct a laboratory assessment of the A. O. Smith HPTU Series heat pump water heaters (HPWHs) for northern climate installations. Cascade Engineering evaluated the HPTU Series using a testing plan developed by Ecotope to assess HPWH performance.
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