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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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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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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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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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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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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…
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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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