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Light Commercial HVAC Market Assessment
A market characterization study was completed for light commercial (< 25 tons)1 HVAC equipment in the Pacific Northwest2. The objective was to develop a better understanding of the supplyside of the light commercial market, and specifically identify the key players, relationships, and approximate market size. The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (Alliance) expressed an interest in…
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Codes Market Progress Evaluation Report #1
In early 2004, the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance documented its efforts to support energy codes and to participate in the federal standards setting process through 2003. That report and its up-to-date record of code efforts were used as the starting point for this evaluation. Later in 2004, The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance engaged Quantec, LLC,…
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Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance 2004 Multifamily Building Stock Survey
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance’s Distribution Efficiency Initiative Project performed site visits for a sample of 500 representative single-family homes in the Pacific Northwest. This project will provide a baseline of Northwest residential building stock characteristics for single family homes. One residential sub-sector that is not represented in this effort is multifamily dwellings. This multifamily building…
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Light Commercial HVAC
A market characterization study was completed for light commercial (< 25 tons)1 HVAC equipment in the Pacific Northwest. The objective was to develop a better understanding of the supply side of the light commercial market, and specifically identify the key players, relationships, and approximate market size. The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (Alliance) expressed an interest…
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Long Term Monitoring and Tracking Report on 2005 Activities
Market transformation projects are long-term in nature. The development and launching of new products and services can be visualized as an “S” shaped diffusion curve with little market impact in the initial years and the major market effects occurring many years after a product is launched. The market progress of Alliance projects is tracked during…
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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…
Residential|Residential Buildings