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Long-Term Monitoring and Tracking Distribution Efficiency
This report documents Navigant Consulting, Inc.’s (Navigant’s) research into the current status of distribution efficiency (DE) in the Pacific Northwest (PNW). It provides a market characterization of the breadth and depth of DE activity based on a sample of utilities within the PNW and an assessment of the applicability of tools available to utilities in…
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Seattle LED Adaptive Lighting Study
The Northwest region operates approximately 1.7 million streetlights consuming an approximate average 150 MW. The City of Seattle has been actively converting its existing High Pressure Sodium (HPS) street lighting to light emitting diode (LED) lighting. The City reduced energy consumption by more than forty percent through this process (Smalley 2012). LED streetlights, coupled with…
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Variable Rate Rooftop Unit Test
Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA), the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), New Buildings Institute (NBI), and the University of Idaho Integrated Design Laboratory (IDL) collaborated to measure the energy performance of higher-efficiency-rated products in the unitary, vapor-compression, direct-expansion (DX) package rooftop unit (RTU) class of commercial building heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) equipment. The project sought…
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Emerging Technology Dryer Testing
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) contracted Ecova to conduct laboratory testing of the 2013 Environmental Protection Agency Emerging Technology Awardee for clothes dryers. The purpose was to determine if the dryer’s success meeting the Emerging Technology specification would translate into success with the recent Energy Star specification, and how the dryer would perform when…
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Laboratory Assessment of Sanden GES-15QTA Heat Pump Water Heater
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) contracted with Ecotope, Inc. and Cascade Engineering Services, Inc. to conduct a laboratory assessment of the Sanden model # GES- 15QTA heat pump water heater (HPWH) for northern climate installations. The testing plan included observing heat pump efficiency atlower ambient temperatures (30° F, 50° F, and 67° F); conducting…
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Energy Baseline Methodologies for Industrial Facilities
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) contracted with EnerNOC Utility Solutions to provide definition to the process for establishing and documenting energy baselines for industrial facilities. Energy baselines are foundational to a robust energy management program, however, industrial facility energy baseline methodologies are neither well known nor consistently implemented. The paper describes a straightforward six-step…
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Inventory of Commercial Energy Management and Information Systems (EMIS) for M&V Applications Final Report
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) contracted with Portland Energy Conservation, Inc. (PECI) to help provide clarity on the range of Commercial Energy Management and Information Systems (EMIS) available and their respective feature sets. EMIS are software tools that store, analyze, and display energy use or building systems data. A wide variety of EMIS is…
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Direct Savings From 2011 Integrated Design Lab Projects
The purpose of this study is to estimate the direct savings resulting from the Integrated Design Labs’ (IDLs) design assistance services provided for new construction or existing building retrofit projects completed in 2011.
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Long-Term Monitoring and Tracking Report on 2011 Activities
Market transformation initiatives, by their nature, create change over the long term. An S-shaped diffusion curve can represent the developing and launching of new products and services, which have relatively little market impact in the initial years, and the major market effects occurring several years after the initiative’s launch. The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA)…
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NEEA Market Progress Evaluation Report #4: 80 PLUS
The 80 PLUS program certifies energy-efficient power supplies for desktop personal computers (PCs) and servers. As a sponsor of 80 PLUS from 2004 to 2011, the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) provided financial incentives to computer manufacturers for commercial sales of desktop PCs and servers incorporating 80 PLUS certified power supplies within the Northwest region.…
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