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AB 549

An Integrated Whole Building Diagnostic Approach to Improving California's Existing Multifamily Buildings

Absorption Chiller

Distributed Energy Resources On-Site Optimization for Commercial Buildings with Electric and Thermal Storage Technologies

ACCA

Peak Demand and Energy Savings from Properly Sized and Matched Air Conditioners

Accelerate

Leading the Way: BPA's Efforts to Accelerate Energy Efficiency in the Northwest

Account Management

Fast Capacity Reduction through Geographically Targeted, Aggressive Efficiency Investment: Early Results from a Vermont Experiment

Action

Engaging Employees in Conservation Leadership

Active Mode

Standby Power: Building a Coherent International Policy Framework

Active vs. Passive Services

A Buildings Module for the Stochastic Energy Deployment System

Activity Profile

Who’s Ahead? Climate Cities Benchmark in Japan, U.S. and Germany

Actual

Review of Recent Midwest DSM Potential Studies

Adaptive Management

Adaptive Climate Protection Policy: Designing a Market-Based Instrument to Promote the Emergence of Carbon-Neutral, Green Buildings

Adaptive Policy

Adaptive Climate Protection Policy: Designing a Market-Based Instrument to Promote the Emergence of Carbon-Neutral, Green Buildings

Advanced Design

Getting to Fifty: Moving Toward Low-Energy Commercial Buildings

Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI)

Collaborative Two-Part AMI Programs for Demand Response and Energy Efficiency

Advertising

A Market Transformation Strategy for Gas-Fired Domestic Hot Water Heaters

Impacts of Advertising on Market Transformation: A Case Study of PG&E's 2007 CFL Marketing Campaign

Aerosol

Energy Implications of Economizer Use in California Data Centers

Affordable Housing

Calibration and Collaboration: Important Tools to Design High-Performance Affordable Housing Buildings

Cook County Energy Savers: How Energy Efficiency in Chicago's Multi-Family Buildings Has Evolved to Meet New Challenges from the 1980's to the Present Day

Aggressive

Making Aggressive Levels of Efficiency "Business as Usual" — California's Strategic Plan for the Next Generation of Energy Efficiency

AIA 2030 Challenge

The Divergence Problem — Meeting "AIA 2030 Challenge" Standards with Existing Buildings: A New York City Tenant Case Study

Air Conditioning

Appliance Energy Use in America's Second Home: The Automobile

Behavior and Energy Savings in Business Establishments

Effects of Air Conditioner Sizing on Energy Consumption and Peak Demand in a Hot-Dry Climate

Energy Efficiency and the Control and Simulation of VAV Systems

Field Tests of Specially Selected Air Conditioners for Hot Dry Climates

Incorrect Business Assumptions and Misappropriation of Cooling Resources, or Why Do We Bring Sweaters to Movie Theaters in the Summer?

Measured Effect of Air Flow and Refrigerant Charge on a High-Performance Heat Pump

National Cooling Initiative: What Are We Waiting For?

New California PIER R&D Product Introduction Process

NightCool: A Nocturnal Radiation Cooling Concept

Peak Demand and Energy Savings from Properly Sized and Matched Air Conditioners

Systems Research on Residential Ventilation

The Boom of Electricity Demand in the Residential Sector in the Developing World and the Potential for Energy Efficiency

Too Much Stick? Not Enough Carrot? Testing the Presumption of Non-Compliance

Up On the Roof: From the Past to the Future

Upstream with Residential HVAC Programming in the Northeast

Air Conditioning Control

Integration of Energy Management, Electrical Submetering and Time Sensitive Pricing in a Large Residential Community Utilizing Wireless Communications

Air Conditioning Peak Demand

Communicating Thermostats for Residential Time-of-Use Rates: They Do Make a Difference

New Approaches to Residential Direct Load Control in California

Air Conditioning Systems

Distributed Energy Resources On-Site Optimization for Commercial Buildings with Electric and Thermal Storage Technologies

Effects of Air Conditioner Sizing on Energy Consumption and Peak Demand in a Hot-Dry Climate

Too Much Stick? Not Enough Carrot? Testing the Presumption of Non-Compliance

Air Distribution

Moving Ducts Inside: Big Builders, Scientists Find Common Ground

Systems Research on Residential Ventilation

Air Pollution

Energy Efficiency and Climate Change Mitigation Policy

Energy Efficiency, Emissions, and Policy: Strengthening the Links

Life-Cycle Environmental Impacts of the Canadian Residential Sector

Allowances

Coming Climate Change Policy and the Effect on Energy Efficiency

Alternative Cooling

NightCool: A Nocturnal Radiation Cooling Concept

Amazon

The Greening of Retail: Opportunities for Increased Retail Engagement on Energy Efficiency

AMI

Residential Baseload Energy Use: Concept and Potential for AMI Customers

Annex 47

The International State of Building System Commissioning

APP

International Cooperation to Scale Up Adoption of High-Performance Buildings: From Novel to Normal

Appliance Efficiency Standards

International Comparison of Energy Efficiency Standard and Labels: Development Process and Implementation Phase

Quantifying the Effect of the Principal-Agent Problem on U.S. Residential Energy Use

Tackling Efficiency Paradoxes: Responses to "Energy-Efficient" 10,000 sq. ft. Houses and 50-inch Televisions

Utility Codes and Standards Programs: How Much Energy Do They Save?

Appliance Purchases

ENERGY STAR Quantity Quotes: A New Tool for Reaching Large Purchasers of Energy-Efficient Products

Appliances

Appliance Energy Use in America's Second Home: The Automobile

Canadian Standby Power Study of Consumer Electronics and Appliances

How Energy Efficient Are Modern Dishwashers?

Market Effects: Claim Them Now or Forever Hold Your Peace

Market Penetration of ENERGY STAR Qualified Appliances: An Analysis of Various Predictor Variables

Saving More with ENERGY STAR

Standby Power: Building a Coherent International Policy Framework

The New Landscape for Appliance Efficiency Standards

Architecture

Energy Efficient Lighting in Historic Buildings

Manufactured Panelized Roof System for Residential Buildings

ARI

Peak Demand and Energy Savings from Properly Sized and Matched Air Conditioners

ASHRAE 90.1

How Accurate Is Energy Modeling in the Market?

National Commercial Construction Characteristics and Compliance with Building Energy Codes: 1999-2007

ASHRAE Design Conditions

Way Beyond Widgets: Delivering Integrated Lighting Design in Actionable Solutions

ASHRAE Std. 62.1

Indoor Air Purification Technologies that Allow Reduced Outdoor Air Intake Rates While Maintaining Acceptable Levels of Indoor Air Quality

Asia

An Inconvenient Truth: The Reality of "Shoddy" CFLs in Developing Asia, and a Plan for Eliminating Them

International Cooperation to Scale Up Adoption of High-Performance Buildings: From Novel to Normal

Assessment

Home Performance with ENERGY STAR: Accelerating Energy Efficiency Improvements in Existing Homes

Asset Management

The Commercial Building Market Structure: An Act with Five Players

Asset Value

The Commercial Building Market Structure: An Act with Five Players

Attics

Next Generation Roofs and Attics for Homes

Attitudes

CFLs, Mercury and Mayhem! The Energy Efficiency Community Responds

Is Climate Change a Good Thing? Opportunities and Barriers to Using Climate Change to Motivate Efficiency

Market Transformation and Guiding Principles of Sustainability

Segmentation in a Mass Media Energy Campaign

Who's Buying CFLs? Who's Not Buying Them? Findings from a Large-Scale, Nationwide Survey

Attribution

Preaching to the Choir: Are Repeat Participants Free Riders?

Audits

Bringing the Vision to Life: Will Advances in Energy Communication Create a Significant Resource Strategy?

Making Fresh AIRE Out of Thin Air: Launching a Local Climate Action Initiative With Minimal State and Utility Involvement

Automated

CABA's Intelligent Building Programs

Automation

Enhancing Price Response Programs through Auto-DR: California's 2007 Implementation Experience

Avoided Costs

Better than the Sum of their Parts: Taking Advantage of the Water-Energy Nexus to Create Dual-Funded Partnership Programs

Awareness

Barriers to Greater Energy Efficiency within the Building Industry

Breaking Down Silos: Bridging the Communications and Knowledge Gap between Departments to Implement Energy Efficiency in the Public Sector

Changing Behaviors: Market Transformation Web Sites as Online Narrative

Energy Efficient Lighting in Historic Buildings

Engaging Occupants in Green Building Performance: Addressing the Knowledge Gap

Is Climate Change a Good Thing? Opportunities and Barriers to Using Climate Change to Motivate Efficiency

Segmentation in a Mass Media Energy Campaign

Welcome to your Home Energy Makeover

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Ballast

Avoiding Fluorescent Dimming Pitfalls for Daylight Harvesting

Barriers

Barriers to Greater Energy Efficiency within the Building Industry

Leading the Way: BPA's Efforts to Accelerate Energy Efficiency in the Northwest

Reaching Business and Industry: Lessons from 30 Years of Process Evaluation

Barriers to Implementation

Integration of Energy Management, Electrical Submetering and Time Sensitive Pricing in a Large Residential Community Utilizing Wireless Communications

Baseline

Debating Net Versus Gross Impacts in the Northeast: Policy and Program Perspectives

Lessons Learned in Selecting Impact Evaluation Methodologies: Metering, Modeling, or Billing Analysis?

Multifamily New Construction: Utility Program Leads the Way Toward Changing Building Practice and Energy Codes

Baseline Demand

Enhancing Price Response Programs through Auto-DR: California's 2007 Implementation Experience

Baseline Survey

Maine New Homes: How a Baseline Study Can Set You Straight

Measuring CFL Markets: A Collaborative Regional Study on the Northwest's Largest Efficiency Resource

Baseload

Residential Baseload Energy Use: Concept and Potential for AMI Customers

Basement

Modeling the Impacts of Performance Components in Super Energy Efficient House Designs in Different Climate Zones

BATF

International Cooperation to Scale Up Adoption of High-Performance Buildings: From Novel to Normal

Behavior

A High Energy Diet: The Impact of Lifestyle Changes on Energy Consumption in Food Sales and Food Service

Assessing the Impact of Behavioral Energy Efficiency Measures: A Simulation Approach

Behavior and Energy Savings in Business Establishments

Behaviour and Energy Savings in Residential Dwellings

Breaking Down Silos: Bridging the Communications and Knowledge Gap between Departments to Implement Energy Efficiency in the Public Sector

Communicating Thermostats for Residential Time-of-Use Rates: They Do Make a Difference

Dollars or Sense: Economic versus Social Rationality in Residential Energy Consumption

Engaging Employees in Conservation Leadership

Incorrect Business Assumptions and Misappropriation of Cooling Resources, or Why Do We Bring Sweaters to Movie Theaters in the Summer?

Is Climate Change a Good Thing? Opportunities and Barriers to Using Climate Change to Motivate Efficiency

Segmenting Residential Customers: Energy and Conservation Behaviors

The Commercial Building Market Structure: An Act with Five Players

Transforming Energy Behaviors of Households: Evidence from Low-Income Energy Education Programs

Behavior Change

Modeling Approaches to Building Energy Efficiency

Behavior Monitoring

Behavior: The Final Frontier

Measuring CFL Markets: A Collaborative Regional Study on the Northwest's Largest Efficiency Resource

Benchmark

Benchmarking and Equipment and Controls Assessment for a 'Big Box' Retail Chain

Building Lasting Partnerships: Program Strategies that Enamor Decision-Makers & Enable Savings in the Commercial Real Estate Office Sector

Green Building Performance Evaluation: Measured Results from LEED New Construction Buildings

Minnesota B3 Benchmarking Results: Prioritizing the Energy Savings Opportunity in Minnesota Public Buildings

Scoring Our Schools: Program Implementation Lessons-Learned from Benchmarking Over 1, 775 Schools for Seven Utilities

The Commercial Building Market Structure: An Act with Five Players

Who’s Ahead? Climate Cities Benchmark in Japan, U.S. and Germany

Best Practices

Best Practices in Community Energy-Efficiency and Renewable Energy Partnership Programs

Scalable Commercial Lighting Solutions for the Mainstream Market

Water-Wastewater Program Best Practices: Lessons from the Field

Billing

Promoting Combined Heat and Power (CHP) for Multifamily Properties

Targeting Energy Efficiency in Commercial Buildings Using Advanced Billing Analysis

Why, What, When, How, Where, and Who? Developing UK Policy on Metering, Billing and Energy Display Devices

Billing Analysis

Lessons Learned in Selecting Impact Evaluation Methodologies: Metering, Modeling, or Billing Analysis?

TOU Rates As If Prices Mattered: Reviving an Industry Standard for Today's Utility Environment

Bipolar Ionization

Indoor Air Purification Technologies that Allow Reduced Outdoor Air Intake Rates While Maintaining Acceptable Levels of Indoor Air Quality

Blower

Furnace Blower Electricity: National and Regional Savings Potential

Boiler Control

Integration of Energy Management, Electrical Submetering and Time Sensitive Pricing in a Large Residential Community Utilizing Wireless Communications

Boilers

Common Boiler Excess Air Trends and Strategies to Optimize Efficiency

BOMA

Building Lasting Partnerships: Program Strategies that Enamor Decision-Makers & Enable Savings in the Commercial Real Estate Office Sector

Boot Strapping

Assessing the Impact of Behavioral Energy Efficiency Measures: A Simulation Approach

Boulder

Boulder's Carbon Tax: Building a Foundation for Community Climate Action

Brazil

Improving Electricity Services and Reducing Energy Losses for the Urban Poor

Broker

Greening Leased Spaces: Opportunities and Challenges

Builders

Transforming the Residential Buildings Market through High Performance Homes and a National Home Performance Label: The DOE Builders Challenge

Building

A Buildings Module for the Stochastic Energy Deployment System

CABA's Intelligent Building Programs

Closing the Gap on Building Energy Codes to Achieve Carbon Reductions

Estimating National Carbon Savings Potential from Electricity Demand Reduction in Buildings

Greening Leased Spaces: Opportunities and Challenges

High Performance Homes in the Southwest: Savings Potential, Cost Effectiveness and Policy Options

Industry-Led Market Transformation

National Commercial Construction Characteristics and Compliance with Building Energy Codes: 1999-2007

New California PIER R&D Product Introduction Process

On a Crash Course? How Two Programs Avoid a Market Collision and Work Together

Transforming the Residential Buildings Market through High Performance Homes and a National Home Performance Label: The DOE Builders Challenge

U.S. Residential Miscellaneous Electric Loads Electricity Consumption

Building and Appliance Standards

Is Energy Efficiency Enough? An Exploration of California's Per Capita Electricity Consumption Trends

Building Calibration

Calibration and Collaboration: Important Tools to Design High-Performance Affordable Housing Buildings

Building Characteristics

Comparison of Commercial LEED Buildings and Non-LEED Buildings within the 2002-2004 Pacific Northwest Commercial Building Stock

Building Codes

Utility Codes and Standards Programs: How Much Energy Do They Save?

Building Design

Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS): The Process of Mainstreaming Efficiency in Action and the Evolution of CHPS

Manufactured Panelized Roof System for Residential Buildings

Moving Ducts Inside: Big Builders, Scientists Find Common Ground

Streamlining the Small New Construction Market: A Prescriptive Approach to Comprehensive Savings with Core Performance

Way Beyond Widgets: Delivering Integrated Lighting Design in Actionable Solutions

Building Energy Conservation

Minnesota B3 Benchmarking Results: Prioritizing the Energy Savings Opportunity in Minnesota Public Buildings

Building Energy Efficiency

Modeling Approaches to Building Energy Efficiency

Building Envelopes

Next Generation Roofs and Attics for Homes

The Value of Advanced Technologies in the U.S. Buildings Sector in Climate Change Mitigation

Building Model

Design and Optimization of a Mixed Mode Raised Floor and Natural Ventilation System for a High Rise Office Building

Building Performance

Deep Energy Reductions in Existing Homes: Strategies for Implementation

DOE Commercial Building Benchmark Models

Energy Design Guides for Army Barracks

Energy Efficiency and the Control and Simulation of VAV Systems

Engaging Occupants in Green Building Performance: Addressing the Knowledge Gap

From Single Commercial Buildings to Portfolios: Streamlining LEED® Documentation for Volume Customers

Greening the U.S. House of Representatives

Home Performance with ENERGY STAR® in California: Moving Into the Spotlight

How Accurate Is Energy Modeling in the Market?

Targeting Energy Efficiency in Commercial Buildings Using Advanced Billing Analysis

Building Permits

Too Much Stick? Not Enough Carrot? Testing the Presumption of Non-Compliance

Building Prototypes

DOE's Commercial Building Benchmarks — Development of Typical Construction Practices for Building Envelope and Mechanical Systems from the 2003 Commercial Building Energy Consumption Survey

Multifamily New Construction: Utility Program Leads the Way Toward Changing Building Practice and Energy Codes

Building Research

DOE Commercial Building Benchmark Models

DOE's Commercial Building Benchmarks — Development of Typical Construction Practices for Building Envelope and Mechanical Systems from the 2003 Commercial Building Energy Consumption Survey

Effects of Air Conditioner Sizing on Energy Consumption and Peak Demand in a Hot-Dry Climate

Energy Design Guides for Army Barracks

Moving Ducts Inside: Big Builders, Scientists Find Common Ground

Building Simulation Tools

An Integrated Whole Building Diagnostic Approach to Improving California's Existing Multifamily Buildings

Business

Accelerating the Adoption of Energy Efficient Business and Consumer Electronics

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CABA

CABA's Intelligent Building Programs

California

Low Power Mode Energy Use in California Homes

CALiPER

Magical Mystery Devices or Not: How Do LED Lamps and Luminaires Really Measure-Up?

Campaign

Changing Behaviors: Market Transformation Web Sites as Online Narrative

Canada

Canadian Standby Power Study of Consumer Electronics and Appliances

Industry-Led Market Transformation

Two Contrasting Markets & Approaches: Promoting Efficiency in the Province of New Brunswick and New England

Cap and Trade

Energy Efficiency and Emission Trading Schemes

Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due: Energy Efficiency in CO2 Emissions Trading

Capacity Bidding

Enhancing Price Response Programs through Auto-DR: California's 2007 Implementation Experience

Carbon

Addressing Climate Change Concerns at the Municipal Level: A Case Study of the City of Sunnyvale, California

Carbon Certificates

Mandates for Maximizing Cost-Effective Measures in Building Energy Codes: The Promise and Pitfalls during Times of Rapid Evolution

Carbon Dioxide (CO2)

Adaptive Climate Protection Policy: Designing a Market-Based Instrument to Promote the Emergence of Carbon-Neutral, Green Buildings

Energy Efficiency and Climate Change Mitigation Policy

Energy Efficiency, Emissions, and Policy: Strengthening the Links

EPA Climate Choice: Promoting Emerging Technologies That Protect the Climate

Extreme Efficiency: How Far Can We Go If We Really Need To?

