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Q4 2025 Emerging Technology Newsletter
The Q4 2025 Emerging Technology Newsletter showcases a range of impactful work led by the emerging technology and product management team at NEEA. Some key activities include: Future quarterly newsletters will include status updates and links to published reports on the activities above as they become available. NEEA staff scan for new emerging technologies for…
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Q3 2025 Emerging Technology Newsletter
The Q3 2025 Emerging Technology Newsletter showcases a range of impactful work led by NEEA’s emerging technology and product management team. Some key activities include: Future newsletters will include links to the reports and activities above as they become available on neea.org. NEEA staff scan for new emerging technologies for all sectors and end uses.…
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Q2 2025 Emerging Technology Newsletter
The Q2 2025 Emerging Technology Newsletter highlights several exciting developments and updates of NEEA’s emerging technology efforts. Final reports are available for commercial heat pump dyers and residential heat pump rating representativeness studies. Look for final reports soon on the residential laundry field study, low load efficient heat pump investigation, tri-mode heat pump study, skinny…
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ENERGY STAR® Windows, Doors, & Skylights Version 7.0 Evaluation
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) contracted with Apex Analytics in 2024 to evaluate what impact, if any, NEEA had on the updated ENERGY STAR Windows, Doors, & Skylights Version 7.0 specification. This evaluation considered both NEEA’s formal engagement in the specification review process and NEEA staff members’ engagement with the market more broadly. Apex…
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Q1 2025 Emerging Technology Newsletter
Welcome to 2025. This quarterly Emerging Technology update will highlight laundry products. As part of its long history with consumer products, NEEA started working on residential clothes dryers many years before ENERGY STAR® added that category. NEEA staff continue to explore innovations in laundry technology including residential and commercial heat pump dryers, all-in-one combination washers and dryers, and…
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Q4 2024 Emerging Technology Newsletter
NEEA’s Emerging Technology team is concluding a successful 2024 with the completion of several key projects, including: The launch of a long-awaited field study on Luminaire Level Lighting Controls (LLLC) combined with HVAC control in a commercial building constitute a highlight of the year. Led by Senior Product Manager Chris Wolgamott, this study, delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic,…
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Q2 2024 Emerging Technology Newsletter
Our Emerging Technology efforts are well underway this year. The U.S. Department of Energy (U.S. DOE) announced two major initiatives in early April 2024. As part of its new Better Building Initiatives, the U.S. DOE announced the Better Buildings Commercial Building Heat Pump Accelerator to improve the efficiency and availability of commercial heat pump rooftop units. U.S. DOE’s…
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High-Performance Residential Windows Market Share Study
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) collaborated with Minnesota Center for Energy and the Environment (MNCEE) to complete a market sizing study, which is a standard deliverable in the early phase of all NEEA Market Transformation programs. In particular, the study sought to estimate: 1) the number of residential windows sold in the Northwest from…
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Q1 2024 Market Research and Evaluation Newsletter
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance’s (NEEA) Market Research & Evaluation (MRE) team jumped headfirst into the new year by kicking off several new studies in the first quarter. These include the first Market Progress and Evaluation Report (MPER) for the Extended Motor Products Market Transformation program, a market research effort to assess consumers’ use and…
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