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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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Washington Residential Energy Code Compliance
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) contracted with The Cadmus Group, Inc. (Cadmus) to conduct a study of residential energy code compliance in the state of Washington. This effort to measure compliance has roots in the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), which provided funding to states, contingent upon a commitment to adopt the…
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Northwest Ductless Heat Pump Initiative: Market Progress Evaluation Report #2
This report is the second Market Progress Evaluation Report (MPER) of the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance’s (NEEA’s) Northwest Ductless Heat Pump (DHP) Initiative. This report presents evaluation findings based on telephone surveys of households that purchased DHPs through the Initiative and other general population households, and also in-depth interviews with Northwest utilities that support the…
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2011 Residential Codes Energy Use Savings
Over the past thirty-plus years, the Pacific Northwest has successfully pursued state residential energy codes and building programs to create ever more efficient housing. Since its inception, NEEA has played a pivotal role in aiding states to deliver more effective and efficient energy codes. Under the Residential Codes – Energy Use Savings contract to NEEA,…
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2011 Water Heater Market Update Appendix
Appendix A. Glossary
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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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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)…
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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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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…
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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…
Commercial Buildings|Heating and Cooling|Residential