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  • Northwest Ductless Heat Pump Pilot Project Report #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.

    Residential
  • 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…

    Residential
  • 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…

    Residential
  • Long-Term Monitoring and Tracking Report on 2010 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)…

    Commercial + Industrial
  • 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. 

    Residential
  • Long-Term Monitoring and Tracking Report on 2007

    The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) tracks the market progress of its projects during their implementation phase through periodic Market Progress Assessment Reports (MPERs). However, since market diffusion often occurs after NEEA funding has ceased, NEEA also needs a mechanism for tracking ongoing market progress in the post-funding period so that it can verify key…

    Commercial + Industrial|Residential
  • 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…

    Commercial + Industrial|Residential
  • Evaluation of the Industrial Efficiency Alliance (IEA) Report #4

    This is the fourth Market Progress Evaluation Report (MPER) on the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance’s (NEEA’s) Industrial Efficiency Alliance (IEA). The conclusions and recommendations presented in this report are based on evaluation data collected from site visits, interviews with industrial end users, market partners, and training participants.

    Commercial + Industrial
  • Residential New Construction (Single and Multi-Family) Billing Analysis

    One of the objectives of the 2006 Residential New Construction Characteristics and Practices Study was to characterize the overall energy usage of these buildings.  This short report discusses the methodology used to collect and analyze the data to estimate annual energy usage.  Billing data reflected in this report represents data captured over a 16-month period…

    Residential
  • 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…

    Residential

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