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Air Cleaner Unit Savings Review
As part of its Retail Products Portfolio (RPP) program, the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) implements a variety of strategies to speed adoption of energy-efficient consumer products. In 2019, NEEA discontinued midstream incentives for air cleaners while engaging actively in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) specification revision process. Because RPP program sponsors only receive…
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Air Cleaner Specification and Baseline Assessment Review
As part of its Retail Products Portfolio (RPP) program, the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) works collaboratively with other energy efficiency stakeholders to affect the advancement of ENERGY STAR specifications for consumer products. In July through October 2020, NEEA contracted with Apex Analytics to conduct an Air Cleaner Specification and Baseline Assessment Review. The objectives…
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HVAC Market Actor Profile Report
Between January and September 2020, the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) contracted with Apex Analytics and EcoMetric to complete an HVAC Market Actor Profile of HVAC contractors. This report seeks to inform NEEA’s future commercial HVAC program design and outreach efforts. The research objectives of this qualitative study were to understand the motivations, information sources, and…
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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:
Consumer Products|Residential