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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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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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