This second Market Progress Evaluation Report (MPER #2) documents the results of an ongoing evaluation to assess the activities and accomplishments of the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance’s (NEEA) BetterBricks Hospitals and Healthcare Initiative (Hospitals Initiative), which is currently funded through 2008. BetterBricks is the umbrella initiative that covers all of NEEA’s commercial activities. The evaluation covers the period between October 2005 and October 2006. Interviews in support of this research were conducted in September 2006 with fourteen Hospitals Initiative staff, contractors, and industry consultants. Note that neither staff and executives at hospitals nor utility representatives were interviewed for this MPER because there were concerns, shared by the evaluators, that such interviews might create confusion in the market at a time when the Initiative was still in its early stages. The findings therefore reflect only the views of NEEA staff and contractors.
