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Northwest Ductless Heat Pump Initiative 2010 Market Progress Evaluation Report #1
This market progress evaluation report (MPER) describes the progress, accomplishments, and challenges of the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance’s (NEEA) 2010 Northwest Ductless Heat Pump (DHP) Initiative. The initiative began in 2010, following a pilot phase that launched in October of 2008. Both the pilot and the initiative share the goal of promoting the displacement of…
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Northwest Ductless Heat Pump Pilot Project No. 2
This document constitutes the second market progress evaluation report (MPER) of the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance’s (NEEA) Northwest Ductless Heat Pump Pilot Project, which ran from October 2008 to December 2009. This MPER reports on the pilot project’s accomplishments and is part of comprehensive research underway on DHP technical performance and market acceptance. Since the…
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Ductless Heat Pump Impact & Process Evaluation: Lab-Testing Report
NEEA hired the team of Ecotope, Inc., supported by Research Into Action, Inc., Stellar Processes, and Herrick Labs, to evaluate the Northwest Ductless Heat Pump Pilot Project. The pilot project ran from October 2008 to December 2009. The DHP Pilot Project sought to displace energy used by zonal electric heating equipment, with DHPs. The DHP…
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Northwest Ductless Heat Pump Pilot Project: Report #1
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) hired the team of Ecotope, Inc., working with Research Into Action, Inc., to evaluate the Northwest Ductless Heat Pump Pilot Project. This document provides an assessment of the pilot’s market progress and processes. The pilot implementation document specifies four primary goals, listed below with our key findings.
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Ductless Heat Pump Market Research and Analysis
The U.S. DHP market differs significantly from overseas markets. Almost all residential HVAC systems in Asia and a vast majority of systems in Europe are ductless, while only a small percentage of homes in the U.S. utilize DHP technology. Slower U.S. adoption rates can be explained partly by cultural differences and partly by differences in…
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Residential Water Heater Market 2006
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (Alliance) embarked upon this study of the water heater market with a desire to capture information from two different perspectives. The first is to provide a supply-side market characterization of the Northwest region’s residential water heater market with insights into how the market differs from the national market. The second…
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Analysis of Heat Pump Installation Practices and Performance
In 2004, a consortium of entities active in the conservation of energy in the Pacific Northwest, including the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (Alliance), the Energy Trust of Oregon (Trust), the Northwest Power and Conservation Council (NPCC), Idaho Power and other regional utilities funded an indepth study of heat pump performance…
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Ground-Source Heat Pump Market Assessment
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (Alliance) has sponsored this market assessment and characterization of residential ground source heat pumps (GSHPs) in the Pacific Northwest. The Alliance does not currently provide financial support to projects dealing with residential ground source heat pumps. In order for the Alliance to consider such programs in the future, this objective…
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Impacts of Forced Air Distribution Systems on Homes and Potential for Improvements
This literature review is part of a duct efficiency pilot program co-sponsored by the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance [NEEA] and the Electric Power Research Institute [EPRI]. A literature search was conducted by Washington State University Cooperative Extension Service Energy Library. In addition to articles identified by the library, project staff in Oregon and Washington contributed…
Commercial Buildings|Heating and Cooling|Regional Studies|Residential