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Evaluation of the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance’s Commercial Sector Initiative: Schools Target Market
In January 2003, the Alliance Board approved a one-year, $260,000 budget for a New Schools Target Market effort under the Commercial Sector Initiative (CSI). While CSI supports the entire commercial sector, three “target markets,” including schools, received additional, dedicated funding for the development of more targeted market transformation strategies. This report evaluates the success of…
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Commissioning in Public Buildings, Report No. 1
The Commissioning in Public Buildings Project seeks to make commissioning standard practice in public buildings in the Northwest (Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana). It is a multiyear effort, launched in 1998 and running through calendar year 2004. Until 2004, the project was coordinated across the four-state region by the Oregon Department of Energy (ODOE –…
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Market Progress Evaluation Report: Commercial Sector Initiative BetterBricks Training and Advising Services
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (the Alliance) is a non-profit corporation supported by Bonneville Power Administration, electric utilities, public benefits administrators, state governments, public interest groups and energy efficiency industry representatives. These entities work together to make affordable, energy-efficient products and services the market norm.
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Evaluation of the Utility Distribution System Efficiency Initiative (Phase I)
Traditionally, electric utilities have taken a demand-side approach to energy efficiency and conservation, focusing resources on programs to promote energy-efficient measures and conservation practices for their customers. However, industry experts have long believed that a vast, viable, and largely untapped resource for energy efficiency and peak load reduction may exist in the distribution system practices…
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ENERGY STAR Homes Northwest Program Report No. 1
This report is the first of three market progress evaluation reports (MPERs) for the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance’s ENERGY STAR Homes Northwest program. This project represents one of two major projects within the Alliance’s Residential Sector Initiative and works in close coordination with the Alliance’s ENERGY STAR Home Products program – the other project included…
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Commercial Windows Initiative Market Progress Evaluation Report #1
The Commercial Windows Initiative (CWI), a project developed and implemented by the West Wall Group (WWG), works with manufacturers, architects, specifiers, designers and developers to boost demand and market share for energyefficient, factory-built commercial windows. CWI works with these parties to increase sales of already efficient products and encourage the design, manufacture and sale of…
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Market Progress Evaluation Report 2: Surveyor Software
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (the Alliance) and Verdiem, Inc. (formerly EZConserve, Inc.) formed a public/private partnership in 2001 to help commercialize the Surveyor Network Energy Manager software.
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Small Commercial HVAC Pilot Program: Report No. 1
This report documents the experiences of a research, development, and implementation effort involving a multi-year Small Commercial Heating Ventilating and Air Conditioning (HVAC) Pilot program undertaken by the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (Alliance).
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Market Baseline Evaluation Report of The Bacgen Biowise Project
The BacGen BioWise Project (Project) represents a unique opportunity to transform the wastewater industry in the Pacific Northwest by leveraging the resources of the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (Alliance) with the entrepreneurial skills of BacGen Technologies. The Project is a market transformation venture focused on making micro-nutrient assisted biodigestion technology an industry standard. Developing formally…
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Performance Tested Comfort Systems / Climate Crafters Report No. 2
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (the Alliance) is a non-profit corporation supported by electric utilities, public benefits administrators, state governments, public interest groups and energy efficiency industry representatives. These entities work together to make affordable, energyefficient products and services available in the marketplace.
Heating and Cooling|Residential Buildings