Extreme Energy Efficiency on the Path to Climate Stability: A Tale of Two Municipalities

Is Climate Change a Good Thing? Opportunities and Barriers to Using Climate Change to Motivate Efficiency

It's the Size of the Reduction Target, Stupid! The Need for a Wholesale Re-Think of Energy Efficiency Policy in UK Housing

The Value of Advanced Technologies in the U.S. Buildings Sector in Climate Change Mitigation

Who’s Ahead? Climate Cities Benchmark in Japan, U.S. and Germany

Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Emissions

The "Average American" Unmasked: Social Structure and Differences in Household Energy Use and Carbon Emissions

Carbon Neutral

The Divergence Problem — Meeting "AIA 2030 Challenge" Standards with Existing Buildings: A New York City Tenant Case Study

Carbon Tax

Boulder's Carbon Tax: Building a Foundation for Community Climate Action

Cars

Appliance Energy Use in America's Second Home: The Automobile

Ceiling Fans

U.S. Residential Miscellaneous Electric Loads Electricity Consumption

Center

Cook County Energy Savers: How Energy Efficiency in Chicago's Multi-Family Buildings Has Evolved to Meet New Challenges from the 1980's to the Present Day

Certificates

Deal or No Deal? Pros and Cons of Trading under an Energy Efficiency Resource Standard

Challenge

Transforming the Residential Buildings Market through High Performance Homes and a National Home Performance Label: The DOE Builders Challenge

Characteristics

National Commercial Construction Characteristics and Compliance with Building Energy Codes: 1999-2007

Chicago

Cook County Energy Savers: How Energy Efficiency in Chicago's Multi-Family Buildings Has Evolved to Meet New Challenges from the 1980's to the Present Day

Energy Efficiency and Emission Trading Schemes

Chillers

21st Century Cooling Strategies for Large Retail Facilities in Dry Climates

Cities

Who’s Ahead? Climate Cities Benchmark in Japan, U.S. and Germany

Citizen

Taking It to the Streets: Innovative Public Engagement Process on Vermont's Electricity Future

City

Addressing Climate Change Concerns at the Municipal Level: A Case Study of the City of Sunnyvale, California

CLEAResult

Collaborating for Success: How Arkansas Got It Right

Scoring Our Schools: Program Implementation Lessons-Learned from Benchmarking Over 1, 775 Schools for Seven Utilities

Climate

Addressing Climate Change Concerns at the Municipal Level: A Case Study of the City of Sunnyvale, California

Is Energy Efficiency Enough? An Exploration of California's Per Capita Electricity Consumption Trends

Making Fresh AIRE Out of Thin Air: Launching a Local Climate Action Initiative With Minimal State and Utility Involvement

Who’s Ahead? Climate Cities Benchmark in Japan, U.S. and Germany

Climate Action Plan

Boulder's Carbon Tax: Building a Foundation for Community Climate Action

Climate Change

Adaptive Climate Protection Policy: Designing a Market-Based Instrument to Promote the Emergence of Carbon-Neutral, Green Buildings

An Inconvenient Truth: The Reality of "Shoddy" CFLs in Developing Asia, and a Plan for Eliminating Them

Building a Green Capital City: The Natural Step to Madison's Sustainable Design and Energy Future

Coming Climate Change Policy and the Effect on Energy Efficiency

Efficiency in a Climate-Constrained World: Are We Aiming High Enough?

Energy Efficiency and Climate Change Mitigation Policy

EPA Climate Choice: Promoting Emerging Technologies That Protect the Climate

Extreme Efficiency: How Far Can We Go If We Really Need To?

Extreme Energy Efficiency on the Path to Climate Stability: A Tale of Two Municipalities

Green Location: The Critical Role of Land Use in Climate Change and Energy Consumption

Greening Communities: Integrating Climate Protection Policies into Local Governments' General Plans through Online Collaboration

Is Climate Change a Good Thing? Opportunities and Barriers to Using Climate Change to Motivate Efficiency

It's the Size of the Reduction Target, Stupid! The Need for a Wholesale Re-Think of Energy Efficiency Policy in UK Housing

Mandates for Maximizing Cost-Effective Measures in Building Energy Codes: The Promise and Pitfalls during Times of Rapid Evolution

The New Landscape for Appliance Efficiency Standards

The Value of Advanced Technologies in the U.S. Buildings Sector in Climate Change Mitigation

Climate Protection

Adaptive Climate Protection Policy: Designing a Market-Based Instrument to Promote the Emergence of Carbon-Neutral, Green Buildings

Clothes Washers

Energy Efficiency Portfolio of the Future

Market Effects: Claim Them Now or Forever Hold Your Peace

Codes

Closing the Gap on Building Energy Codes to Achieve Carbon Reductions

National Commercial Construction Characteristics and Compliance with Building Energy Codes: 1999-2007

Code Change

Residential Building Code Change: Market Transformation Success, Back to the Beginning for ENERGY STAR Homes Program Implementation

Code Compliance

Maine New Homes: How a Baseline Study Can Set You Straight

Standards Education and Training Program as a Resource Program

Code Development

Mandates for Maximizing Cost-Effective Measures in Building Energy Codes: The Promise and Pitfalls during Times of Rapid Evolution

Utility Codes and Standards Programs: How Much Energy Do They Save?

Code Enforcement

Mandates for Maximizing Cost-Effective Measures in Building Energy Codes: The Promise and Pitfalls during Times of Rapid Evolution

Multifamily New Construction: Utility Program Leads the Way Toward Changing Building Practice and Energy Codes

Coefficient of Performance (COP)

Measured Effect of Air Flow and Refrigerant Charge on a High-Performance Heat Pump

NightCool: A Nocturnal Radiation Cooling Concept

Cogeneration

Distributed Energy Resources On-Site Optimization for Commercial Buildings with Electric and Thermal Storage Technologies

Promoting Combined Heat and Power (CHP) for Multifamily Properties

Walking the Walk: Considering Non-Transmission Alternatives in Utility Planning, Part Deux

Collaborative

Boulder's Carbon Tax: Building a Foundation for Community Climate Action

Collaborating for Success: How Arkansas Got It Right

Collaborative Two-Part AMI Programs for Demand Response and Energy Efficiency

Collaborative Planning

Greening Communities: Integrating Climate Protection Policies into Local Governments' General Plans through Online Collaboration

Colorado

Boulder's Carbon Tax: Building a Foundation for Community Climate Action

Combined Heat and Power

The Operation Result of the Demonstration of Energy Networks of Electricity, Heat, and Hydrogen at an Apartment Building in 2007

Combustion

Common Boiler Excess Air Trends and Strategies to Optimize Efficiency

Comfort

Engaging Occupants in Green Building Performance: Addressing the Knowledge Gap

Incorrect Business Assumptions and Misappropriation of Cooling Resources, or Why Do We Bring Sweaters to Movie Theaters in the Summer?

Systems Research on Residential Ventilation

Commercial

A Bright Idea in Commercial Lighting: New Brunswick's Success with an Upstream Incentive Approach

Building and Remodeling a New Construction Program

Case Studies in Restaurant Water Heating

Closing the Gap on Building Energy Codes to Achieve Carbon Reductions

Estimating National Carbon Savings Potential from Electricity Demand Reduction in Buildings

Greening Leased Spaces: Opportunities and Challenges

Making Fresh AIRE Out of Thin Air: Launching a Local Climate Action Initiative With Minimal State and Utility Involvement

National Commercial Construction Characteristics and Compliance with Building Energy Codes: 1999-2007

New California PIER R&D Product Introduction Process

Quantifying the "Real World" Impacts of Early Design Involvement and the Implications for New Construction Program Design, Implementation and Evaluation

Targeted Marketing Strategies that Increase Energy Efficiency Program Participation of Commercial Companies

Commercial Building Owner

The Commercial Building Market Structure: An Act with Five Players

Commercial Buildings

A High Energy Diet: The Impact of Lifestyle Changes on Energy Consumption in Food Sales and Food Service

Distributed Energy Resources On-Site Optimization for Commercial Buildings with Electric and Thermal Storage Technologies

DOE Commercial Building Benchmark Models

DOE's Commercial Building Benchmarks — Development of Typical Construction Practices for Building Envelope and Mechanical Systems from the 2003 Commercial Building Energy Consumption Survey

DOE's Commercial Buildings Program: A Market-Based Approach to Zero Energy Performance

Energy Design Guides for Army Barracks

Estimating Energy Savings for a Commercial Market Transformation Initiative

Evaluating the Performance and Economics of Transpired Solar Collectors for Commercial Applications

Extreme Energy Efficiency on the Path to Climate Stability: A Tale of Two Municipalities

Getting to Fifty: Moving Toward Low-Energy Commercial Buildings

Implications of Ownership in the U.S. and U.K.: An Exploration of ENERGY STAR® Buildings & the Energy Efficiency Accreditation Scheme

Networks in Buildings: Which Path Forward?

Property Agents in the UK: Some Reflections on the Social Production of Desirable Space

Streamlining the Small New Construction Market: A Prescriptive Approach to Comprehensive Savings with Core Performance

The Commercial Building Market Structure: An Act with Five Players

The Evolution of a Successful Efficiency Program: Energy Savings Bid

The International State of Building System Commissioning

Transforming the Practices of Building Operation and Maintenance Professionals: A Washington State Pilot Program

Universal Energy Benchmarking for Commercial Buildings: Making It a Reality in California

Way Beyond Widgets: Delivering Integrated Lighting Design in Actionable Solutions

Commercial Codes and Standards

Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS): The Process of Mainstreaming Efficiency in Action and the Evolution of CHPS

DOE's Commercial Building Benchmarks — Development of Typical Construction Practices for Building Envelope and Mechanical Systems from the 2003 Commercial Building Energy Consumption Survey

Mandates for Maximizing Cost-Effective Measures in Building Energy Codes: The Promise and Pitfalls during Times of Rapid Evolution

Up On the Roof: From the Past to the Future

Commercial Equipment

80 PLUS: Market Impacts and Lessons Learned

Cooking Up a New Approach for Program Design II: A Recipe for Success

DOE's Commercial Building Benchmarks — Development of Typical Construction Practices for Building Envelope and Mechanical Systems from the 2003 Commercial Building Energy Consumption Survey

Up On the Roof: From the Past to the Future

Commercial Lighting

Scalable Commercial Lighting Solutions for the Mainstream Market

Commercial Marketing

Cooking Up a New Approach for Program Design II: A Recipe for Success

From Resource Acquisition to Relationships: How Energy Efficiency Initiatives Can Work Effectively with Large Commercial & Industrial Customers

Commercial Programs

A Market-Based Approach to Energy Efficiency in Hospitality

Cooking Up a New Approach for Program Design II: A Recipe for Success

From Resource Acquisition to Relationships: How Energy Efficiency Initiatives Can Work Effectively with Large Commercial & Industrial Customers

Reaching Business and Industry: Lessons from 30 Years of Process Evaluation

The Commercial Building Market Structure: An Act with Five Players

Commercial Real Estate

Building Lasting Partnerships: Program Strategies that Enamor Decision-Makers & Enable Savings in the Commercial Real Estate Office Sector

Commissioning

Making the Leap: Data and Lessons Learned from Scaling Up Retrocommissioning Programs

The International State of Building System Commissioning

Commissions

Debating Net Versus Gross Impacts in the Northeast: Policy and Program Perspectives

Common EM&V Protocols

The Development of an Evaluation, Measurement and Verification Forum for the Northeast Region

Communication

Bringing the Vision to Life: Will Advances in Energy Communication Create a Significant Resource Strategy?

Community

Best Practices in Community Energy-Efficiency and Renewable Energy Partnership Programs

Orienting the Neighborhood: A Subdivision Energy Analysis Tool

Community Energy Planning

Extreme Energy Efficiency on the Path to Climate Stability: A Tale of Two Municipalities

Leading by Example: Streamlining EE in the Local Government Sector

Community Outreach

Fast Capacity Reduction through Geographically Targeted, Aggressive Efficiency Investment: Early Results from a Vermont Experiment

Community Programs

Boulder's Carbon Tax: Building a Foundation for Community Climate Action

Government Partnership: Measuring Indirect Impacts on the Community

Sustainable Baltimore ASAP: Assessment Study and Action Plan

Community Projects

Deep Energy Reductions in Existing Homes: Strategies for Implementation

Community Utility Partnerships

A New Community Compact: How One Utility Plans to Meet Increasing Resource and Environmental Challenges

Community-Based Programs

Best Practices in Community Energy-Efficiency and Renewable Energy Partnership Programs

Compact Fluorescent Lampls (CFL)

An Inconvenient Truth: The Reality of "Shoddy" CFLs in Developing Asia, and a Plan for Eliminating Them

Are We There Yet? An Assessment of a Decade of Lighting Market Transformation Efforts

Halving Residential Lighting Energy Use by 2020: What a Multi-Stakeholder Target and Approach Means for Efficiency Programs

Impacts of Advertising on Market Transformation: A Case Study of PG&E's 2007 CFL Marketing Campaign

LED Lighting: Applying Lessons Learned from the CFL Experience

Market Effects: Claim Them Now or Forever Hold Your Peace

Walking the Aisles: Designing Research to Understand CFL Purchase Motivations at the Time of Sale

Welcome to the Dark Side: The Effect of Switching on CFL Measure Life

Comparison

A Comparison of Per-Capita Electricity Consumption in the United States and California

International Comparison of Energy Efficiency Standard and Labels: Development Process and Implementation Phase

International Comparison of Household Energy Consumption and its Indicator

Competition

A Market Transformation Strategy for Gas-Fired Domestic Hot Water Heaters

Creating Regulatory Structures for Robust Demand Response Participation in Organized Wholesale Electric Markets

Compliance

How the Enforcement of MEPS in Australia Has Led to a Paradigm Shift in Supplier Attitudes

National Commercial Construction Characteristics and Compliance with Building Energy Codes: 1999-2007

Comprehensive Conservation

Deep Energy Reductions in Existing Homes: Strategies for Implementation

Comprehensive Programs

An Integrated Whole Building Diagnostic Approach to Improving California's Existing Multifamily Buildings

Compressor

Compressor Confusion: Field Findings on the Role of Supplemental Cooling in a Commercial Indirect Evaporative Air Conditioner

Computer

Changing Behaviors: Market Transformation Web Sites as Online Narrative

U.S. Residential Miscellaneous Electric Loads Electricity Consumption

Wireless Sensor Technology for Data Centers

Computer Monitors

U.S. Residential Miscellaneous Electric Loads Electricity Consumption

Computer Simulation

Calibration and Collaboration: Important Tools to Design High-Performance Affordable Housing Buildings

Design and Optimization of a Mixed Mode Raised Floor and Natural Ventilation System for a High Rise Office Building

DOE Commercial Building Benchmark Models

Energy Design Guides for Army Barracks

Energy Efficiency and the Control and Simulation of VAV Systems

HWSIM: Development and Validation of a Residential Hot Water Distribution System Model

Lessons Learned in Selecting Impact Evaluation Methodologies: Metering, Modeling, or Billing Analysis?

Multifamily New Construction: Utility Program Leads the Way Toward Changing Building Practice and Energy Codes

Promoting Combined Heat and Power (CHP) for Multifamily Properties

Streamlining the Small New Construction Market: A Prescriptive Approach to Comprehensive Savings with Core Performance

Computerized Control System

Networks in Buildings: Which Path Forward?

Conditional Demand Analysis

An End-Use Intensity Study of the Residential Sector

Conservation

A New "Twist" on a CFL Program: How One Utility Capitalized on a Creative Approach

Beyond Supply Curves

Engaging Employees in Conservation Leadership

Industry-Led Market Transformation

Segmenting Residential Customers: Energy and Conservation Behaviors

Conservation Ethic

Is Energy Efficiency Enough? An Exploration of California's Per Capita Electricity Consumption Trends

Conservation Funding

Sustainable Baltimore ASAP: Assessment Study and Action Plan

Construction

National Commercial Construction Characteristics and Compliance with Building Energy Codes: 1999-2007

Consumers

A New "Twist" on a CFL Program: How One Utility Capitalized on a Creative Approach

Accelerating the Adoption of Energy Efficient Business and Consumer Electronics

Canadian Standby Power Study of Consumer Electronics and Appliances

Creating Regulatory Structures for Robust Demand Response Participation in Organized Wholesale Electric Markets

EPA Climate Choice: Promoting Emerging Technologies That Protect the Climate

Smart Metering: What Works and What Doesn't

The New Landscape for Appliance Efficiency Standards

Transforming Ourselves While Transforming the Market: Turning Technical Expertise into the Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings

Who's Buying CFLs? Who's Not Buying Them? Findings from a Large-Scale, Nationwide Survey

Consumer Awareness

Changing Behaviors: Market Transformation Web Sites as Online Narrative

Sustainable Baltimore ASAP: Assessment Study and Action Plan

Teaching Customers to Value Energy Efficiency: A Comparison of CFL Fund Raisers

Welcome to your Home Energy Makeover

Consumer Behavior

A Plea for Simpler Electricity Tariffs

Energy Efficiency and Changes in Energy Demand Behavior

Energy Efficiency Mass Distribution Program Innovations

Measuring CFL Markets: A Collaborative Regional Study on the Northwest's Largest Efficiency Resource

Tackling Efficiency Paradoxes: Responses to "Energy-Efficient" 10,000 sq. ft. Houses and 50-inch Televisions

The "Average American" Unmasked: Social Structure and Differences in Household Energy Use and Carbon Emissions

The Power of Point-of-Purchase Signage

Walking the Aisles: Designing Research to Understand CFL Purchase Motivations at the Time of Sale

Welcome to your Home Energy Makeover

Who's Buying CFLs? Who's Not Buying Them? Findings from a Large-Scale, Nationwide Survey

Consumer Electronics

Consumer Electronics Efficiency Programs: The Next Big Challenge

Consumption

A High Energy Diet: The Impact of Lifestyle Changes on Energy Consumption in Food Sales and Food Service

The "Average American" Unmasked: Social Structure and Differences in Household Energy Use and Carbon Emissions

Context

Dollars or Sense: Economic versus Social Rationality in Residential Energy Consumption

Contractor Recruitment

Best Practices and Lessons Learned from EPA/DOE's Home Performance with ENERGY STAR Program

Control Systems

Networks in Buildings: Which Path Forward?

