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HVAC/ Very High Efficiency Dedicated Outside Air Systems Specifier Focus Groups Report
Between July and August 2020, the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) contracted with Sparrow Strategy, Focus Crossroads and 20|20 Research, to complete this mixed methods study. This report seeks to enhance NEEA’s understanding of the barriers to adoption of Very High Efficiency Dedicated Outside Air Systems (VHE DOAS), possible intervention strategies, and guidance on the…
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2019 Reduced Wattage Lamp Replacement Program Long-Term Monitoring and Tracking Report
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance’s (NEEA) Reduced Wattage Lamp Replacement (RWLR) Market Transformation program began in 2014 and transitioned to Long-Term Monitoring and Tracking (LTMT) in late 2018. The program sought to shift lighting distributors’ sales of replacement lamps from 32-watt linear fluorescent lamps (LFLs) to reduced wattage LFLs (25 and 28-watt). This report, prepared…
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2019 Alliance Cost Effectiveness Model Review for Heat Pump Water Heaters
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) contracted with Ecotope, Inc., to review the Alliance Cost Effectiveness (ACE) model for the Heat Pump Water Heater program. For the report, Ecotope focused on reviewing NEEA staff’s proposed method to aggregate Residential Building Stock Assessment II data so that the savings forecast reflects new “alternate” savings weights. These…
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2019 Alliance Cost Effectiveness Model Review for Ductless Heat Pumps
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) contracted with Ecotope, Inc., to review the Alliance Cost Effectiveness (ACE) model for the Ductless Heat Pump (DHP) program. For the report, Ecotope focused on reviewing: 1) how the ACE model incorporates recent Regional Technical Forum measure updates for DHPs; 2) the appropriateness of the ACE model’s approach to…
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Northwest Ductless Heat Pump Initiative: Market Progress Evaluation #8 Addendum – Ductless Heat Pumps in Cold Climates Installer Research
The Northwest Ductless Heat Pump Initiative: Market Progress Evaluation #8 Addendum – Ductless Heat Pumps in Cold Climates Installer Research, posted in August 2020, has been updated as of October 9, 2020 to incorporate additional survey data from installers to address a sampling error that was discovered after the release of the report. In 2019,…
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2019-2020 Washington Residential New Construction Code Study
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) contracted with CLEAResult to conduct research to better understand how the 2015 Washington State Energy Code (Residential Provisions) has affected new home construction and energy performance. The research team visited building code offices and single-family residences between September 2019 and January 2020. In the end, 184 houses were visited…
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2019 Residential Lighting Market Analysis
This 2019 report, conducted by Apex Analytics with subcontractor DNV GL, presents results of the 15th Northwest Residential Lighting Market Analysis. As in previous studies, store shelf and point-of-sale data was collected and analyzed to update market parameters including lamp sales mix and post-incentive per lamp cost. Key findings of the 2019 study include:
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Building Commissioning — 2019 Long Term Monitoring and Tracking (LTMT) Report
This Long Term Monitoring & Tracking (LTMT) report, prepared by The Cadmus Group, presents the 2019 findings for NEEA’s Building Commissioning Initiative which promoted commissioning from 1999 to 2004, and entered LTMT in 2005. The 2019 LTMT report: (1) Updates the number of Northwest commissioning firms; (2) Estimates the total floor area of new and…
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Drive Power Initiative — 2019 Long Term Monitoring and Tracking Report
As part of the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance’s (NEEA) long-term monitoring and tracking (LTMT) of the Drive Power Initiative (DPI), which actively promoted green motor rewinds from 1999 to 2004, NEEA contracted with The Cadmus Group to present this latest report of the 2019 findings for the DPI. As the eighth LTMT report for the…
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HVAC/Very High Efficiency Dedicated Outside Air Systems Specifier Interview Report
As part of the High-Performance HVAC initiative, the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) contracted with Cadeo Group to conduct qualitative market research on Very High Efficiency Dedicated Outside Air Systems (VHE DOAS). The objectives of the study were to 1) Better understand how decisions regarding HVAC systems are carried out from initial conception to installation…
Commercial|Commercial Buildings|Heating and Cooling|Natural Gas