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Consumer Electronics Television Initiative Market Progress Evaluation Report #3
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) is a non-profit organization that works to accelerate the innovation and adoption of energy-efficient products, services, and practices in the Pacific Northwest. In 2009, NEEA launched the Consumer Electronics Television Initiative (the Initiative) to increase the availability of energy efficient televisions. The Initiative provides retailers with financial incentives to…
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NEEA Existing Building Renewal: Process Review Results
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) engaged Navigant Consulting, Inc. (Navigant) and its project partner, the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), to conduct a Process Review of NEEA’s Existing Building Renewal (EBR) Initiative Demonstration Projects. The EBR initiative aims to address the barriers and opportunities for the commercial office building market in the Northwest to conduct…
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NEEA’s 2015-19 Strategic Plan
Nearly twenty years ago, Northwest energy efficiency stakeholders from Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington came together to address the challenges of a changing utility environment. In the face of potential deregulation, the majority of Northwest utilities ramped down or ended successful local energy efficiency programs. Long-standing regional support infrastructure for energy efficiency was being downsized…
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NEEA Hospitals and Healthcare Initiative: Market Progress Evaluation Report 6
This report is the sixth Market Progress Evaluation Report (MPER) of the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance’s (NEEA’s) Hospitals and Healthcare (H&H) Initiative. This report presents evaluation findings based on in-depth telephone interviews with participating hospitals, the utilities that serve these hospitals and other market actors. The report also includes an analysis of 2012 energy savings…
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RETA CRES Initiative: Market Characterization, Baseline Study, and Forecast Report
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA), an alliance of more than 100 Northwest utilities and energy efficiency organizations, recently partnered with the Refrigerating Engineers & Technicians Association (RETA) to develop a new energy efficiency certification for industrial refrigeration operators across the northwest and the US: Certified Refrigeration Energy Specialist (CRES). The initiative seeks to transform…
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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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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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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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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…