Controls

Benchmarking and Equipment and Controls Assessment for a 'Big Box' Retail Chain

Dynamic Energy Management

Energy Efficiency and the Control and Simulation of VAV Systems

Wireless Sensor Technology for Data Centers

Convention on Climate Change

Promoting Combined Heat and Power (CHP) for Multifamily Properties

Cooking

Cooking Up a New Approach for Program Design II: A Recipe for Success

Cool Roofs

NightCool: A Nocturnal Radiation Cooling Concept

Cool Storage

21st Century Cooling Strategies for Large Retail Facilities in Dry Climates

CoolAire

Compressor Confusion: Field Findings on the Role of Supplemental Cooling in a Commercial Indirect Evaporative Air Conditioner

Cooling

21st Century Cooling Strategies for Large Retail Facilities in Dry Climates

Effects of Air Conditioner Sizing on Energy Consumption and Peak Demand in a Hot-Dry Climate

Incorrect Business Assumptions and Misappropriation of Cooling Resources, or Why Do We Bring Sweaters to Movie Theaters in the Summer?

International Comparison of Household Energy Consumption and its Indicator

NightCool: A Nocturnal Radiation Cooling Concept

Towards Adaptive PMV/PPD Indices for European Climates…

Cooling Load

Next Generation Roofs and Attics for Homes

Cooperative Procurement

The Role of State Programs in Promoting New Energy Efficient Technologies

Cooperative Promotions

Upstream with Residential HVAC Programming in the Northeast

Cooperatives

Breaking Down the Barriers to Efficiency Improvements in the Rental Housing Market: One Utility's Approach

Core Programs

CFL Program Strategy Review: No Programmatic "Silver Bullet"

Corporate Social Responsibility

The Greening of Retail: Opportunities for Increased Retail Engagement on Energy Efficiency

Correlation

Is Energy Efficiency Enough? An Exploration of California's Per Capita Electricity Consumption Trends

Cost

Greater Impacts at Reasonable Costs: Setting and Meeting Energy Efficiency Resource Standards with Best Practices

How Much More Does It Cost to Build an ENERGY STAR® Home? Incremental Cost Estimation Process

Least Cost Path to Achieving 50% Reduction in Residential Energy Use (in Heating Climates)

The Sustainability and Costs of Increasing Efficiency Impacts: Evidence from Experience to Date

Cost-Benefit Analysis

Addressing Climate Change Concerns at the Municipal Level: A Case Study of the City of Sunnyvale, California

Better than the Sum of their Parts: Taking Advantage of the Water-Energy Nexus to Create Dual-Funded Partnership Programs

CFLs, Mercury and Mayhem! The Energy Efficiency Community Responds

Maine New Homes: How a Baseline Study Can Set You Straight

Cost-Effectiveness

Efficiency in a Climate-Constrained World: Are We Aiming High Enough?

Energy Efficiency Mass Distribution Program Innovations

Home Performance with ENERGY STAR® in California: Moving Into the Spotlight

Next Generation Roofs and Attics for Homes

The Sustainability and Costs of Increasing Efficiency Impacts: Evidence from Experience to Date

Cost-Sharing

Better than the Sum of their Parts: Taking Advantage of the Water-Energy Nexus to Create Dual-Funded Partnership Programs

Credits

Deal or No Deal? Pros and Cons of Trading under an Energy Efficiency Resource Standard

Critical Peak Pricing

Enhancing Price Response Programs through Auto-DR: California's 2007 Implementation Experience

Curtailment

Integration of Energy Management, Electrical Submetering and Time Sensitive Pricing in a Large Residential Community Utilizing Wireless Communications

Customer Behavior

Free-Ridership Measurement Is Out of Sync with Program Logic… or, We've Got the Structure Built, but What's its Foundation?

HWSIM: Development and Validation of a Residential Hot Water Distribution System Model

The Power of Point-of-Purchase Signage

Customer Education

A Plea for Simpler Electricity Tariffs

Customer Impacts

What's Cooking? Commercial Building Trends in the Food Services Industry

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Data Base Management

Greening Communities: Integrating Climate Protection Policies into Local Governments' General Plans through Online Collaboration

Data Center

Energy Implications of Economizer Use in California Data Centers

Wireless Sensor Technology for Data Centers

Data Visualization

Targeting Energy Efficiency in Commercial Buildings Using Advanced Billing Analysis

Daylight

Avoiding Fluorescent Dimming Pitfalls for Daylight Harvesting

Deep Energy Savings in a Small Office Building: The Southface Eco-Office Demonstration and Research Project

Way Beyond Widgets: Delivering Integrated Lighting Design in Actionable Solutions

Decision Making

Free-Ridership Measurement Is Out of Sync with Program Logic… or, We've Got the Structure Built, but What's its Foundation?

Greening Communities: Integrating Climate Protection Policies into Local Governments' General Plans through Online Collaboration

Life-Cycle Environmental Impacts of the Canadian Residential Sector

Reaching Business and Industry: Lessons from 30 Years of Process Evaluation

Shifting the Paradigm to Achieve Big, Bold Energy-Efficiency Initiatives in California

The Role of State Programs in Promoting New Energy Efficient Technologies

Transforming Ourselves While Transforming the Market: Turning Technical Expertise into the Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings

Deemed Savings

Assessment of White Certificate Schemes in Europe

Degree-Day Analysis

Targeting Energy Efficiency in Commercial Buildings Using Advanced Billing Analysis

Dehumidification

Can Conventional Cooling Equipment Meet Dehumidification Needs for Houses in Humid Climates?

Development of an Integrated Residential Humid Climate HVAC System

Deliberative

Taking It to the Streets: Innovative Public Engagement Process on Vermont's Electricity Future

Demand

A Method for Deriving an Empirical Hourly Base Load Shape from Utility Hourly Total Load Records

Estimating National Carbon Savings Potential from Electricity Demand Reduction in Buildings

Demand Bidding

Enhancing Price Response Programs through Auto-DR: California's 2007 Implementation Experience

Demand Modeling

The "Average American" Unmasked: Social Structure and Differences in Household Energy Use and Carbon Emissions

Demand Resource

Playing with the Big Boys: Energy Efficiency as a Resource in the ISO New England Forward Capacity Market

Demand Response

A Tale of Two Houses: The Human Dimension of Demand Response Enabling Technology from a Case Study of an Adaptive Wireless Thermostat

Assessment of Achievable Potential for Energy Efficiency and Demand Response in the U.S. (2010—2030)

Collaborative Two-Part AMI Programs for Demand Response and Energy Efficiency

Demand Response-Enabled Residential Thermostat Controls

Enhancing Price Response Programs through Auto-DR: California's 2007 Implementation Experience

Variable Refrigerant Flow: An Emerging Air Conditioner and Heat Pump Technology

Demand Savings

Debating Net Versus Gross Impacts in the Northeast: Policy and Program Perspectives

Designing a Successful Demand Response Program: It's Not Your Grandfather's Load Control Program

Dynamic Energy Management

Towards Adaptive PMV/PPD Indices for European Climates…

Demand-Side Management (DSM)

Assessment of White Certificate Schemes in Europe

Creating Regulatory Structures for Robust Demand Response Participation in Organized Wholesale Electric Markets

Designing a Successful Demand Response Program: It's Not Your Grandfather's Load Control Program

Dynamic Energy Management

Greater Impacts at Reasonable Costs: Setting and Meeting Energy Efficiency Resource Standards with Best Practices

Industry-Led Market Transformation

Integration of Retail Demand Response with Midwest ISO Wholesale Markets

Moving to New Regulatory Frameworks that Leverage Market Forces to Maximize Societal Uptake of Energy Efficiency

Review of Recent Midwest DSM Potential Studies

The Sustainability and Costs of Increasing Efficiency Impacts: Evidence from Experience to Date

Update on Utility Energy Efficiency Programs in the Southwest

What's Working Well: Lessons from a National Review of Exemplary Energy Efficiency Programs

Zero Energy Peak from Zero Energy Homes

Demand-Side Management (DSM) Contracts

DSM Implementation Contracts and Stakeholder Advisory Groups: Considerations for DSM Program Managers

Demand-Side Management (DSM) Potential

DSM Potential Studies Are Alive and Well and Living in Canada

Demand-Side Solutions

Making Aggressive Levels of Efficiency "Business as Usual" — California's Strategic Plan for the Next Generation of Energy Efficiency

Demographics

A High Energy Diet: The Impact of Lifestyle Changes on Energy Consumption in Food Sales and Food Service

Demonstration

Development of an Integrated Residential Humid Climate HVAC System

Demonstration Project

Energy Efficiency Portfolio of the Future

Energy Efficient Lighting in Historic Buildings

Greening the U.S. House of Representatives

Lighting the Great Outdoors: LEDs in Exterior Applications

New California PIER R&D Product Introduction Process

Density

Green Location: The Critical Role of Land Use in Climate Change and Energy Consumption

Descriptive

Laying the Foundation for Energy Efficiency Potential Estimates Through Market Assessment

Desiccant Cooling

Promoting Combined Heat and Power (CHP) for Multifamily Properties

Design

Barriers to Greater Energy Efficiency within the Building Industry

Quantifying the "Real World" Impacts of Early Design Involvement and the Implications for New Construction Program Design, Implementation and Evaluation

Design Criteria

The Role of State Programs in Promoting New Energy Efficient Technologies

Design Options

Energy Efficiency Mass Distribution Program Innovations

Not Just Energy Savings: Emerging Regulatory Challenges from the Implementation of Tradable White Certificates

Design Tool

Orienting the Neighborhood: A Subdivision Energy Analysis Tool

Developed and Developing Countries

International Comparison of Household Energy Consumption and its Indicator

Developing Countries

The Boom of Electricity Demand in the Residential Sector in the Developing World and the Potential for Energy Efficiency

Diagnostics

Transforming the Practices of Building Operation and Maintenance Professionals: A Washington State Pilot Program

Diet

A High Energy Diet: The Impact of Lifestyle Changes on Energy Consumption in Food Sales and Food Service

Diffusion

Transforming Ourselves While Transforming the Market: Turning Technical Expertise into the Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings

Dimmable

The Advantages of Highly Controlled Lighting for Offices and Commercial Buildings

Dimming

Avoiding Fluorescent Dimming Pitfalls for Daylight Harvesting

Dimming Ballasts

The Advantages of Highly Controlled Lighting for Offices and Commercial Buildings

Direct Installation

A Market-Based Approach to Energy Efficiency in Hospitality

Fast Capacity Reduction through Geographically Targeted, Aggressive Efficiency Investment: Early Results from a Vermont Experiment

On-Bill Financing of Small Business Energy Efficiency: An Evolving Success Story

Dishwashers

Energy Efficiency Portfolio of the Future

How Energy Efficient Are Modern Dishwashers?

Display

Bringing the Vision to Life: Will Advances in Energy Communication Create a Significant Resource Strategy?

Smart Metering: What Works and What Doesn't

Why, What, When, How, Where, and Who? Developing UK Policy on Metering, Billing and Energy Display Devices

Distributed Generation

Distributed Energy Resources On-Site Optimization for Commercial Buildings with Electric and Thermal Storage Technologies

Distribution Planning

Walking the Walk: Considering Non-Transmission Alternatives in Utility Planning, Part Deux

Distributor

A Bright Idea in Commercial Lighting: New Brunswick's Success with an Upstream Incentive Approach

DOE-02

Furnace Blower Electricity: National and Regional Savings Potential

Dry Climate

Field Tests of Specially Selected Air Conditioners for Hot Dry Climates

Duct

Furnace Blower Electricity: National and Regional Savings Potential

Up On the Roof: From the Past to the Future

Duct Leakage

Moving Ducts Inside: Big Builders, Scientists Find Common Ground

Next Generation Roofs and Attics for Homes

Too Much Stick? Not Enough Carrot? Testing the Presumption of Non-Compliance

Duct Sealing

Too Much Stick? Not Enough Carrot? Testing the Presumption of Non-Compliance

DX

Compressor Confusion: Field Findings on the Role of Supplemental Cooling in a Commercial Indirect Evaporative Air Conditioner

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ECM Analysis

How the "Dirty Dozen" ECMs Created a Need for a Risk Assessment Tool

Eco-Municipality

Building a Green Capital City: The Natural Step to Madison's Sustainable Design and Energy Future

Econometrics

Assessing the Impact of Behavioral Energy Efficiency Measures: A Simulation Approach

Attribution Methodology Wars: Self-Report Methods versus Statistical Number Crunching — Which Should Win?

Economic

Review of Recent Midwest DSM Potential Studies

Economic Development

Market Transformation and Guiding Principles of Sustainability

Economic Impact

Evaluating the Performance and Economics of Transpired Solar Collectors for Commercial Applications

Market Transformation and Guiding Principles of Sustainability

Economizer

Benchmarking and Equipment and Controls Assessment for a 'Big Box' Retail Chain

Energy Implications of Economizer Use in California Data Centers

Field Testing of Commercial Rooftop Units Directed at Performance Verification

Education

Engaging Occupants in Green Building Performance: Addressing the Knowledge Gap

Scoring Our Schools: Program Implementation Lessons-Learned from Benchmarking Over 1, 775 Schools for Seven Utilities

Standards Education and Training Program as a Resource Program

Transforming Energy Behaviors of Households: Evidence from Low-Income Energy Education Programs

Transforming Ourselves While Transforming the Market: Turning Technical Expertise into the Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings

Efficacy

Magical Mystery Devices or Not: How Do LED Lamps and Luminaires Really Measure-Up?

Efficiency

Accelerating the Adoption of Energy Efficient Business and Consumer Electronics

Adapting to Serve the Commercial New Construction Market in Oregon

Addressing Climate Change Concerns at the Municipal Level: A Case Study of the City of Sunnyvale, California

Assessing the Impact of Behavioral Energy Efficiency Measures: A Simulation Approach

Benchmarking and Equipment and Controls Assessment for a 'Big Box' Retail Chain

Breaking Down the Barriers to Efficiency Improvements in the Rental Housing Market: One Utility's Approach

Engaging Employees in Conservation Leadership

Estimating National Carbon Savings Potential from Electricity Demand Reduction in Buildings

Furnace Blower Electricity: National and Regional Savings Potential

Halving Residential Lighting Energy Use by 2020: What a Multi-Stakeholder Target and Approach Means for Efficiency Programs

Home Performance with ENERGY STAR: Accelerating Energy Efficiency Improvements in Existing Homes

Incorrect Business Assumptions and Misappropriation of Cooling Resources, or Why Do We Bring Sweaters to Movie Theaters in the Summer?

Leading the Way: BPA's Efforts to Accelerate Energy Efficiency in the Northwest

Least Cost Path to Achieving 50% Reduction in Residential Energy Use (in Heating Climates)

Targeted Marketing Strategies that Increase Energy Efficiency Program Participation of Commercial Companies

The Advantages of Highly Controlled Lighting for Offices and Commercial Buildings

The State of Solid State Lighting: What Programs Need to Know

Value of Energy Efficiency from Water/Wastewater

Elasticity

Estimating National Carbon Savings Potential from Electricity Demand Reduction in Buildings

Electric

Deal or No Deal? Pros and Cons of Trading under an Energy Efficiency Resource Standard

Electric Appliances

Consumer Electronics Efficiency Programs: The Next Big Challenge

ENERGY STAR Quantity Quotes: A New Tool for Reaching Large Purchasers of Energy-Efficient Products

Low Power Mode Energy Use in California Homes

Electric Equipment

U.S. Residential Miscellaneous Electric Loads Electricity Consumption

Electric Industry Restructuring

Creating Regulatory Structures for Robust Demand Response Participation in Organized Wholesale Electric Markets

Designing a Successful Demand Response Program: It's Not Your Grandfather's Load Control Program

Making Waves in the Heartland: How Illinois' Experience with Residential Real-Time Pricing Can Be a National Model

Electric Utilities

A Plea for Simpler Electricity Tariffs

Collaborative Two-Part AMI Programs for Demand Response and Energy Efficiency

Saving More with ENERGY STAR

The Sustainability and Costs of Increasing Efficiency Impacts: Evidence from Experience to Date

TOU Rates As If Prices Mattered: Reviving an Industry Standard for Today's Utility Environment

Universal Energy Benchmarking for Commercial Buildings: Making It a Reality in California

Update on Utility Energy Efficiency Programs in the Southwest

Electrical Savings

Lighting the Great Outdoors: LEDs in Exterior Applications

Promoting Combined Heat and Power (CHP) for Multifamily Properties

The Sustainability and Costs of Increasing Efficiency Impacts: Evidence from Experience to Date

Electrical Submetering

Integration of Energy Management, Electrical Submetering and Time Sensitive Pricing in a Large Residential Community Utilizing Wireless Communications

Electricity

Engaging Employees in Conservation Leadership

Estimating National Carbon Savings Potential from Electricity Demand Reduction in Buildings

Furnace Blower Electricity: National and Regional Savings Potential

International Comparison of Household Energy Consumption and its Indicator

Low Power Mode Energy Use in California Homes

Segmenting Residential Customers: Energy and Conservation Behaviors

The Boom of Electricity Demand in the Residential Sector in the Developing World and the Potential for Energy Efficiency

Electricity Planning

DSM Potential Studies Are Alive and Well and Living in Canada

Electricity Rates

Is Energy Efficiency Enough? An Exploration of California's Per Capita Electricity Consumption Trends

Electricity Savings

Up On the Roof: From the Past to the Future

Electrification

Improving Electricity Services and Reducing Energy Losses for the Urban Poor

Electronics

Accelerating the Adoption of Energy Efficient Business and Consumer Electronics

Achieving Real Energy Savings through Consumer Electronics Programs

Canadian Standby Power Study of Consumer Electronics and Appliances

Consumer Electronics Efficiency Programs: The Next Big Challenge

Low Power Mode Energy Use in California Homes

Embedded Energy

Better than the Sum of their Parts: Taking Advantage of the Water-Energy Nexus to Create Dual-Funded Partnership Programs

EMCS

Transforming the Practices of Building Operation and Maintenance Professionals: A Washington State Pilot Program

Emerging

LED Lighting: Applying Lessons Learned from the CFL Experience

Emissions

Energy Efficiency and Emission Trading Schemes

Who’s Ahead? Climate Cities Benchmark in Japan, U.S. and Germany

Emissions Trading

Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due: Energy Efficiency in CO2 Emissions Trading

Employee

Engaging Employees in Conservation Leadership

End Use

A Method for Deriving an Empirical Hourly Base Load Shape from Utility Hourly Total Load Records

Consumer Electronics Efficiency Programs: The Next Big Challenge

Dynamic Energy Management

Not Just Energy Savings: Emerging Regulatory Challenges from the Implementation of Tradable White Certificates

U.S. Residential Miscellaneous Electric Loads Electricity Consumption

End-Use Energy Efficiency

Bringing End-Use Energy Efficiency to the European Emissions Trading Scheme: Outlook for the Third Trading Period

End-Use Intensity

An End-Use Intensity Study of the Residential Sector

End-Use Interaction

A Buildings Module for the Stochastic Energy Deployment System

End-Use Metering

Lessons Learned in Selecting Impact Evaluation Methodologies: Metering, Modeling, or Billing Analysis?

