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2025 Heat Pump Water Heater Baseline and Key Assumption Review
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) contracted with Larson Energy Research to review key baseline assumptions and energy savings inputs for its Heat Pump Water Heater (HPWH) program. In 2025, NEEA updated key assumptions to better account for HPWH adoption in residential new construction, introducing new approaches to more accurately track savings across the region.…
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Manufactured Homes Market Diffusion Evaluation Report
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) contracted with Apex Analytics, LLC to conduct the first Market Diffusion Evaluation report for its Manufactured Homes program, which stopped active market engagement in 2024. The program was designed to increase adoption of manufactured homes built to an above–ENERGY STAR® efficiency level (NEEM+) and, in doing so, to support…
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Retail Product Portfolio: Market Progress Evaluation Report #3
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) contracted with Level 7 Market Research to conduct the third Market Progress Evaluation Report (MPER) for the Retail Product Portfolio (RPP) program. From July 2025 through February 2026, Level 7 conducted interviews with NEEA staff and contractors, reviewed program documentation, internal reports, communication records, and sales data, and conducted…
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Retail Product Portfolio: Televisions Key Assumptions Review
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) contracted with TRC to review its approach to standardizing television sales and specification data, as well as several calculations supporting savings from energy-efficient televisions for comprehensiveness and accuracy. Methods included a focused review of current literature and utilizing technical expertise to assess NEEA’s available datasets and calculations. TRC found…
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Commercial and Industrial Fans Naturally Occurring Baseline Review
As part of its Efficient Fans program, the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) contracted with Apex Analytics, LLC (Apex), to conduct an independent review of the program’s natural market baseline forecast for efficiency levels of commercial and industrial stand-alone fans. The purposes of this review were to ensure that NEEA’s savings modeling assumptions for the…
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ERV/HRV Ownership and Maintenance Market Research
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) contracted with MarketWise Advising, LLC to conduct market research with commercial HVAC contractors, facilities managers, tenants, and building owners on the maintenance of energy and heat recovery ventilators (ERVs/HRVs) which are a key component of NEEA’s commercial HVAC programs. Data collected in fall 2025 explored perspectives on installing, commissioning, cleaning, and…
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Heat Pump Water Heater Market Progress Evaluation Report #8
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) contracted with NMR Group, Inc. to conduct the eighth Market Progress Report (MPER) for its Heat Pump Water Heater (HPWH) program. The report finds that the program has contributed greatly to setting the groundwork for ongoing and widespread HPWH adoption. Between 2021 and 2024, HPWH market share in the…
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Luminaire Level Lighting Controls: 2025 Review of Key Assumptions
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) contracted with Cadmus to conduct a review of key assumptions underlying the savings and cost effectiveness calculations for its Luminaire Level Lighting Controls (LLLC) program. The study focused on evaluating the LLLC program’s estimates of qualified-product market share, using aggregated and anonymized manufacturer sales data and utility incentive data.…
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Codes Market Progress Evaluation Report #6
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) contracted with NMR Group, Inc. (NMR) to conduct the sixth Market Progress Evaluation Report (MPER) for its commercial and residential codes efforts. The evaluation examined NEEA’s influence on code development and adoption in the Northwest, NEEA-supported energy code-related training and education efforts, and market actor use of software tools for code compliance assessment. Between November 2024 and September 2025, NMR compiled and analyzed information from…
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Stand-Alone Fan Manufacturer Representative & Specifier Market Activity Research
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) contracted with DNV Energy Insights, Inc. (DNV) to conduct a market research study on the specification and sales practices for stand-alone commercial and industrial fans as part of NEEA’s Efficient Fans program. The study sought to understand and document communication patterns, decision-making dynamics, and how well program terminology aligns with market language. Between May and July 2025, DNV reviewed relevant documents and materials, followed by primary data collection through in-depth interviews with 20 manufacturers’ representatives and specifying engineers active in the Northwest commercial…
Commercial + Industrial