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Q2 2025 Emerging Technology Newsletter
The Q2 2025 Emerging Technology Newsletter highlights several exciting developments and updates of NEEA’s emerging technology efforts. Final reports are available for commercial heat pump dyers and residential heat pump rating representativeness studies. Look for final reports soon on the residential laundry field study, low load efficient heat pump investigation, tri-mode heat pump study, skinny…
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Q1 2025 Codes, Standards and New Construction Newsletter
This newsletter provides details of all NEEA’s codes, standards and new construction activities organized by state. Beyond the code and standards development efforts, NEEA provides trainings, educational materials, tools to aid in compliance, help desks to address market questions, and state level collaboratives that organize to address opportunities and needs in each of their states.…
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Q1 2025 Market Research and Evaluation Newsletter
Welcome to spring and the Market Research and Evaluation (MRE) team’s first newsletter of 2025! Here in the Northwest, the days aren’t necessarily sunnier, but they are definitely longer. The MRE team is busy wrapping up several large and long-running studies, including three building code compliance studies (for the states of Idaho, Montana and Oregon)…
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Q1 2025 Emerging Technology Newsletter
Welcome to 2025. This quarterly Emerging Technology update will highlight laundry products. As part of its long history with consumer products, NEEA started working on residential clothes dryers many years before ENERGY STAR® added that category. NEEA staff continue to explore innovations in laundry technology including residential and commercial heat pump dryers, all-in-one combination washers and dryers, and…
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Q4 2024 Codes, Standards and New Construction Newsletter
STANDARDS: 2024 saw some of the largest federal standards updates in the history of the program. Between 2021 and the end of 2024, the U.S. Department of Energy (U.S. DOE) updated more than 30 federal standards; U.S. DOE reviewed another nine and deemed them not ready for updates. Standards updates typically take more than two years from start to finish, so…
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Q3 2024 Codes, Standards and New Construction Newsletter
While Q3 2024 was slow for federal standards, it was busy for codes. After two prolific quarters, the U.S. Department of Energy (U.S. DOE) slowed the number of dockets for standards, but this lull is not expected to last. More than 10 final rules are expected before the end of the year, and U.S. DOE staff are working hard to…
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Q3 2024 Emerging Technology Newsletter
The third quarter of 2024 brought exciting progress on several projects and kicked off several new research efforts. The second Residential Laundry Field Study is nearing completion, with the final report to be published by Q4 of this year, along with data analysis underway on commercial heat pump dryers and efficient rooftop units. A regional cold climate room…
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Q4 2024 Market Research and Evaluation Newsletter
Greetings to all of you! Welcome to the Q4 2024 Market Research & Evaluation (MRE) newsletter. Inside are all the details about what NEEA’s MRE team has been up to the past few months, as well as what’s planned for the start of the new year. It’s been an eventful year. Nearly 40 studies were…
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Q4 2024 Emerging Technology Newsletter
NEEA’s Emerging Technology team is concluding a successful 2024 with the completion of several key projects, including: The launch of a long-awaited field study on Luminaire Level Lighting Controls (LLLC) combined with HVAC control in a commercial building constitute a highlight of the year. Led by Senior Product Manager Chris Wolgamott, this study, delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic,…
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Q3 2024 Market Research and Evaluation Newsletter
Welcome to another issue of NEEA’s Market Research and Evaluation quarterly newsletter! Thank you for taking time to read over the team’s plans for the fourth quarter. The end of the year is busy, with at least 15 studies in the field. Seven others are wrapping up and anticipating final reports. Evaluations are being fielded…
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