End-Use Models

Life-Cycle Environmental Impacts of the Canadian Residential Sector

Energy

Accelerating the Adoption of Energy Efficient Business and Consumer Electronics

Adapting to Serve the Commercial New Construction Market in Oregon

Assessing the Impact of Behavioral Energy Efficiency Measures: A Simulation Approach

Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS): The Process of Mainstreaming Efficiency in Action and the Evolution of CHPS

Incorrect Business Assumptions and Misappropriation of Cooling Resources, or Why Do We Bring Sweaters to Movie Theaters in the Summer?

National Commercial Construction Characteristics and Compliance with Building Energy Codes: 1999-2007

On a Crash Course? How Two Programs Avoid a Market Collision and Work Together

Targeted Marketing Strategies that Increase Energy Efficiency Program Participation of Commercial Companies

Value of Energy Efficiency from Water/Wastewater

Energy Analysis

DOE's Commercial Building Benchmarks — Development of Typical Construction Practices for Building Envelope and Mechanical Systems from the 2003 Commercial Building Energy Consumption Survey

Maine New Homes: How a Baseline Study Can Set You Straight

Moving Ducts Inside: Big Builders, Scientists Find Common Ground

Streamlining the Small New Construction Market: A Prescriptive Approach to Comprehensive Savings with Core Performance

Targeting Energy Efficiency in Commercial Buildings Using Advanced Billing Analysis

Energy Audits

Water-Wastewater Program Best Practices: Lessons from the Field

Energy Benchmarking

The Divergence Problem — Meeting "AIA 2030 Challenge" Standards with Existing Buildings: A New York City Tenant Case Study

Energy Calculations

Modeling the Impacts of Performance Components in Super Energy Efficient House Designs in Different Climate Zones

Energy Conservation

A Tale of Two Houses: The Human Dimension of Demand Response Enabling Technology from a Case Study of an Adaptive Wireless Thermostat

Extreme Efficiency: How Far Can We Go If We Really Need To?

Home Performance with Energy Star: Utility Bill Analysis on Homes Participating in Austin Energy's Program

International Comparison of Household Energy Consumption and its Indicator

Japan's Residential Energy Demand Outlook to 2030 Considering Energy Efficiency Standards "Top-Runner Approach"

Segmentation in a Mass Media Energy Campaign

Sustainable Baltimore ASAP: Assessment Study and Action Plan

Tackling Efficiency Paradoxes: Responses to "Energy-Efficient" 10,000 sq. ft. Houses and 50-inch Televisions

The Sustainability and Costs of Increasing Efficiency Impacts: Evidence from Experience to Date

Energy Consumption

Minnesota B3 Benchmarking Results: Prioritizing the Energy Savings Opportunity in Minnesota Public Buildings

Why, What, When, How, Where, and Who? Developing UK Policy on Metering, Billing and Energy Display Devices

Energy Demand

Energy Efficiency and Changes in Energy Demand Behavior

Japan's Residential Energy Demand Outlook to 2030 Considering Energy Efficiency Standards "Top-Runner Approach"

Life-Cycle Environmental Impacts of the Canadian Residential Sector

Energy Education

Breaking Down Silos: Bridging the Communications and Knowledge Gap between Departments to Implement Energy Efficiency in the Public Sector

Changing Behaviors: Market Transformation Web Sites as Online Narrative

Deep Energy Savings in a Small Office Building: The Southface Eco-Office Demonstration and Research Project

Energy Efficiency Mass Distribution Program Innovations

Refrigerator Early Retirement, Replacement and Recycling with Community Partners

Teaching Customers to Value Energy Efficiency: A Comparison of CFL Fund Raisers

Energy Efficiency

80 PLUS: Market Impacts and Lessons Learned

A Comparison of Per-Capita Electricity Consumption in the United States and California

A Market-Based Approach to Energy Efficiency in Hospitality

A New Community Compact: How One Utility Plans to Meet Increasing Resource and Environmental Challenges

Adaptive Climate Protection Policy: Designing a Market-Based Instrument to Promote the Emergence of Carbon-Neutral, Green Buildings

Appliance Energy Use in America's Second Home: The Automobile

Assessment of Achievable Potential for Energy Efficiency and Demand Response in the U.S. (2010—2030)

Barriers to Greater Energy Efficiency within the Building Industry

Best Practices and Lessons Learned from EPA/DOE's Home Performance with ENERGY STAR Program

Best Practices in Community Energy-Efficiency and Renewable Energy Partnership Programs

Boulder's Carbon Tax: Building a Foundation for Community Climate Action

Breaking Down Silos: Bridging the Communications and Knowledge Gap between Departments to Implement Energy Efficiency in the Public Sector

Building a Green Capital City: The Natural Step to Madison's Sustainable Design and Energy Future

Can Conventional Cooling Equipment Meet Dehumidification Needs for Houses in Humid Climates?

Case Study: The Effectiveness of Zero Energy Home Strategies in the Marketplace

Collaborating for Success: How Arkansas Got It Right

Comparison of Commercial LEED Buildings and Non-LEED Buildings within the 2002-2004 Pacific Northwest Commercial Building Stock

Cooking Up a New Approach for Program Design II: A Recipe for Success

Creating Regulatory Structures for Robust Demand Response Participation in Organized Wholesale Electric Markets

DSM Potential Studies Are Alive and Well and Living in Canada

Dynamic Energy Management

Energy Efficiency and Climate Change Mitigation Policy

Energy Efficiency Mass Distribution Program Innovations

Energy Efficiency Portfolio of the Future

Energy Efficiency, Emissions, and Policy: Strengthening the Links

Energy Efficiency's Impact on California's Renewable Energy Development

Energy Savings Estimates of Light Emitting Diodes in Niche Lighting Applications

EPA Climate Choice: Promoting Emerging Technologies That Protect the Climate

Extreme Energy Efficiency on the Path to Climate Stability: A Tale of Two Municipalities

Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due: Energy Efficiency in CO2 Emissions Trading

Greater Impacts at Reasonable Costs: Setting and Meeting Energy Efficiency Resource Standards with Best Practices

Greening the U.S. House of Representatives

High Performance Homes in the Southwest: Savings Potential, Cost Effectiveness and Policy Options

Home Performance with ENERGY STAR® in California: Moving Into the Spotlight

How Energy Efficient Are Modern Dishwashers?

How Much More Does It Cost to Build an ENERGY STAR® Home? Incremental Cost Estimation Process

Improving Electricity Services and Reducing Energy Losses for the Urban Poor

International Comparison of Energy Efficiency Standard and Labels: Development Process and Implementation Phase

Is Energy Efficiency Enough? An Exploration of California's Per Capita Electricity Consumption Trends

It's the Size of the Reduction Target, Stupid! The Need for a Wholesale Re-Think of Energy Efficiency Policy in UK Housing

Japan's Residential Energy Demand Outlook to 2030 Considering Energy Efficiency Standards "Top-Runner Approach"

Leading by Example: Streamlining EE in the Local Government Sector

Lighting the Great Outdoors: LEDs in Exterior Applications

Maine New Homes: How a Baseline Study Can Set You Straight

Making Aggressive Levels of Efficiency "Business as Usual" — California's Strategic Plan for the Next Generation of Energy Efficiency

Moving to New Regulatory Frameworks that Leverage Market Forces to Maximize Societal Uptake of Energy Efficiency

Not Just Energy Savings: Emerging Regulatory Challenges from the Implementation of Tradable White Certificates

On-Bill Financing of Small Business Energy Efficiency: An Evolving Success Story

Playing with the Big Boys: Energy Efficiency as a Resource in the ISO New England Forward Capacity Market

Quantifying the Effect of the Principal-Agent Problem on U.S. Residential Energy Use

Quantitative Financial Analysis of Alternative Energy Efficiency Program Incentive Mechanisms

Refrigerator Early Retirement, Replacement and Recycling with Community Partners

Savings Estimates for the United States Environmental Protection Agency's ENERGY STAR Voluntary Product Labeling Program

Shifting the Paradigm to Achieve Big, Bold Energy-Efficiency Initiatives in California

Smart Metering: What Works and What Doesn't

Summing It Up: The National Action Plan's New Program Impact Evaluation Guide

The Development of an Evaluation, Measurement and Verification Forum for the Northeast Region

The International State of Building System Commissioning

The Road to Carbon Neutral: ENERGY STAR for Homes and Beyond

The Sustainability and Costs of Increasing Efficiency Impacts: Evidence from Experience to Date

The Value of Advanced Technologies in the U.S. Buildings Sector in Climate Change Mitigation

Upstream with Residential HVAC Programming in the Northeast

Variable Refrigerant Flow: An Emerging Air Conditioner and Heat Pump Technology

Walking the Aisles: Designing Research to Understand CFL Purchase Motivations at the Time of Sale

Walking the Walk: Considering Non-Transmission Alternatives in Utility Planning, Part Deux

Welcome to your Home Energy Makeover

Energy Efficiency Acquisitions

What Does It Take to Turn Load Growth Negative? A View from the Leading Edge

Energy Efficiency Credits (EECs)

Deal or No Deal? Pros and Cons of Trading under an Energy Efficiency Resource Standard

Energy Efficiency Goals

Energy Efficiency as the First Resource: Opportunities, Challenges, and Beating the Next Bust

Energy Efficiency Measures

The Divergence Problem — Meeting "AIA 2030 Challenge" Standards with Existing Buildings: A New York City Tenant Case Study

Energy Efficiency Policy

Meeting GHG Emissions Reductions Goals While Keeping the Lights On: The Role of Energy Efficiency

Modelling the Relationship between Energy Efficiency Attributes and House Price: The Case of Detached Houses Sold in the Australian Capital Territory in 2005 and 2006

Energy Efficiency Potential

Energy Efficiency as the First Resource: Opportunities, Challenges, and Beating the Next Bust

State-Level Energy Efficiency Analysis: Goals, Methods and Lessons Learned

Energy Efficiency Programs

Breaking Down Silos: Bridging the Communications and Knowledge Gap between Departments to Implement Energy Efficiency in the Public Sector

Dynamic Energy Management

Retrocommissioning: A Persistence Study

Saving More with ENERGY STAR

What's Working Well: Lessons from a National Review of Exemplary Energy Efficiency Programs

Energy Efficiency Rating (EER)

Measured Effect of Air Flow and Refrigerant Charge on a High-Performance Heat Pump

Peak Demand and Energy Savings from Properly Sized and Matched Air Conditioners

Energy Efficiency Resource Standard (EERS)

Deal or No Deal? Pros and Cons of Trading under an Energy Efficiency Resource Standard

Energy Efficiency Savings

Assessment of Achievable Potential for Energy Efficiency and Demand Response in the U.S. (2010—2030)

Energy Efficiency Trends

CFLs, Mercury and Mayhem! The Energy Efficiency Community Responds

Extreme Efficiency: How Far Can We Go If We Really Need To?

Energy Efficiency Utility

Taking the Efficiency Utility Model to the Next Level

Energy-Efficient Lighting

Scalable Commercial Lighting Solutions for the Mainstream Market

Energy Expenditures

Greening the U.S. House of Representatives

Energy Feedback

A Tale of Two Houses: The Human Dimension of Demand Response Enabling Technology from a Case Study of an Adaptive Wireless Thermostat

Behavior: The Final Frontier

Energy Information Programs

Breaking Down Silos: Bridging the Communications and Knowledge Gap between Departments to Implement Energy Efficiency in the Public Sector

Changing Behaviors: Market Transformation Web Sites as Online Narrative

Quantifying the Effect of the Principal-Agent Problem on U.S. Residential Energy Use

Universal Energy Benchmarking for Commercial Buildings: Making It a Reality in California

Energy Intensities

Universal Energy Benchmarking for Commercial Buildings: Making It a Reality in California

Energy Label

International Comparison of Energy Efficiency Standard and Labels: Development Process and Implementation Phase

Tackling Efficiency Paradoxes: Responses to "Energy-Efficient" 10,000 sq. ft. Houses and 50-inch Televisions

Energy Management

Demand Response-Enabled Residential Thermostat Controls

Designing a Successful Demand Response Program: It's Not Your Grandfather's Load Control Program

Dynamic Energy Management

Enhancing Price Response Programs through Auto-DR: California's 2007 Implementation Experience

Leading by Example: Streamlining EE in the Local Government Sector

Energy Modeling

How Accurate Is Energy Modeling in the Market?

Energy Network

The Operation Result of the Demonstration of Energy Networks of Electricity, Heat, and Hydrogen at an Apartment Building in 2007

Energy Performance

Comparison of Commercial LEED Buildings and Non-LEED Buildings within the 2002-2004 Pacific Northwest Commercial Building Stock

Energy Policy

A Comparison of Per-Capita Electricity Consumption in the United States and California

Consumer Electronics Efficiency Programs: The Next Big Challenge

DOE's Commercial Buildings Program: A Market-Based Approach to Zero Energy Performance

International Comparison of Energy Efficiency Standard and Labels: Development Process and Implementation Phase

Leading by Example: Streamlining EE in the Local Government Sector

Making Waves in the Heartland: How Illinois' Experience with Residential Real-Time Pricing Can Be a National Model

Mandates for Maximizing Cost-Effective Measures in Building Energy Codes: The Promise and Pitfalls during Times of Rapid Evolution

Shifting the Paradigm to Achieve Big, Bold Energy-Efficiency Initiatives in California

Standby Power: Building a Coherent International Policy Framework

The Road to Carbon Neutral: ENERGY STAR for Homes and Beyond

The Sustainability and Costs of Increasing Efficiency Impacts: Evidence from Experience to Date

Update on Utility Energy Efficiency Programs in the Southwest

Energy Savings

A Comparison of Per-Capita Electricity Consumption in the United States and California

Behaviour and Energy Savings in Residential Dwellings

CABA's Intelligent Building Programs

Debating Net Versus Gross Impacts in the Northeast: Policy and Program Perspectives

Deep Energy Savings in a Small Office Building: The Southface Eco-Office Demonstration and Research Project

Energy Implications of Economizer Use in California Data Centers

Energy Savings Estimates of Light Emitting Diodes in Niche Lighting Applications

Energy-Related Water Fixture Measurements: Securing the Baseline for Northwest Single Family Homes

EPA ENERGY STAR: Tackling Growth in Home Electronics and Small Appliances

Government Partnership: Measuring Indirect Impacts on the Community

Greater Impacts at Reasonable Costs: Setting and Meeting Energy Efficiency Resource Standards with Best Practices

Multifamily New Construction: Utility Program Leads the Way Toward Changing Building Practice and Energy Codes

New California PIER R&D Product Introduction Process

Next Generation Roofs and Attics for Homes

Tackling Efficiency Paradoxes: Responses to "Energy-Efficient" 10,000 sq. ft. Houses and 50-inch Televisions

Targeting Energy Efficiency in Commercial Buildings Using Advanced Billing Analysis

The Advantages of Highly Controlled Lighting for Offices and Commercial Buildings

The Challenge of Vapor-Diaphragm Thermostat Retrofits in Existing Multifamily Buildings

Energy Service Companies

Not Just Energy Savings: Emerging Regulatory Challenges from the Implementation of Tradable White Certificates

Energy Services

How the "Dirty Dozen" ECMs Created a Need for a Risk Assessment Tool

Improving Electricity Services and Reducing Energy Losses for the Urban Poor

Energy Star®

80 PLUS: Market Impacts and Lessons Learned

Achieving Real Energy Savings through Consumer Electronics Programs

ENERGY STAR Qualified Fixtures See the Light of Day: How the Puget Sound Effort Changed the Market

ENERGY STAR Quantity Quotes: A New Tool for Reaching Large Purchasers of Energy-Efficient Products

EPA Climate Choice: Promoting Emerging Technologies That Protect the Climate

EPA ENERGY STAR: Tackling Growth in Home Electronics and Small Appliances

Home Performance with ENERGY STAR: Accelerating Energy Efficiency Improvements in Existing Homes

Home Performance with Energy Star: Utility Bill Analysis on Homes Participating in Austin Energy's Program

Home Performance with ENERGY STAR® in California: Moving Into the Spotlight

Implications of Ownership in the U.S. and U.K.: An Exploration of ENERGY STAR® Buildings & the Energy Efficiency Accreditation Scheme

Magical Mystery Devices or Not: How Do LED Lamps and Luminaires Really Measure-Up?

Market Penetration of ENERGY STAR Qualified Appliances: An Analysis of Various Predictor Variables

Preparing for the Sunset of Incandescent Bulbs

Residential Building Code Change: Market Transformation Success, Back to the Beginning for ENERGY STAR Homes Program Implementation

Savings Estimates for the United States Environmental Protection Agency's ENERGY STAR Voluntary Product Labeling Program

Tackling Efficiency Paradoxes: Responses to "Energy-Efficient" 10,000 sq. ft. Houses and 50-inch Televisions

The Power of Point-of-Purchase Signage

The Road to Carbon Neutral: ENERGY STAR for Homes and Beyond

Universal Energy Benchmarking for Commercial Buildings: Making It a Reality in California

Energy Storage

Distributed Energy Resources On-Site Optimization for Commercial Buildings with Electric and Thermal Storage Technologies

Energy Trust of Oregon

Selling Efficiency amid the Green Revolution: Innovative Marketing Approaches at Three Statewide Efficiency Programs

Energy Use

Green Location: The Critical Role of Land Use in Climate Change and Energy Consumption

EnergyPlus

DOE Commercial Building Benchmark Models

Engagement

Engaging Employees in Conservation Leadership

Taking It to the Streets: Innovative Public Engagement Process on Vermont's Electricity Future

Enhanced Self Report

Attribution Methodology Wars: Self-Report Methods versus Statistical Number Crunching — Which Should Win?

Environment

On a Crash Course? How Two Programs Avoid a Market Collision and Work Together

Environmental Externalities

Life-Cycle Environmental Impacts of the Canadian Residential Sector

Mandates for Maximizing Cost-Effective Measures in Building Energy Codes: The Promise and Pitfalls during Times of Rapid Evolution

Environmental Impact

CFLs, Mercury and Mayhem! The Energy Efficiency Community Responds

Energy Efficiency, Emissions, and Policy: Strengthening the Links

Life-Cycle Environmental Impacts of the Canadian Residential Sector

Promoting Combined Heat and Power (CHP) for Multifamily Properties

Environmental Policy

CFLs, Mercury and Mayhem! The Energy Efficiency Community Responds

Extreme Efficiency: How Far Can We Go If We Really Need To?

Market Transformation and Guiding Principles of Sustainability

The Road to Carbon Neutral: ENERGY STAR for Homes and Beyond

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Scoring Our Schools: Program Implementation Lessons-Learned from Benchmarking Over 1,775 Schools for Seven Utilities

Environmental Sustainability

Extreme Efficiency: How Far Can We Go If We Really Need To?

