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Northwest ENERGY STAR Homes: Report No. 7
This is the seventh Market Progress Evaluation Report (MPER) of the Northwest ENERGY STAR Homes program. This report presents evaluation findings based on a telephone survey of regional homebuyers and in-depth interviews with many market actors, including participating builders, technical training recipients in Oregon, Home Performance Specialists (i.e., verifiers) in Idaho, building supply companies, and…
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Home Appraisers Qualitative Study Final Research Report
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) promotes energy-efficient homes through its Northwest ENERGY STAR Homes program. The program encourages builders to differentiate their homes by constructing them to ENERGY STAR standards. The program also strives to generate demand for ENERGY STAR homes by educating real estate agents about the benefits of energy efficiency and ENERGY…
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Codes Market Progress Evaluation Report #3
This is the third Market Progress Evaluation Report (MPER) on the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance’s (NEEA’s) Codes and Standards Program. The conclusions and recommendations presented in this report are based on evaluation data collected from site visits, interviews with NEEA contractors, visits to building jurisdictions, and data from NEEA’s training efforts. Between 2005 and 2009,…
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2008 BetterBricks Overall Market Progress Evaluation Report
This Market Progress Evaluation Report (MPER) documents the progress of the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance’s (NEEA’s) commercial sector market transformation initiative, known as BetterBricks. The theory behind BetterBricks is summed up as “working with a few to influence the many” – that is, working with targeted organizations to influence the adoption of strategic energy-related business…
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Northwest ENERGY STAR Homes Program Report #6
This is the sixth Market Progress Evaluation Report (MPER) of the Northwest ENERGY STAR Homes program. This report presents evaluation findings based on a telephone survey of homebuilders and in-depth interviews with participants of the Lighting Fixtures Pilot Program that was conducted by ICF International during 2007 and 2008, which NEEA managed.
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2008-09 CFL Tracking Study
NEEA began its consumer lighting market initiatives in 1997 to advance consumer awareness and use of compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) and fluorescent light fixtures throughout the region. Its earliest projects addressed such market barriers as high first cost; lack of product availability; lack of consumer awareness; incompatibility of CFLs with existing fixtures, dimmers, timers and…
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2008 BetterBricks Overall Market Progress Evaluation Report
This Market Progress Evaluation Report (MPER) documents the progress of the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance’s (NEEA’s) commercial sector Market Transformation initiative, known as BetterBricks. This report details the evaluation findings for the activities within each of BetterBricks’ three target markets and two cross-cutting markets. It focuses on the period from approximately October 2007 to November…
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Long Term Monitoring and Tracking Report on 2008 Activities
Market transformation initiatives are long-term in nature. The development and launching of new products and services can be visualized as an “S”-shaped diffusion curve with relatively little market impact in the initial years and the major market effects occurring several years after an initiative is launched. The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) tracks the progress…
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BetterBricks Energy Savings Evaluation Report
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) retained the Cadmus Group (Cadmus) to complete an initial evaluation of the projects and energy savings associated with BetterBricks, NEEA’s commercial initiative. BetterBricks is a comprehensive commercial sector energy efficiency initiative designed to stimulate demand for energy efficiency within three vertical markets (Hospitals, Real Estate, and Grocery) and supply…
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Non-Residential Energy Savings From Northwest Energy Code Changes 2005-2008
This report provides estimates of energy savings associated with regional commercial building code changes adopted between July 2005 and July 2008 and projects savings from the date of their implementation through 2028.
Commercial Buildings|Regional Studies