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Northwest Commercial Buildings Deep Energy Retrofit Market Characterization and Twenty Year Market Baseline Assessment
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) engaged Navigant Consulting, Inc. (Navigant) to help NEEA develop a market characterization and twenty-year market baseline of the commercial Deep Energy Retrofit (DER) market in the Northwest Region. The DER market characterization and baseline assessment provide support for evaluating the impact of the Northwest regional Existing Building Renewal (EBR)…
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Market Characterization and Establishing the Market Baseline for the Commercial Real Estate Initiative
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) engaged Cadmus in April 2013 to conduct research on the commercial real estate (CRE) market of leased office space and NEEA’s CRE Initiative in the Northwest region of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington.
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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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Marginal Impact of Electric Heat Pumps on Home Sale Price
In November 2008, Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) engaged ECONorthwest to estimate the effect that electric heat pumps have on the sale price of homes in the Northwest. In this memorandum, we describe the analytical methods followed and the results of the analysis. A summary of our findings is as follows:
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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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Evaluation of Key ACE Model Assumptions for Motor Rewinds
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) engaged Cadmus in November 2013 to conduct research to update the key Alliance Cost Effectiveness (ACE) model assumptions for motor rewinds in the Northwest states of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington.
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NEEA Industrial Initiatives- Market Progress Evaluation Report #8
This is the eighth Market Progress Evaluation Report (MPER) on the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance’s (NEEA’s) Industrial Initiative (the Initiative) with specific focus on its energy management efforts in the food processing sector. The goal of the Initiative and related industrial efforts is to transform the market for industrial energy management services and to promote…
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RBSA Metering Study
Residential Building Stock Assessment – Metering (RBSA Metering) is a project of unusually large scope in a region already uncommonly committed to large-scale primary research. Its goals are broad: update a swath of load shapes for the first time in twenty-five years, assess the major determinants of residential energy use, and identify opportunities for energy…
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2013 Energy Savings Results for the Commercial Real Estate Cohorts
NEEA’s Commercial Real Estate (CRE) Initiative, offered since 2007, engages the Northwest’s commercial office real estate market to reduce energy use by adopting Strategic Energy Management (SEM) practices. SEM is a holistic approach that includes both efficient equipment and behavioral activities and requires engagement from organizational staff at all levels. NEEA provides technical advice and…
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Small to Medium Industrial SEM Energy Savings Validation
To determine whether Strategic Energy Management (SEM) can be effectively delivered within small to medium business facilities and whether energy savings from this effort can be measured, NEEA contracted with EnerNOC to implement a pilot with two cohorts of small (1-999 thousand kWh/yr) to medium (1-100 million kWh/yr) sized industrial facilities in Montana in SEM…
Commercial + Industrial