Greening Communities: Integrating Climate Protection Policies into Local Governments' General Plans through Online Collaboration

Market Transformation and Guiding Principles of Sustainability

Moving to New Regulatory Frameworks that Leverage Market Forces to Maximize Societal Uptake of Energy Efficiency

Equipment Rating

National Cooling Initiative: What Are We Waiting For?

Estimating Savings

Better than the Sum of their Parts: Taking Advantage of the Water-Energy Nexus to Create Dual-Funded Partnership Programs

Energy Efficiency as the First Resource: Opportunities, Challenges, and Beating the Next Bust

Estimating Energy Savings for a Commercial Market Transformation Initiative

Moving to New Regulatory Frameworks that Leverage Market Forces to Maximize Societal Uptake of Energy Efficiency

Streamlining the Small New Construction Market: A Prescriptive Approach to Comprehensive Savings with Core Performance

European Emission Trading Scheme

Bringing End-Use Energy Efficiency to the European Emissions Trading Scheme: Outlook for the Third Trading Period

Energy Efficiency and Emission Trading Schemes

Evaluation

Energy Efficiency Mass Distribution Program Innovations

Lessons Learned in Selecting Impact Evaluation Methodologies: Metering, Modeling, or Billing Analysis?

Moving to New Regulatory Frameworks that Leverage Market Forces to Maximize Societal Uptake of Energy Efficiency

On-Bill Financing of Small Business Energy Efficiency: An Evolving Success Story

Preaching to the Choir: Are Repeat Participants Free Riders?

Risky Business: Development and Implementation of a Risk Assessment Strategy to Guide Program Evaluation

Strategies and Policies for Improving Energy Efficiency Programs: Closing the Loop Between Evaluation and Implementation

Summing It Up: The National Action Plan's New Program Impact Evaluation Guide

The Development of an Evaluation, Measurement and Verification Forum for the Northeast Region

Transforming Energy Behaviors of Households: Evidence from Low-Income Energy Education Programs

Evaluation, Measurement & Verification (EM&V)

Summing It Up: The National Action Plan's New Program Impact Evaluation Guide

Evaluation Methods

Better than the Sum of their Parts: Taking Advantage of the Water-Energy Nexus to Create Dual-Funded Partnership Programs

Free-Ridership Measurement Is Out of Sync with Program Logic… or, We've Got the Structure Built, but What's its Foundation?

Lessons Learned in Selecting Impact Evaluation Methodologies: Metering, Modeling, or Billing Analysis?

Moving to New Regulatory Frameworks that Leverage Market Forces to Maximize Societal Uptake of Energy Efficiency

Utility Codes and Standards Programs: How Much Energy Do They Save?

Evaluation Planning

Lessons Learned in Selecting Impact Evaluation Methodologies: Metering, Modeling, or Billing Analysis?

Evaporative Cooling

21st Century Cooling Strategies for Large Retail Facilities in Dry Climates

Compressor Confusion: Field Findings on the Role of Supplemental Cooling in a Commercial Indirect Evaporative Air Conditioner

Excess Air

Common Boiler Excess Air Trends and Strategies to Optimize Efficiency

Existing Building Retrofits

The Divergence Problem — Meeting "AIA 2030 Challenge" Standards with Existing Buildings: A New York City Tenant Case Study

Existing Buildings

An Integrated Whole Building Diagnostic Approach to Improving California's Existing Multifamily Buildings

Deep Energy Reductions in Existing Homes: Strategies for Implementation

DOE's Commercial Building Benchmarks — Development of Typical Construction Practices for Building Envelope and Mechanical Systems from the 2003 Commercial Building Energy Consumption Survey

Energy Efficient Lighting in Historic Buildings

Energy-Related Water Fixture Measurements: Securing the Baseline for Northwest Single Family Homes

From Single Commercial Buildings to Portfolios: Streamlining LEED® Documentation for Volume Customers

Home Performance with ENERGY STAR: Accelerating Energy Efficiency Improvements in Existing Homes

Home Performance with ENERGY STAR® in California: Moving Into the Spotlight

It's the Size of the Reduction Target, Stupid! The Need for a Wholesale Re-Think of Energy Efficiency Policy in UK Housing

Minnesota B3 Benchmarking Results: Prioritizing the Energy Savings Opportunity in Minnesota Public Buildings

Property Agents in the UK: Some Reflections on the Social Production of Desirable Space

The Challenge of Vapor-Diaphragm Thermostat Retrofits in Existing Multifamily Buildings

Universal Energy Benchmarking for Commercial Buildings: Making It a Reality in California

Experiences

Smart Metering: What Works and What Doesn't

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The Commercial Building Market Structure: An Act with Five Players

Fans

Up On the Roof: From the Past to the Future

Federal Buildings

Energy Design Guides for Army Barracks

Greening the U.S. House of Representatives

Fee-Based Property Manager

The Commercial Building Market Structure: An Act with Five Players

Feedback

Smart Metering: What Works and What Doesn't

Field Monitoring

Field Monitoring of High Efficiency Residential Heat Pumps

Field Test

Demand Response-Enabled Residential Thermostat Controls

Field Monitoring of Wall Vapor Control Strategies in the Pacific Northwest

Financial Incentives

The Evolution of a Successful Efficiency Program: Energy Savings Bid

Financial Mechanisms

Modeling Approaches to Building Energy Efficiency

Financing

On-Bill Financing of Small Business Energy Efficiency: An Evolving Success Story

Sustainable Baltimore ASAP: Assessment Study and Action Plan

Fixtures

Avoiding Fluorescent Dimming Pitfalls for Daylight Harvesting

Halving Residential Lighting Energy Use by 2020: What a Multi-Stakeholder Target and Approach Means for Efficiency Programs

Fluorescent Lighting

A Bright Idea in Commercial Lighting: New Brunswick's Success with an Upstream Incentive Approach

A New "Twist" on a CFL Program: How One Utility Capitalized on a Creative Approach

Avoiding Fluorescent Dimming Pitfalls for Daylight Harvesting

CFL Program Strategy Review: No Programmatic "Silver Bullet"

CFLs, Mercury and Mayhem! The Energy Efficiency Community Responds

ENERGY STAR Quantity Quotes: A New Tool for Reaching Large Purchasers of Energy-Efficient Products

Measuring CFL Markets: A Collaborative Regional Study on the Northwest's Largest Efficiency Resource

Preparing for the Sunset of Incandescent Bulbs

The Power of Point-of-Purchase Signage

Way Beyond Widgets: Delivering Integrated Lighting Design in Actionable Solutions

Who's Buying CFLs? Who's Not Buying Them? Findings from a Large-Scale, Nationwide Survey

Focus on Energy

Building and Remodeling a New Construction Program

Selling Efficiency amid the Green Revolution: Innovative Marketing Approaches at Three Statewide Efficiency Programs

Food Service

A High Energy Diet: The Impact of Lifestyle Changes on Energy Consumption in Food Sales and Food Service

Case Studies in Restaurant Water Heating

What's Cooking? Commercial Building Trends in the Food Services Industry

Forced Air Systems

Systems Research on Residential Ventilation

Forecasting

A Buildings Module for the Stochastic Energy Deployment System

Assessment of Achievable Potential for Energy Efficiency and Demand Response in the U.S. (2010—2030)

Beyond Supply Curves

Energy Efficiency as the First Resource: Opportunities, Challenges, and Beating the Next Bust

Japan's Residential Energy Demand Outlook to 2030 Considering Energy Efficiency Standards "Top-Runner Approach"

Forward Capacity Market

Playing with the Big Boys: Energy Efficiency as a Resource in the ISO New England Forward Capacity Market

Free-Riders

Attribution Methodology Wars: Self-Report Methods versus Statistical Number Crunching — Which Should Win?

Debating Net Versus Gross Impacts in the Northeast: Policy and Program Perspectives

Free-Ridership Measurement Is Out of Sync with Program Logic… or, We've Got the Structure Built, but What's its Foundation?

Preaching to the Choir: Are Repeat Participants Free Riders?

Fuel Cell

The Operation Result of the Demonstration of Energy Networks of Electricity, Heat, and Hydrogen at an Apartment Building in 2007

Function

Standby Power: Building a Coherent International Policy Framework

Furnace

Furnace Blower Electricity: National and Regional Savings Potential

Future

Taking It to the Streets: Innovative Public Engagement Process on Vermont's Electricity Future

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Deal or No Deal? Pros and Cons of Trading under an Energy Efficiency Resource Standard

Gas Appliances

A Market Transformation Strategy for Gas-Fired Domestic Hot Water Heaters

Gas Equipment

A Market Transformation Strategy for Gas-Fired Domestic Hot Water Heaters

Gas Fired

Case Studies in Restaurant Water Heating

Gas Sorption

Indoor Air Purification Technologies that Allow Reduced Outdoor Air Intake Rates While Maintaining Acceptable Levels of Indoor Air Quality

Gas Utilities

Universal Energy Benchmarking for Commercial Buildings: Making It a Reality in California

Generation

Coming Climate Change Policy and the Effect on Energy Efficiency

Geographic Targeting

Fast Capacity Reduction through Geographically Targeted, Aggressive Efficiency Investment: Early Results from a Vermont Experiment

Germany

Who’s Ahead? Climate Cities Benchmark in Japan, U.S. and Germany

Global Climate Change

Moving to New Regulatory Frameworks that Leverage Market Forces to Maximize Societal Uptake of Energy Efficiency

Global Temperature Adjustment

Enhancing Price Response Programs through Auto-DR: California's 2007 Implementation Experience

Global Warming

Adaptive Climate Protection Policy: Designing a Market-Based Instrument to Promote the Emergence of Carbon-Neutral, Green Buildings

Energy Efficiency and Climate Change Mitigation Policy

EPA Climate Choice: Promoting Emerging Technologies That Protect the Climate

Extreme Efficiency: How Far Can We Go If We Really Need To?

Is Climate Change a Good Thing? Opportunities and Barriers to Using Climate Change to Motivate Efficiency

National Cooling Initiative: What Are We Waiting For?

Globalization

A High Energy Diet: The Impact of Lifestyle Changes on Energy Consumption in Food Sales and Food Service

Goal

Halving Residential Lighting Energy Use by 2020: What a Multi-Stakeholder Target and Approach Means for Efficiency Programs

Government

Making Fresh AIRE Out of Thin Air: Launching a Local Climate Action Initiative With Minimal State and Utility Involvement

GPRA

A Buildings Module for the Stochastic Energy Deployment System

Green

Greening Leased Spaces: Opportunities and Challenges

Industry-Led Market Transformation

The Greening of Retail: Opportunities for Increased Retail Engagement on Energy Efficiency

Green Building

Adaptive Climate Protection Policy: Designing a Market-Based Instrument to Promote the Emergence of Carbon-Neutral, Green Buildings

Building a Green Capital City: The Natural Step to Madison's Sustainable Design and Energy Future

On a Crash Course? How Two Programs Avoid a Market Collision and Work Together

Green Marketing

Selling Efficiency amid the Green Revolution: Innovative Marketing Approaches at Three Statewide Efficiency Programs

Greenhouse Gas

Energy Efficiency and Climate Change Mitigation Policy

Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due: Energy Efficiency in CO2 Emissions Trading

Is Climate Change a Good Thing? Opportunities and Barriers to Using Climate Change to Motivate Efficiency

The New Landscape for Appliance Efficiency Standards

Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Boulder's Carbon Tax: Building a Foundation for Community Climate Action

Energy Efficiency, Emissions, and Policy: Strengthening the Links

EPA Climate Choice: Promoting Emerging Technologies That Protect the Climate

Greening Communities: Integrating Climate Protection Policies into Local Governments' General Plans through Online Collaboration

Life-Cycle Environmental Impacts of the Canadian Residential Sector

Quantifying the Third Leg: The Potential for Smart Growth to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Savings Estimates for the United States Environmental Protection Agency's ENERGY STAR Voluntary Product Labeling Program

The Boom of Electricity Demand in the Residential Sector in the Developing World and the Potential for Energy Efficiency

Greenhouse Gas Mitigation

Adaptive Climate Protection Policy: Designing a Market-Based Instrument to Promote the Emergence of Carbon-Neutral, Green Buildings

Appliance Energy Use in America's Second Home: The Automobile

Efficiency in a Climate-Constrained World: Are We Aiming High Enough?

Energy Efficiency and Climate Change Mitigation Policy

Greening Communities: Integrating Climate Protection Policies into Local Governments' General Plans through Online Collaboration

Pursuing Energy Efficiency as a Hedge against Carbon Regulatory Risks: Current Resource Planning Practices in the West

The Road to Carbon Neutral: ENERGY STAR for Homes and Beyond

Greening

The Greening of Retail: Opportunities for Increased Retail Engagement on Energy Efficiency

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Avoiding Fluorescent Dimming Pitfalls for Daylight Harvesting

HDAC

Field Tests of Specially Selected Air Conditioners for Hot Dry Climates

Hearings

Taking It to the Streets: Innovative Public Engagement Process on Vermont's Electricity Future

Heat Flow

Field Monitoring of Wall Vapor Control Strategies in the Pacific Northwest

Heat Pumps

Field Monitoring of High Efficiency Residential Heat Pumps

Measured Effect of Air Flow and Refrigerant Charge on a High-Performance Heat Pump

The Value of Advanced Technologies in the U.S. Buildings Sector in Climate Change Mitigation

Heat Storage

Distributed Energy Resources On-Site Optimization for Commercial Buildings with Electric and Thermal Storage Technologies

Heating

High Performance Homes in the Southwest: Savings Potential, Cost Effectiveness and Policy Options

International Comparison of Household Energy Consumption and its Indicator

Heating Load

Next Generation Roofs and Attics for Homes

Promoting Combined Heat and Power (CHP) for Multifamily Properties

Heating Seasonal Performance Factor (HSPF)

Field Monitoring of High Efficiency Residential Heat Pumps

Measured Effect of Air Flow and Refrigerant Charge on a High-Performance Heat Pump

HEEP

Residential Baseload Energy Use: Concept and Potential for AMI Customers

High Efficiency

Case Studies in Restaurant Water Heating

High-Performance Buildings

International Cooperation to Scale Up Adoption of High-Performance Buildings: From Novel to Normal

Transforming the Residential Buildings Market through High Performance Homes and a National Home Performance Label: The DOE Builders Challenge

Holistic

Barriers to Greater Energy Efficiency within the Building Industry

Modeling Approaches to Building Energy Efficiency

Home

Home Performance with ENERGY STAR: Accelerating Energy Efficiency Improvements in Existing Homes

On a Crash Course? How Two Programs Avoid a Market Collision and Work Together

Home Energy Rating Systems (HERS)

An Integrated Whole Building Diagnostic Approach to Improving California's Existing Multifamily Buildings

Least Cost Path to Achieving 50% Reduction in Residential Energy Use (in Heating Climates)

Maine New Homes: How a Baseline Study Can Set You Straight

Home Performance

Best Practices and Lessons Learned from EPA/DOE's Home Performance with ENERGY STAR Program

Home Performance with Energy Star: Utility Bill Analysis on Homes Participating in Austin Energy's Program

On a Crash Course? How Two Programs Avoid a Market Collision and Work Together

Transforming Ourselves While Transforming the Market: Turning Technical Expertise into the Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings

Hot Water Demand

HWSIM: Development and Validation of a Residential Hot Water Distribution System Model

House Energy Rating

Modelling the Relationship between Energy Efficiency Attributes and House Price: The Case of Detached Houses Sold in the Australian Capital Territory in 2005 and 2006

Households

Measuring CFL Markets: A Collaborative Regional Study on the Northwest's Largest Efficiency Resource

Standby Power: Building a Coherent International Policy Framework

Sustainable Baltimore ASAP: Assessment Study and Action Plan

Who's Buying CFLs? Who's Not Buying Them? Findings from a Large-Scale, Nationwide Survey

Houses

Manufactured Panelized Roof System for Residential Buildings

Housing

Cook County Energy Savers: How Energy Efficiency in Chicago's Multi-Family Buildings Has Evolved to Meet New Challenges from the 1980's to the Present Day

How$mart

Breaking Down the Barriers to Efficiency Improvements in the Rental Housing Market: One Utility's Approach

HPT8

Two Contrasting Markets & Approaches: Promoting Efficiency in the Province of New Brunswick and New England

Human Resources

A Blueprint for Re-Building a World Class Conservation Power Plant: Releasing the Hidden Dragon

Humidity

Wireless Sensor Technology for Data Centers

HVAC

Field Testing of Commercial Rooftop Units Directed at Performance Verification

Field Tests of Specially Selected Air Conditioners for Hot Dry Climates

Transforming the Practices of Building Operation and Maintenance Professionals: A Washington State Pilot Program

Variable Refrigerant Flow: An Emerging Air Conditioner and Heat Pump Technology

HVAC Controls

A Market-Based Approach to Energy Efficiency in Hospitality

Demand Response-Enabled Residential Thermostat Controls

Development of an Integrated Residential Humid Climate HVAC System

Systems Research on Residential Ventilation

Up On the Roof: From the Past to the Future

HVAC Systems

Moving Ducts Inside: Big Builders, Scientists Find Common Ground

Up On the Roof: From the Past to the Future

Upstream with Residential HVAC Programming in the Northeast

Hybrid

Making Fresh AIRE Out of Thin Air: Launching a Local Climate Action Initiative With Minimal State and Utility Involvement

Hybrid Air-Conditioning

Compressor Confusion: Field Findings on the Role of Supplemental Cooling in a Commercial Indirect Evaporative Air Conditioner

Hydrogen

The Operation Result of the Demonstration of Energy Networks of Electricity, Heat, and Hydrogen at an Apartment Building in 2007

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Compressor Confusion: Field Findings on the Role of Supplemental Cooling in a Commercial Indirect Evaporative Air Conditioner

Identity

Dollars or Sense: Economic versus Social Rationality in Residential Energy Consumption

Impact Evaluation

Communicating Thermostats for Residential Time-of-Use Rates: They Do Make a Difference

Experimental Evidence: A Residential Time of Use Pilot

Lessons Learned in Selecting Impact Evaluation Methodologies: Metering, Modeling, or Billing Analysis?

New Approaches to Residential Direct Load Control in California

Summing It Up: The National Action Plan's New Program Impact Evaluation Guide

Implementation

From Resource Acquisition to Relationships: How Energy Efficiency Initiatives Can Work Effectively with Large Commercial & Industrial Customers

Leading by Example: Streamlining EE in the Local Government Sector

Refrigerator Early Retirement, Replacement and Recycling with Community Partners

Strategies and Policies for Improving Energy Efficiency Programs: Closing the Loop Between Evaluation and Implementation

What Does It Take to Turn Load Growth Negative? A View from the Leading Edge

In-Store

Canadian Standby Power Study of Consumer Electronics and Appliances

Incandescent Lighting

Energy Efficient Lighting in Historic Buildings

Preparing for the Sunset of Incandescent Bulbs

Incentive Design

NYSERDA's Multifamily Performance Program: Rounding the First Turn

Incentive Mechanisms

Energy Efficiency and Climate Change Mitigation Policy

Not Just Energy Savings: Emerging Regulatory Challenges from the Implementation of Tradable White Certificates

Preparing for the Sunset of Incandescent Bulbs

Refrigerator Early Retirement, Replacement and Recycling with Community Partners

Incentives

A Bright Idea in Commercial Lighting: New Brunswick's Success with an Upstream Incentive Approach

Integration of Retail Demand Response with Midwest ISO Wholesale Markets

Making Fresh AIRE Out of Thin Air: Launching a Local Climate Action Initiative With Minimal State and Utility Involvement

Quantifying the "Real World" Impacts of Early Design Involvement and the Implications for New Construction Program Design, Implementation and Evaluation

Solar Water Heating: Ready for Prime Time?

Water-Wastewater Program Best Practices: Lessons from the Field

Indicator Set

Who’s Ahead? Climate Cities Benchmark in Japan, U.S. and Germany

Indoor Air Pollution

Maine's Model CFL Recycling Program

Indoor Air Purification Technologies

Indoor Air Purification Technologies that Allow Reduced Outdoor Air Intake Rates While Maintaining Acceptable Levels of Indoor Air Quality

Indoor Air Quality

Development of an Integrated Residential Humid Climate HVAC System

Indoor Air Purification Technologies that Allow Reduced Outdoor Air Intake Rates While Maintaining Acceptable Levels of Indoor Air Quality

Systems Research on Residential Ventilation

Industrial

Assessing the Impact of Behavioral Energy Efficiency Measures: A Simulation Approach

Quantifying the "Real World" Impacts of Early Design Involvement and the Implications for New Construction Program Design, Implementation and Evaluation

Industrial Mix

Is Energy Efficiency Enough? An Exploration of California's Per Capita Electricity Consumption Trends

Industrial Programs

Reaching Business and Industry: Lessons from 30 Years of Process Evaluation

Industry Restructuring

National Cooling Initiative: What Are We Waiting For?

Information

Bringing the Vision to Life: Will Advances in Energy Communication Create a Significant Resource Strategy?

Is Climate Change a Good Thing? Opportunities and Barriers to Using Climate Change to Motivate Efficiency

Installation

Avoiding Fluorescent Dimming Pitfalls for Daylight Harvesting

Institutional Barriers

Breaking Down Silos: Bridging the Communications and Knowledge Gap between Departments to Implement Energy Efficiency in the Public Sector

Energy Efficient Lighting in Historic Buildings

Networks in Buildings: Which Path Forward?

The Role of State Programs in Promoting New Energy Efficient Technologies

Institutional Factors

Property Agents in the UK: Some Reflections on the Social Production of Desirable Space

Insulation

Field Monitoring of Wall Vapor Control Strategies in the Pacific Northwest

Integrated Design

An Integrated Whole Building Diagnostic Approach to Improving California's Existing Multifamily Buildings

Integrated Resource Planning

Energy Efficiency as the First Resource: Opportunities, Challenges, and Beating the Next Bust

Pursuing Energy Efficiency as a Hedge against Carbon Regulatory Risks: Current Resource Planning Practices in the West

Walking the Walk: Considering Non-Transmission Alternatives in Utility Planning, Part Deux

Integrated Systems

Development of an Integrated Residential Humid Climate HVAC System

Dynamic Energy Management

Intelligence

CABA's Intelligent Building Programs

International

International Comparison of Household Energy Consumption and its Indicator

Networks in Buildings: Which Path Forward?

International Programs

Implications of Ownership in the U.S. and U.K.: An Exploration of ENERGY STAR® Buildings & the Energy Efficiency Accreditation Scheme

International Policies

The International State of Building System Commissioning

Interruptible Rates

Designing a Successful Demand Response Program: It's Not Your Grandfather's Load Control Program

Inventory

Making Fresh AIRE Out of Thin Air: Launching a Local Climate Action Initiative With Minimal State and Utility Involvement

Who’s Ahead? Climate Cities Benchmark in Japan, U.S. and Germany

Investment

Minnesota B3 Benchmarking Results: Prioritizing the Energy Savings Opportunity in Minnesota Public Buildings

ISO New England

Playing with the Big Boys: Energy Efficiency as a Resource in the ISO New England Forward Capacity Market

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Scoring Our Schools: Program Implementation Lessons-Learned from Benchmarking Over 1, 775 Schools for Seven Utilities

K-Means

Segmenting Residential Customers: Energy and Conservation Behaviors

Kerosene

International Comparison of Household Energy Consumption and its Indicator

Knowledge

Barriers to Greater Energy Efficiency within the Building Industry

Kyoto Protocol

Boulder's Carbon Tax: Building a Foundation for Community Climate Action

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How the Enforcement of MEPS in Australia Has Led to a Paradigm Shift in Supplier Attitudes

International Comparison of Energy Efficiency Standard and Labels: Development Process and Implementation Phase

Saving More with ENERGY STAR

Transforming the Residential Buildings Market through High Performance Homes and a National Home Performance Label: The DOE Builders Challenge

Lamp

Avoiding Fluorescent Dimming Pitfalls for Daylight Harvesting

Lamp Switching

Welcome to the Dark Side: The Effect of Switching on CFL Measure Life

Land Use

Green Location: The Critical Role of Land Use in Climate Change and Energy Consumption

Landlord

Greening Leased Spaces: Opportunities and Challenges

Leadership

Engaging Employees in Conservation Leadership

Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED)

Building a Green Capital City: The Natural Step to Madison's Sustainable Design and Energy Future

Comparison of Commercial LEED Buildings and Non-LEED Buildings within the 2002-2004 Pacific Northwest Commercial Building Stock

Green Building Performance Evaluation: Measured Results from LEED New Construction Buildings

How Accurate Is Energy Modeling in the Market?

Industry-Led Market Transformation

Learned

LED Lighting: Applying Lessons Learned from the CFL Experience

Lease

Greening Leased Spaces: Opportunities and Challenges

Least Cost

Least Cost Path to Achieving 50% Reduction in Residential Energy Use (in Heating Climates)

Least Cost Utility Planning

Energy Efficiency as the First Resource: Opportunities, Challenges, and Beating the Next Bust

Least Square Means

An End-Use Intensity Study of the Residential Sector

Legislation

Making Waves in the Heartland: How Illinois' Experience with Residential Real-Time Pricing Can Be a National Model

Lessons

LED Lighting: Applying Lessons Learned from the CFL Experience

Life-Cycle Costs

CABA's Intelligent Building Programs

Market Transformation and Guiding Principles of Sustainability

The Role of State Programs in Promoting New Energy Efficient Technologies

Lifestyle

A High Energy Diet: The Impact of Lifestyle Changes on Energy Consumption in Food Sales and Food Service

Dollars or Sense: Economic versus Social Rationality in Residential Energy Consumption

The "Average American" Unmasked: Social Structure and Differences in Household Energy Use and Carbon Emissions

Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs)

Energy Savings Estimates of Light Emitting Diodes in Niche Lighting Applications

Halving Residential Lighting Energy Use by 2020: What a Multi-Stakeholder Target and Approach Means for Efficiency Programs

LED Lighting: Applying Lessons Learned from the CFL Experience

Magical Mystery Devices or Not: How Do LED Lamps and Luminaires Really Measure-Up?

The State of Solid State Lighting: What Programs Need to Know

Lighting

A Bright Idea in Commercial Lighting: New Brunswick's Success with an Upstream Incentive Approach

A New "Twist" on a CFL Program: How One Utility Capitalized on a Creative Approach

Behavior and Energy Savings in Business Establishments

CFL Program Strategy Review: No Programmatic "Silver Bullet"

Energy Efficiency Mass Distribution Program Innovations

Energy Efficient Lighting in Historic Buildings

Halving Residential Lighting Energy Use by 2020: What a Multi-Stakeholder Target and Approach Means for Efficiency Programs

LED Lighting: Applying Lessons Learned from the CFL Experience

Lighting the Great Outdoors: LEDs in Exterior Applications

Magical Mystery Devices or Not: How Do LED Lamps and Luminaires Really Measure-Up?

Market Effects: Claim Them Now or Forever Hold Your Peace

Measuring CFL Markets: A Collaborative Regional Study on the Northwest's Largest Efficiency Resource

New California PIER R&D Product Introduction Process

Scalable Commercial Lighting Solutions for the Mainstream Market

Teaching Customers to Value Energy Efficiency: A Comparison of CFL Fund Raisers

The Power of Point-of-Purchase Signage

The State of Solid State Lighting: What Programs Need to Know

The Value of Advanced Technologies in the U.S. Buildings Sector in Climate Change Mitigation

U.S. Residential Miscellaneous Electric Loads Electricity Consumption

Way Beyond Widgets: Delivering Integrated Lighting Design in Actionable Solutions

Who's Buying CFLs? Who's Not Buying Them? Findings from a Large-Scale, Nationwide Survey

Lighting Applications

Energy Savings Estimates of Light Emitting Diodes in Niche Lighting Applications

Lighting Control

The Advantages of Highly Controlled Lighting for Offices and Commercial Buildings

Way Beyond Widgets: Delivering Integrated Lighting Design in Actionable Solutions

Lighting Equipment

Lighting the Great Outdoors: LEDs in Exterior Applications

The Power of Point-of-Purchase Signage

Lighting Incentive Mechanisms

CFL Program Strategy Review: No Programmatic "Silver Bullet"

Lighting Retrofit

Energy Efficient Lighting in Historic Buildings

Linkageless Controls

Common Boiler Excess Air Trends and Strategies to Optimize Efficiency

Load

Residential Baseload Energy Use: Concept and Potential for AMI Customers

What Does It Take to Turn Load Growth Negative? A View from the Leading Edge

Load Calculation

Modeling the Impacts of Performance Components in Super Energy Efficient House Designs in Different Climate Zones

Load Control

Designing a Successful Demand Response Program: It's Not Your Grandfather's Load Control Program

Dynamic Energy Management

New Approaches to Residential Direct Load Control in California

Load Curve

A Method for Deriving an Empirical Hourly Base Load Shape from Utility Hourly Total Load Records

Load Management

Designing a Successful Demand Response Program: It's Not Your Grandfather's Load Control Program

Integration of Retail Demand Response with Midwest ISO Wholesale Markets

Loan Guarantees

Home Performance with ENERGY STAR: Accelerating Energy Efficiency Improvements in Existing Homes

Loans

On-Bill Financing of Small Business Energy Efficiency: An Evolving Success Story

Local

Making Fresh AIRE Out of Thin Air: Launching a Local Climate Action Initiative With Minimal State and Utility Involvement

Local Programs

Building Lasting Partnerships: Program Strategies that Enamor Decision-Makers & Enable Savings in the Commercial Real Estate Office Sector

Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS): The Process of Mainstreaming Efficiency in Action and the Evolution of CHPS

Greening Communities: Integrating Climate Protection Policies into Local Governments' General Plans through Online Collaboration

High Performance Homes in the Southwest: Savings Potential, Cost Effectiveness and Policy Options

Leading by Example: Streamlining EE in the Local Government Sector

Lost Opportunities

Preparing for the Sunset of Incandescent Bulbs

Low Power Mode

Low Power Mode Energy Use in California Homes

Standby Power: Building a Coherent International Policy Framework

Low-Flow Showerheads

A Market-Based Approach to Energy Efficiency in Hospitality

Energy Efficiency Mass Distribution Program Innovations

Energy-Related Water Fixture Measurements: Securing the Baseline for Northwest Single Family Homes

Low-Income

Refrigerator Early Retirement, Replacement and Recycling with Community Partners

Transforming Energy Behaviors of Households: Evidence from Low-Income Energy Education Programs

Luminaires

Avoiding Fluorescent Dimming Pitfalls for Daylight Harvesting

Magical Mystery Devices or Not: How Do LED Lamps and Luminaires Really Measure-Up?

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Modelling the Relationship between Energy Efficiency Attributes and House Price: The Case of Detached Houses Sold in the Australian Capital Territory in 2005 and 2006

Manufacturers

Halving Residential Lighting Energy Use by 2020: What a Multi-Stakeholder Target and Approach Means for Efficiency Programs

What's Cooking? Commercial Building Trends in the Food Services Industry

Market

A Bright Idea in Commercial Lighting: New Brunswick's Success with an Upstream Incentive Approach

Coming Climate Change Policy and the Effect on Energy Efficiency

Review of Recent Midwest DSM Potential Studies

Transforming the Residential Buildings Market through High Performance Homes and a National Home Performance Label: The DOE Builders Challenge

Market Assessment

Laying the Foundation for Energy Efficiency Potential Estimates Through Market Assessment

Market Barriers

A Market-Based Approach to Energy Efficiency in Hospitality

Cooking Up a New Approach for Program Design II: A Recipe for Success

Creating Regulatory Structures for Robust Demand Response Participation in Organized Wholesale Electric Markets

EPA Climate Choice: Promoting Emerging Technologies That Protect the Climate

Lighting the Great Outdoors: LEDs in Exterior Applications

On-Bill Financing of Small Business Energy Efficiency: An Evolving Success Story

Preparing for the Sunset of Incandescent Bulbs

Quantifying the Effect of the Principal-Agent Problem on U.S. Residential Energy Use

Water-Wastewater Program Best Practices: Lessons from the Field

Market Effects

Are We There Yet? An Assessment of a Decade of Lighting Market Transformation Efforts

Energy Efficiency and Changes in Energy Demand Behavior

Market Effects: Claim Them Now or Forever Hold Your Peace

What Does It Take to Turn Load Growth Negative? A View from the Leading Edge

Market Evaluation

Market Penetration of ENERGY STAR Qualified Appliances: An Analysis of Various Predictor Variables

Market Penetration

Accelerating the Adoption of Energy Efficient Business and Consumer Electronics

Energy Efficiency as the First Resource: Opportunities, Challenges, and Beating the Next Bust

EPA Climate Choice: Promoting Emerging Technologies That Protect the Climate

Market Transformation and Guiding Principles of Sustainability

Preparing for the Sunset of Incandescent Bulbs

Market Research

Is Climate Change a Good Thing? Opportunities and Barriers to Using Climate Change to Motivate Efficiency

Measuring CFL Markets: A Collaborative Regional Study on the Northwest's Largest Efficiency Resource

Who's Buying CFLs? Who's Not Buying Them? Findings from a Large-Scale, Nationwide Survey

Market Segmentation

A Market-Based Approach to Energy Efficiency in Hospitality

Cooking Up a New Approach for Program Design II: A Recipe for Success

Saving More with ENERGY STAR

Segmentation in a Mass Media Energy Campaign

The Commercial Building Market Structure: An Act with Five Players

Who's Buying CFLs? Who's Not Buying Them? Findings from a Large-Scale, Nationwide Survey

Market Share Methods

Attribution Methodology Wars: Self-Report Methods versus Statistical Number Crunching — Which Should Win?

Market Strategies

Leading the Way: BPA's Efforts to Accelerate Energy Efficiency in the Northwest

Market Transformation

Are We There Yet? An Assessment of a Decade of Lighting Market Transformation Efforts

Breaking Down Silos: Bridging the Communications and Knowledge Gap between Departments to Implement Energy Efficiency in the Public Sector

Case Study: The Effectiveness of Zero Energy Home Strategies in the Marketplace

Changing Behaviors: Market Transformation Web Sites as Online Narrative

ENERGY STAR Quantity Quotes: A New Tool for Reaching Large Purchasers of Energy-Efficient Products

Estimating Energy Savings for a Commercial Market Transformation Initiative

Extreme Efficiency: How Far Can We Go If We Really Need To?

From Single Commercial Buildings to Portfolios: Streamlining LEED® Documentation for Volume Customers

Impacts of Advertising on Market Transformation: A Case Study of PG&E's 2007 CFL Marketing Campaign

It's the Size of the Reduction Target, Stupid! The Need for a Wholesale Re-Think of Energy Efficiency Policy in UK Housing

Market Effects: Claim Them Now or Forever Hold Your Peace

Market Transformation and Guiding Principles of Sustainability

Moving to New Regulatory Frameworks that Leverage Market Forces to Maximize Societal Uptake of Energy Efficiency

Residential Building Code Change: Market Transformation Success, Back to the Beginning for ENERGY STAR Homes Program Implementation

Scalable Commercial Lighting Solutions for the Mainstream Market

Solar Water Heating: Ready for Prime Time?

The Road to Carbon Neutral: ENERGY STAR for Homes and Beyond

Transforming Ourselves While Transforming the Market: Turning Technical Expertise into the Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings

Marketing

A Market Transformation Strategy for Gas-Fired Domestic Hot Water Heaters

A New "Twist" on a CFL Program: How One Utility Capitalized on a Creative Approach

ENERGY STAR Quantity Quotes: A New Tool for Reaching Large Purchasers of Energy-Efficient Products

From Resource Acquisition to Relationships: How Energy Efficiency Initiatives Can Work Effectively with Large Commercial & Industrial Customers

Impacts of Advertising on Market Transformation: A Case Study of PG&E's 2007 CFL Marketing Campaign

Saving More with ENERGY STAR

Selling Efficiency amid the Green Revolution: Innovative Marketing Approaches at Three Statewide Efficiency Programs

Targeted Marketing Strategies that Increase Energy Efficiency Program Participation of Commercial Companies

The Power of Point-of-Purchase Signage

Welcome to your Home Energy Makeover

Marketing Strategies

A Market Transformation Strategy for Gas-Fired Domestic Hot Water Heaters

A Market-Based Approach to Energy Efficiency in Hospitality

Cooking Up a New Approach for Program Design II: A Recipe for Success

From Resource Acquisition to Relationships: How Energy Efficiency Initiatives Can Work Effectively with Large Commercial & Industrial Customers

The Commercial Building Market Structure: An Act with Five Players

The Power of Point-of-Purchase Signage

Welcome to your Home Energy Makeover

Who's Buying CFLs? Who's Not Buying Them? Findings from a Large-Scale, Nationwide Survey

Mass Media

Segmentation in a Mass Media Energy Campaign

Welcome to your Home Energy Makeover

Measure Life

Welcome to the Dark Side: The Effect of Switching on CFL Measure Life

Measured Performance

Getting to Fifty: Moving Toward Low-Energy Commercial Buildings

Green Building Performance Evaluation: Measured Results from LEED New Construction Buildings

Measurement

Energy Efficiency, Emissions, and Policy: Strengthening the Links

Low Power Mode Energy Use in California Homes

Magical Mystery Devices or Not: How Do LED Lamps and Luminaires Really Measure-Up?

Measured Effect of Air Flow and Refrigerant Charge on a High-Performance Heat Pump

The Development of an Evaluation, Measurement and Verification Forum for the Northeast Region

Measurement and Verification (M&V)

Is Energy Efficiency Enough? An Exploration of California's Per Capita Electricity Consumption Trends

Moving to New Regulatory Frameworks that Leverage Market Forces to Maximize Societal Uptake of Energy Efficiency

Playing with the Big Boys: Energy Efficiency as a Resource in the ISO New England Forward Capacity Market

Retrocommissioning: A Persistence Study

Summing It Up: The National Action Plan's New Program Impact Evaluation Guide

Measurement Protocols

Field Monitoring of High Efficiency Residential Heat Pumps

Media Filtration

Indoor Air Purification Technologies that Allow Reduced Outdoor Air Intake Rates While Maintaining Acceptable Levels of Indoor Air Quality

MEPS

How the Enforcement of MEPS in Australia Has Led to a Paradigm Shift in Supplier Attitudes

Metered Data

How Accurate Is Energy Modeling in the Market?

Metering

Why, What, When, How, Where, and Who? Developing UK Policy on Metering, Billing and Energy Display Devices

Midwest

Review of Recent Midwest DSM Potential Studies

Minimum Efficiency Standards

International Comparison of Energy Efficiency Standard and Labels: Development Process and Implementation Phase

It's the Size of the Reduction Target, Stupid! The Need for a Wholesale Re-Think of Energy Efficiency Policy in UK Housing

Preparing for the Sunset of Incandescent Bulbs

Standby Power: Building a Coherent International Policy Framework

The New Landscape for Appliance Efficiency Standards

The Role of State Programs in Promoting New Energy Efficient Technologies

Miscellaneous

Low Power Mode Energy Use in California Homes

Miscellaneous Equipment

Consumer Electronics Efficiency Programs: The Next Big Challenge

EPA ENERGY STAR: Tackling Growth in Home Electronics and Small Appliances

The Value of Advanced Technologies in the U.S. Buildings Sector in Climate Change Mitigation

U.S. Residential Miscellaneous Electric Loads Electricity Consumption

Modeling

A Comparison of Per-Capita Electricity Consumption in the United States and California

Benchmarking and Equipment and Controls Assessment for a 'Big Box' Retail Chain

DOE Commercial Building Benchmark Models

Energy Design Guides for Army Barracks

Extreme Efficiency: How Far Can We Go If We Really Need To?

Furnace Blower Electricity: National and Regional Savings Potential

Lessons Learned in Selecting Impact Evaluation Methodologies: Metering, Modeling, or Billing Analysis?

Modeling Approaches to Building Energy Efficiency

Modeling the Impacts of Performance Components in Super Energy Efficient House Designs in Different Climate Zones

Models

Taking the Efficiency Utility Model to the Next Level

Moisture

Field Monitoring of Wall Vapor Control Strategies in the Pacific Northwest

Manufactured Panelized Roof System for Residential Buildings

Monitoring

Deep Energy Savings in a Small Office Building: The Southface Eco-Office Demonstration and Research Project

Development of an Integrated Residential Humid Climate HVAC System

Refrigerator Early Retirement, Replacement and Recycling with Community Partners

Residential Baseload Energy Use: Concept and Potential for AMI Customers

The Power of Point-of-Purchase Signage

Transforming the Practices of Building Operation and Maintenance Professionals: A Washington State Pilot Program

Monitoring and Verification

Integration of Retail Demand Response with Midwest ISO Wholesale Markets

Monte Carlo

Assessing the Impact of Behavioral Energy Efficiency Measures: A Simulation Approach

Motor

Furnace Blower Electricity: National and Regional Savings Potential

Multi-Split Heat Pumps

Variable Refrigerant Flow: An Emerging Air Conditioner and Heat Pump Technology

Multifamily Buildings

Building and Remodeling a New Construction Program

Cook County Energy Savers: How Energy Efficiency in Chicago's Multi-Family Buildings Has Evolved to Meet New Challenges from the 1980's to the Present Day

Integration of Energy Management, Electrical Submetering and Time Sensitive Pricing in a Large Residential Community Utilizing Wireless Communications

Multifamily New Construction: Utility Program Leads the Way Toward Changing Building Practice and Energy Codes

Promoting Combined Heat and Power (CHP) for Multifamily Properties

The Challenge of Vapor-Diaphragm Thermostat Retrofits in Existing Multifamily Buildings

Municipal

Addressing Climate Change Concerns at the Municipal Level: A Case Study of the City of Sunnyvale, California

Water-Wastewater Program Best Practices: Lessons from the Field

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Summing It Up: The National Action Plan's New Program Impact Evaluation Guide

National Chains

What's Cooking? Commercial Building Trends in the Food Services Industry

National Energy Modeling System

A Buildings Module for the Stochastic Energy Deployment System

Natural Gas

A Market Transformation Strategy for Gas-Fired Domestic Hot Water Heaters

Energy Efficiency Portfolio of the Future

International Comparison of Household Energy Consumption and its Indicator

Natural Gas Utilities

Energy Efficiency Portfolio of the Future

NBECS

DOE's Commercial Building Benchmarks — Development of Typical Construction Practices for Building Envelope and Mechanical Systems from the 2003 Commercial Building Energy Consumption Survey

NEEA

Building Lasting Partnerships: Program Strategies that Enamor Decision-Makers & Enable Savings in the Commercial Real Estate Office Sector

Needs Assessment

Risky Business: Development and Implementation of a Risk Assessment Strategy to Guide Program Evaluation

Negative Load

What Does It Take to Turn Load Growth Negative? A View from the Leading Edge

Neighborhood

Cook County Energy Savers: How Energy Efficiency in Chicago's Multi-Family Buildings Has Evolved to Meet New Challenges from the 1980's to the Present Day

Net Savings

Debating Net Versus Gross Impacts in the Northeast: Policy and Program Perspectives

Market Effects: Claim Them Now or Forever Hold Your Peace

Net Zero Energy

Getting to Fifty: Moving Toward Low-Energy Commercial Buildings

The Divergence Problem — Meeting "AIA 2030 Challenge" Standards with Existing Buildings: A New York City Tenant Case Study

Networks

Bringing the Vision to Life: Will Advances in Energy Communication Create a Significant Resource Strategy?

Dollars or Sense: Economic versus Social Rationality in Residential Energy Consumption

Nevada

Scoring Our Schools: Program Implementation Lessons-Learned from Benchmarking Over 1, 775 Schools for Seven Utilities

New Buildings

Adapting to Serve the Commercial New Construction Market in Oregon

Case Study: The Effectiveness of Zero Energy Home Strategies in the Marketplace

Deep Energy Savings in a Small Office Building: The Southface Eco-Office Demonstration and Research Project

From Single Commercial Buildings to Portfolios: Streamlining LEED® Documentation for Volume Customers

Sustainable Communities Program: Increasing Savings by Targeting Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Design

New Construction

21st Century Cooling Strategies for Large Retail Facilities in Dry Climates

Building and Remodeling a New Construction Program

DOE's Commercial Building Benchmarks — Development of Typical Construction Practices for Building Envelope and Mechanical Systems from the 2003 Commercial Building Energy Consumption Survey

Maine New Homes: How a Baseline Study Can Set You Straight

Quantifying the "Real World" Impacts of Early Design Involvement and the Implications for New Construction Program Design, Implementation and Evaluation

Residential Building Code Change: Market Transformation Success, Back to the Beginning for ENERGY STAR Homes Program Implementation

Tackling Efficiency Paradoxes: Responses to "Energy-Efficient" 10,000 sq. ft. Houses and 50-inch Televisions

The Road to Carbon Neutral: ENERGY STAR for Homes and Beyond

New Construction Practices

Multifamily New Construction: Utility Program Leads the Way Toward Changing Building Practice and Energy Codes

New Construction Programs

How Much More Does It Cost to Build an ENERGY STAR® Home? Incremental Cost Estimation Process

Streamlining the Small New Construction Market: A Prescriptive Approach to Comprehensive Savings with Core Performance

New England

Two Contrasting Markets & Approaches: Promoting Efficiency in the Province of New Brunswick and New England

New Homes

High Performance Homes in the Southwest: Savings Potential, Cost Effectiveness and Policy Options

How Much More Does It Cost to Build an ENERGY STAR® Home? Incremental Cost Estimation Process

Maine New Homes: How a Baseline Study Can Set You Straight

The Road to Carbon Neutral: ENERGY STAR for Homes and Beyond

New Program

Building and Remodeling a New Construction Program

Next Generation

Lighting the Great Outdoors: LEDs in Exterior Applications

Making Aggressive Levels of Efficiency "Business as Usual" — California's Strategic Plan for the Next Generation of Energy Efficiency

National Cooling Initiative: What Are We Waiting For?

Next Generation Roofs and Attics for Homes

The Road to Carbon Neutral: ENERGY STAR for Homes and Beyond

Nitrogen Oxides

Energy Efficiency, Emissions, and Policy: Strengthening the Links

Nonresidential

Quantifying the "Real World" Impacts of Early Design Involvement and the Implications for New Construction Program Design, Implementation and Evaluation

Norms

Dollars or Sense: Economic versus Social Rationality in Residential Energy Consumption

Northeast

The Development of an Evaluation, Measurement and Verification Forum for the Northeast Region

Northwest

Are We There Yet? An Assessment of a Decade of Lighting Market Transformation Efforts

NRCan

Canadian Standby Power Study of Consumer Electronics and Appliances

NYSERDA

Building Lasting Partnerships: Program Strategies that Enamor Decision-Makers & Enable Savings in the Commercial Real Estate Office Sector

Integration of Energy Management, Electrical Submetering and Time Sensitive Pricing in a Large Residential Community Utilizing Wireless Communications

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Common Boiler Excess Air Trends and Strategies to Optimize Efficiency

Observed Life

Welcome to the Dark Side: The Effect of Switching on CFL Measure Life

Occupancy Sensors

The Advantages of Highly Controlled Lighting for Offices and Commercial Buildings

Occupant Behavior

A Tale of Two Houses: The Human Dimension of Demand Response Enabling Technology from a Case Study of an Adaptive Wireless Thermostat

Deep Energy Reductions in Existing Homes: Strategies for Implementation

Engaging Occupants in Green Building Performance: Addressing the Knowledge Gap

Lessons Learned in Selecting Impact Evaluation Methodologies: Metering, Modeling, or Billing Analysis?

Quantifying the Effect of the Principal-Agent Problem on U.S. Residential Energy Use

Occupant Control

A Tale of Two Houses: The Human Dimension of Demand Response Enabling Technology from a Case Study of an Adaptive Wireless Thermostat

Office

Building Lasting Partnerships: Program Strategies that Enamor Decision-Makers & Enable Savings in the Commercial Real Estate Office Sector

Greening Leased Spaces: Opportunities and Challenges

Office Buildings

Design and Optimization of a Mixed Mode Raised Floor and Natural Ventilation System for a High Rise Office Building

Greening the U.S. House of Representatives

Implications of Ownership in the U.S. and U.K.: An Exploration of ENERGY STAR® Buildings & the Energy Efficiency Accreditation Scheme

Office Equipment

Standby Power: Building a Coherent International Policy Framework

U.S. Residential Miscellaneous Electric Loads Electricity Consumption

Offsets

Coming Climate Change Policy and the Effect on Energy Efficiency

Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due: Energy Efficiency in CO2 Emissions Trading

Operating Profiles

Better than the Sum of their Parts: Taking Advantage of the Water-Energy Nexus to Create Dual-Funded Partnership Programs

Operation

Life-Cycle Environmental Impacts of the Canadian Residential Sector

Operation and Maintenance (O&M)

The Role of State Programs in Promoting New Energy Efficient Technologies

Transforming the Practices of Building Operation and Maintenance Professionals: A Washington State Pilot Program

Optimization

Demand Response-Enabled Residential Thermostat Controls

Organizational Culture

Breaking Down Silos: Bridging the Communications and Knowledge Gap between Departments to Implement Energy Efficiency in the Public Sector

Implications of Ownership in the U.S. and U.K.: An Exploration of ENERGY STAR® Buildings & the Energy Efficiency Accreditation Scheme

The Role of State Programs in Promoting New Energy Efficient Technologies

Organizational Development

A Blueprint for Re-Building a World Class Conservation Power Plant: Releasing the Hidden Dragon

Outdoor Air Flow Rates

Systems Research on Residential Ventilation

Outreach

Transforming the Practices of Building Operation and Maintenance Professionals: A Washington State Pilot Program

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Field Testing of Commercial Rooftop Units Directed at Performance Verification

Particulate Matter

Energy Implications of Economizer Use in California Data Centers

Partnerships

Best Practices in Community Energy-Efficiency and Renewable Energy Partnership Programs

Better than the Sum of their Parts: Taking Advantage of the Water-Energy Nexus to Create Dual-Funded Partnership Programs

The Development of an Evaluation, Measurement and Verification Forum for the Northeast Region

Path

Least Cost Path to Achieving 50% Reduction in Residential Energy Use (in Heating Climates)

Pay-for-Performance

80 PLUS: Market Impacts and Lessons Learned

PAYS

Breaking Down the Barriers to Efficiency Improvements in the Rental Housing Market: One Utility's Approach

Peak Demand

A Tale of Two Houses: The Human Dimension of Demand Response Enabling Technology from a Case Study of an Adaptive Wireless Thermostat

Designing a Successful Demand Response Program: It's Not Your Grandfather's Load Control Program

Distributed Energy Resources On-Site Optimization for Commercial Buildings with Electric and Thermal Storage Technologies

Effects of Air Conditioner Sizing on Energy Consumption and Peak Demand in a Hot-Dry Climate

Integration of Retail Demand Response with Midwest ISO Wholesale Markets

Making Waves in the Heartland: How Illinois' Experience with Residential Real-Time Pricing Can Be a National Model

Peak Demand and Energy Savings from Properly Sized and Matched Air Conditioners

Playing with the Big Boys: Energy Efficiency as a Resource in the ISO New England Forward Capacity Market

TOU Rates As If Prices Mattered: Reviving an Industry Standard for Today's Utility Environment

Walking the Walk: Considering Non-Transmission Alternatives in Utility Planning, Part Deux

Peak Load

High Performance Homes in the Southwest: Savings Potential, Cost Effectiveness and Policy Options

Zero Energy Peak from Zero Energy Homes

Peak Shifting

Communicating Thermostats for Residential Time-of-Use Rates: They Do Make a Difference

Experimental Evidence: A Residential Time of Use Pilot

Segmentation in a Mass Media Energy Campaign

TOU Rates As If Prices Mattered: Reviving an Industry Standard for Today's Utility Environment

PEERS

Field Tests of Specially Selected Air Conditioners for Hot Dry Climates

Per Capita Consumption

Is Energy Efficiency Enough? An Exploration of California's Per Capita Electricity Consumption Trends

Performance

A Bright Idea in Commercial Lighting: New Brunswick's Success with an Upstream Incentive Approach

Home Performance with ENERGY STAR: Accelerating Energy Efficiency Improvements in Existing Homes

Industry-Led Market Transformation

Taking the Efficiency Utility Model to the Next Level

The International State of Building System Commissioning

Transforming the Residential Buildings Market through High Performance Homes and a National Home Performance Label: The DOE Builders Challenge

Performance Incentives

What Does It Take to Turn Load Growth Negative? A View from the Leading Edge

Performance Lighting

Two Contrasting Markets & Approaches: Promoting Efficiency in the Province of New Brunswick and New England

Performance Rating and Certification

From Single Commercial Buildings to Portfolios: Streamlining LEED® Documentation for Volume Customers

Universal Energy Benchmarking for Commercial Buildings: Making It a Reality in California

Performance-Based

Greater Impacts at Reasonable Costs: Setting and Meeting Energy Efficiency Resource Standards with Best Practices

How the "Dirty Dozen" ECMs Created a Need for a Risk Assessment Tool

Persistence

Retrocommissioning: A Persistence Study

Persistence of Savings

Targeting Energy Efficiency in Commercial Buildings Using Advanced Billing Analysis

Petroleum

Appliance Energy Use in America's Second Home: The Automobile

Photocatalytic Oxidation

Indoor Air Purification Technologies that Allow Reduced Outdoor Air Intake Rates While Maintaining Acceptable Levels of Indoor Air Quality

Photometry

Magical Mystery Devices or Not: How Do LED Lamps and Luminaires Really Measure-Up?

Photosensor

Avoiding Fluorescent Dimming Pitfalls for Daylight Harvesting

Photovoltaic Cells

Case Study: The Effectiveness of Zero Energy Home Strategies in the Marketplace

Deep Energy Savings in a Small Office Building: The Southface Eco-Office Demonstration and Research Project

High Performance Homes in the Southwest: Savings Potential, Cost Effectiveness and Policy Options

Pilot

Improving Electricity Services and Reducing Energy Losses for the Urban Poor

Plan

Risky Business: Development and Implementation of a Risk Assessment Strategy to Guide Program Evaluation

Planned Communities

Sustainable Communities Program: Increasing Savings by Targeting Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Design

Planning

A Blueprint for Re-Building a World Class Conservation Power Plant: Releasing the Hidden Dragon

Beyond Supply Curves

Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS): The Process of Mainstreaming Efficiency in Action and the Evolution of CHPS

Risky Business: Development and Implementation of a Risk Assessment Strategy to Guide Program Evaluation

Taking It to the Streets: Innovative Public Engagement Process on Vermont's Electricity Future

Policy

Closing the Gap on Building Energy Codes to Achieve Carbon Reductions

Coming Climate Change Policy and the Effect on Energy Efficiency

Modeling Approaches to Building Energy Efficiency

Why, What, When, How, Where, and Who? Developing UK Policy on Metering, Billing and Energy Display Devices

Policy Options

Energy Efficiency Mass Distribution Program Innovations

Extreme Energy Efficiency on the Path to Climate Stability: A Tale of Two Municipalities

Greening Communities: Integrating Climate Protection Policies into Local Governments' General Plans through Online Collaboration

High Performance Homes in the Southwest: Savings Potential, Cost Effectiveness and Policy Options

Mandates for Maximizing Cost-Effective Measures in Building Energy Codes: The Promise and Pitfalls during Times of Rapid Evolution

Standby Power: Building a Coherent International Policy Framework

State-Level Energy Efficiency Analysis: Goals, Methods and Lessons Learned

The New Landscape for Appliance Efficiency Standards

Policymaking

International Comparison of Energy Efficiency Standard and Labels: Development Process and Implementation Phase

State-Level Energy Efficiency Analysis: Goals, Methods and Lessons Learned

What Does It Take to Turn Load Growth Negative? A View from the Leading Edge

Polling

Taking It to the Streets: Innovative Public Engagement Process on Vermont's Electricity Future

Pollution Control

Efficiency in a Climate-Constrained World: Are We Aiming High Enough?

Poor Urban Areas

Improving Electricity Services and Reducing Energy Losses for the Urban Poor

Potential

Estimating National Carbon Savings Potential from Electricity Demand Reduction in Buildings

Laying the Foundation for Energy Efficiency Potential Estimates Through Market Assessment

Review of Recent Midwest DSM Potential Studies

Potential Market

Welcome to your Home Energy Makeover

Potential Study

Assessment of Achievable Potential for Energy Efficiency and Demand Response in the U.S. (2010—2030)

Power

Canadian Standby Power Study of Consumer Electronics and Appliances

Power Management

Networks in Buildings: Which Path Forward?

Preference

Dollars or Sense: Economic versus Social Rationality in Residential Energy Consumption

Pressure

Wireless Sensor Technology for Data Centers

Pricing

Bringing the Vision to Life: Will Advances in Energy Communication Create a Significant Resource Strategy?

TOU Rates As If Prices Mattered: Reviving an Industry Standard for Today's Utility Environment

Prioritization

Risky Business: Development and Implementation of a Risk Assessment Strategy to Guide Program Evaluation

Process Evaluation

Market Transformation and Guiding Principles of Sustainability

On-Bill Financing of Small Business Energy Efficiency: An Evolving Success Story

Reaching Business and Industry: Lessons from 30 Years of Process Evaluation

The Evolution of a Successful Efficiency Program: Energy Savings Bid

What's Cooking? Commercial Building Trends in the Food Services Industry

Process Optimization

Water-Wastewater Program Best Practices: Lessons from the Field

Procurement Policy

The Role of State Programs in Promoting New Energy Efficient Technologies

Program

Achieving Real Energy Savings through Consumer Electronics Programs

On a Crash Course? How Two Programs Avoid a Market Collision and Work Together

Quantifying the "Real World" Impacts of Early Design Involvement and the Implications for New Construction Program Design, Implementation and Evaluation

The State of Solid State Lighting: What Programs Need to Know

Program Best Practices

What's Working Well: Lessons from a National Review of Exemplary Energy Efficiency Programs

Program Design

A New "Twist" on a CFL Program: How One Utility Capitalized on a Creative Approach

CFL Program Strategy Review: No Programmatic "Silver Bullet"

Collaborative Two-Part AMI Programs for Demand Response and Energy Efficiency

Designing a Successful Demand Response Program: It's Not Your Grandfather's Load Control Program

DSM Implementation Contracts and Stakeholder Advisory Groups: Considerations for DSM Program Managers

From Resource Acquisition to Relationships: How Energy Efficiency Initiatives Can Work Effectively with Large Commercial & Industrial Customers

Leading by Example: Streamlining EE in the Local Government Sector

NYSERDA's Multifamily Performance Program: Rounding the First Turn

On-Bill Financing of Small Business Energy Efficiency: An Evolving Success Story

Solar Water Heating: Ready for Prime Time?

Sustainable Communities Program: Increasing Savings by Targeting Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Design

The Evolution of a Successful Efficiency Program: Energy Savings Bid

The Road to Carbon Neutral: ENERGY STAR for Homes and Beyond

Upstream with Residential HVAC Programming in the Northeast

Water-Wastewater Program Best Practices: Lessons from the Field

Program Evaluation

Summing It Up: The National Action Plan's New Program Impact Evaluation Guide

Program Implementation

NYSERDA's Multifamily Performance Program: Rounding the First Turn

Program Results

Making the Leap: Data and Lessons Learned from Scaling Up Retrocommissioning Programs

Program Strategies

Accelerating the Adoption of Energy Efficient Business and Consumer Electronics

Properly Matched Evaporators/Condensers

Peak Demand and Energy Savings from Properly Sized and Matched Air Conditioners

Properly Sized Air Conditioners

Peak Demand and Energy Savings from Properly Sized and Matched Air Conditioners

Property Agents

Property Agents in the UK: Some Reflections on the Social Production of Desirable Space

Property Markets

Property Agents in the UK: Some Reflections on the Social Production of Desirable Space

PSC

Collaborating for Success: How Arkansas Got It Right

Psychographic

Segmenting Residential Customers: Energy and Conservation Behaviors

Psychological Aspects

The Power of Point-of-Purchase Signage

Psychological Theory

Free-Ridership Measurement Is Out of Sync with Program Logic… or, We've Got the Structure Built, but What's its Foundation?

Public

Taking It to the Streets: Innovative Public Engagement Process on Vermont's Electricity Future

Public Benefits Programs

What's Working Well: Lessons from a National Review of Exemplary Energy Efficiency Programs

Public Buildings

Minnesota B3 Benchmarking Results: Prioritizing the Energy Savings Opportunity in Minnesota Public Buildings

Public Education

Is Climate Change a Good Thing? Opportunities and Barriers to Using Climate Change to Motivate Efficiency

Public Energy Policy

A Comparison of Per-Capita Electricity Consumption in the United States and California

Creating Regulatory Structures for Robust Demand Response Participation in Organized Wholesale Electric Markets

Debating Net Versus Gross Impacts in the Northeast: Policy and Program Perspectives

Energy Efficiency as the First Resource: Opportunities, Challenges, and Beating the Next Bust

Extreme Energy Efficiency on the Path to Climate Stability: A Tale of Two Municipalities

National Cooling Initiative: What Are We Waiting For?

Not Just Energy Savings: Emerging Regulatory Challenges from the Implementation of Tradable White Certificates

Shifting the Paradigm to Achieve Big, Bold Energy-Efficiency Initiatives in California

Public Funding

Energy Efficiency and Climate Change Mitigation Policy

Not Just Energy Savings: Emerging Regulatory Challenges from the Implementation of Tradable White Certificates

Public Housing

Promoting Combined Heat and Power (CHP) for Multifamily Properties

Public Opinion

CFLs, Mercury and Mayhem! The Energy Efficiency Community Responds

Public Policies

DOE's Commercial Buildings Program: A Market-Based Approach to Zero Energy Performance

Energy Efficiency as the First Resource: Opportunities, Challenges, and Beating the Next Bust

Energy Efficiency's Impact on California's Renewable Energy Development

Maine's Model CFL Recycling Program

Public Service Commission

Integration of Energy Management, Electrical Submetering and Time Sensitive Pricing in a Large Residential Community Utilizing Wireless Communications

Public Utility Commission

Government Partnership: Measuring Indirect Impacts on the Community

Public-Sector Buildings

Energy Efficient Lighting in Historic Buildings

Public/Private Partnerships

Leading by Example: Streamlining EE in the Local Government Sector

Purchases

Market Transformation and Guiding Principles of Sustainability

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An Inconvenient Truth: The Reality of "Shoddy" CFLs in Developing Asia, and a Plan for Eliminating Them

Quality Installation

Peak Demand and Energy Savings from Properly Sized and Matched Air Conditioners

Quantification

Quantifying the Third Leg: The Potential for Smart Growth to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Radiant Barriers

Next Generation Roofs and Attics for Homes

Rate Analysis

TOU Rates As If Prices Mattered: Reviving an Industry Standard for Today's Utility Environment

Rate Impacts

Creating Regulatory Structures for Robust Demand Response Participation in Organized Wholesale Electric Markets

Experimental Evidence: A Residential Time of Use Pilot

Rate Structure

A Plea for Simpler Electricity Tariffs

Rates

A Plea for Simpler Electricity Tariffs

Communicating Thermostats for Residential Time-of-Use Rates: They Do Make a Difference

TOU Rates As If Prices Mattered: Reviving an Industry Standard for Today's Utility Environment

Ratings

CABA's Intelligent Building Programs

RCM

Implementing a Resource Conservation Manager Program at Puget Sound Energy

RCx

Retrocommissioning: A Persistence Study

Re-Circulation

Case Studies in Restaurant Water Heating

Re-Tuning

Transforming the Practices of Building Operation and Maintenance Professionals: A Washington State Pilot Program

Real-Time Pricing

Collaborative Two-Part AMI Programs for Demand Response and Energy Efficiency

Making Waves in the Heartland: How Illinois' Experience with Residential Real-Time Pricing Can Be a National Model

TOU Rates As If Prices Mattered: Reviving an Industry Standard for Today's Utility Environment

Rebates

80 PLUS: Market Impacts and Lessons Learned

Preparing for the Sunset of Incandescent Bulbs

Recycling

CFLs, Mercury and Mayhem! The Energy Efficiency Community Responds

Maine's Model CFL Recycling Program

Preparing for the Sunset of Incandescent Bulbs

Refrigerant Charge Diagnostics

Virtual Refrigerant Charge Sensor

Refrigerators

Cooking Up a New Approach for Program Design II: A Recipe for Success

Quantifying the Effect of the Principal-Agent Problem on U.S. Residential Energy Use

Refrigerator Early Retirement, Replacement and Recycling with Community Partners

The Boom of Electricity Demand in the Residential Sector in the Developing World and the Potential for Energy Efficiency

Regional

Leading the Way: BPA's Efforts to Accelerate Energy Efficiency in the Northwest

Regional Analysis

Debating Net Versus Gross Impacts in the Northeast: Policy and Program Perspectives

Measuring CFL Markets: A Collaborative Regional Study on the Northwest's Largest Efficiency Resource

State-Level Energy Efficiency Analysis: Goals, Methods and Lessons Learned

Regional Cooperation

An Inconvenient Truth: The Reality of "Shoddy" CFLs in Developing Asia, and a Plan for Eliminating Them

Regional Planning

Green Location: The Critical Role of Land Use in Climate Change and Energy Consumption

Regression

Assessing the Impact of Behavioral Energy Efficiency Measures: A Simulation Approach

Experimental Evidence: A Residential Time of Use Pilot

Regulation

It's the Size of the Reduction Target, Stupid! The Need for a Wholesale Re-Think of Energy Efficiency Policy in UK Housing

Not Just Energy Savings: Emerging Regulatory Challenges from the Implementation of Tradable White Certificates

Strategies and Policies for Improving Energy Efficiency Programs: Closing the Loop Between Evaluation and Implementation

The Sustainability and Costs of Increasing Efficiency Impacts: Evidence from Experience to Date

REITs

The Commercial Building Market Structure: An Act with Five Players

Reliability

Creating Regulatory Structures for Robust Demand Response Participation in Organized Wholesale Electric Markets

Designing a Successful Demand Response Program: It's Not Your Grandfather's Load Control Program

REM

Least Cost Path to Achieving 50% Reduction in Residential Energy Use (in Heating Climates)

Renewable Energy

Addressing Climate Change Concerns at the Municipal Level: A Case Study of the City of Sunnyvale, California

Boulder's Carbon Tax: Building a Foundation for Community Climate Action

Building a Green Capital City: The Natural Step to Madison's Sustainable Design and Energy Future

Energy Efficiency's Impact on California's Renewable Energy Development

Walking the Walk: Considering Non-Transmission Alternatives in Utility Planning, Part Deux

Renovation

Deep Energy Reductions in Existing Homes: Strategies for Implementation

Rental Housing

Quantifying the Effect of the Principal-Agent Problem on U.S. Residential Energy Use

Research

A Bright Idea in Commercial Lighting: New Brunswick's Success with an Upstream Incentive Approach

Residential Baseload Energy Use: Concept and Potential for AMI Customers

Research and Development

Moving Ducts Inside: Big Builders, Scientists Find Common Ground

National Cooling Initiative: What Are We Waiting For?

New California PIER R&D Product Introduction Process

Residential

A Market Transformation Strategy for Gas-Fired Domestic Hot Water Heaters

A New "Twist" on a CFL Program: How One Utility Capitalized on a Creative Approach

A Tale of Two Houses: The Human Dimension of Demand Response Enabling Technology from a Case Study of an Adaptive Wireless Thermostat

Behaviour and Energy Savings in Residential Dwellings

Best Practices and Lessons Learned from EPA/DOE's Home Performance with ENERGY STAR Program

Closing the Gap on Building Energy Codes to Achieve Carbon Reductions

Communicating Thermostats for Residential Time-of-Use Rates: They Do Make a Difference

Deep Energy Reductions in Existing Homes: Strategies for Implementation

Effects of Air Conditioner Sizing on Energy Consumption and Peak Demand in a Hot-Dry Climate

Estimating National Carbon Savings Potential from Electricity Demand Reduction in Buildings

Experimental Evidence: A Residential Time of Use Pilot

Halving Residential Lighting Energy Use by 2020: What a Multi-Stakeholder Target and Approach Means for Efficiency Programs

High Performance Homes in the Southwest: Savings Potential, Cost Effectiveness and Policy Options

Home Performance with ENERGY STAR: Accelerating Energy Efficiency Improvements in Existing Homes

International Comparison of Household Energy Consumption and its Indicator

Least Cost Path to Achieving 50% Reduction in Residential Energy Use (in Heating Climates)

Life-Cycle Environmental Impacts of the Canadian Residential Sector

Maine New Homes: How a Baseline Study Can Set You Straight

Making Fresh AIRE Out of Thin Air: Launching a Local Climate Action Initiative With Minimal State and Utility Involvement

Measured Effect of Air Flow and Refrigerant Charge on a High-Performance Heat Pump

Measuring CFL Markets: A Collaborative Regional Study on the Northwest's Largest Efficiency Resource

New Approaches to Residential Direct Load Control in California

Next Generation Roofs and Attics for Homes

Residential Baseload Energy Use: Concept and Potential for AMI Customers

Saving More with ENERGY STAR

Segmenting Residential Customers: Energy and Conservation Behaviors

Teaching Customers to Value Energy Efficiency: A Comparison of CFL Fund Raisers

The Boom of Electricity Demand in the Residential Sector in the Developing World and the Potential for Energy Efficiency

TOU Rates As If Prices Mattered: Reviving an Industry Standard for Today's Utility Environment

Transforming Energy Behaviors of Households: Evidence from Low-Income Energy Education Programs

Transforming the Residential Buildings Market through High Performance Homes and a National Home Performance Label: The DOE Builders Challenge

U.S. Residential Miscellaneous Electric Loads Electricity Consumption

Welcome to the Dark Side: The Effect of Switching on CFL Measure Life

Why, What, When, How, Where, and Who? Developing UK Policy on Metering, Billing and Energy Display Devices

Zero Energy Peak from Zero Energy Homes

Residential Building Codes

Too Much Stick? Not Enough Carrot? Testing the Presumption of Non-Compliance

Residential Buildings

Case Study: The Effectiveness of Zero Energy Home Strategies in the Marketplace

Demand Response-Enabled Residential Thermostat Controls

Extreme Energy Efficiency on the Path to Climate Stability: A Tale of Two Municipalities

How Much More Does It Cost to Build an ENERGY STAR® Home? Incremental Cost Estimation Process

It's the Size of the Reduction Target, Stupid! The Need for a Wholesale Re-Think of Energy Efficiency Policy in UK Housing

Moving Ducts Inside: Big Builders, Scientists Find Common Ground

Networks in Buildings: Which Path Forward?

Solar Water Heating: Ready for Prime Time?

Systems Research on Residential Ventilation

Upstream with Residential HVAC Programming in the Northeast

Residential Codes and Standards

Field Monitoring of Wall Vapor Control Strategies in the Pacific Northwest

It's the Size of the Reduction Target, Stupid! The Need for a Wholesale Re-Think of Energy Efficiency Policy in UK Housing

Japan's Residential Energy Demand Outlook to 2030 Considering Energy Efficiency Standards "Top-Runner Approach"

Mandates for Maximizing Cost-Effective Measures in Building Energy Codes: The Promise and Pitfalls during Times of Rapid Evolution

Quantifying the Effect of the Principal-Agent Problem on U.S. Residential Energy Use

The New Landscape for Appliance Efficiency Standards

Residential Dwellings

The Operation Result of the Demonstration of Energy Networks of Electricity, Heat, and Hydrogen at an Apartment Building in 2007

Residential Energy Efficiency

Home Performance with Energy Star: Utility Bill Analysis on Homes Participating in Austin Energy's Program

Residential Energy Use

The "Average American" Unmasked: Social Structure and Differences in Household Energy Use and Carbon Emissions

Residential Programs

A Market Transformation Strategy for Gas-Fired Domestic Hot Water Heaters

CFL Program Strategy Review: No Programmatic "Silver Bullet"

Energy Efficiency Mass Distribution Program Innovations

Home Performance with ENERGY STAR® in California: Moving Into the Spotlight

How Much More Does It Cost to Build an ENERGY STAR® Home? Incremental Cost Estimation Process

Refrigerator Early Retirement, Replacement and Recycling with Community Partners

Saving More with ENERGY STAR

Welcome to your Home Energy Makeover

Residential Sector

Dollars or Sense: Economic versus Social Rationality in Residential Energy Consumption

Resource

Deal or No Deal? Pros and Cons of Trading under an Energy Efficiency Resource Standard

Taking It to the Streets: Innovative Public Engagement Process on Vermont's Electricity Future

Resource Acquisition

What Does It Take to Turn Load Growth Negative? A View from the Leading Edge

Resource Assessment

Beyond Supply Curves

Restaurants

A Market-Based Approach to Energy Efficiency in Hospitality

Case Studies in Restaurant Water Heating

Retail

Benchmarking and Equipment and Controls Assessment for a 'Big Box' Retail Chain

Canadian Standby Power Study of Consumer Electronics and Appliances

Market Penetration of ENERGY STAR Qualified Appliances: An Analysis of Various Predictor Variables

The Greening of Retail: Opportunities for Increased Retail Engagement on Energy Efficiency

Retail Buildings

21st Century Cooling Strategies for Large Retail Facilities in Dry Climates

DOE's Commercial Buildings Program: A Market-Based Approach to Zero Energy Performance

Way Beyond Widgets: Delivering Integrated Lighting Design in Actionable Solutions

Retrocommissioning

Making the Leap: Data and Lessons Learned from Scaling Up Retrocommissioning Programs

Retrocommissioning: A Persistence Study

Retrofits

21st Century Cooling Strategies for Large Retail Facilities in Dry Climates

A Bright Idea in Commercial Lighting: New Brunswick's Success with an Upstream Incentive Approach

Cook County Energy Savers: How Energy Efficiency in Chicago's Multi-Family Buildings Has Evolved to Meet New Challenges from the 1980's to the Present Day

Energy-Related Water Fixture Measurements: Securing the Baseline for Northwest Single Family Homes

Home Performance with ENERGY STAR: Accelerating Energy Efficiency Improvements in Existing Homes

Home Performance with ENERGY STAR® in California: Moving Into the Spotlight

The Challenge of Vapor-Diaphragm Thermostat Retrofits in Existing Multifamily Buildings

Water-Wastewater Program Best Practices: Lessons from the Field

Risk

Risky Business: Development and Implementation of a Risk Assessment Strategy to Guide Program Evaluation

Risk Management Tool

How the "Dirty Dozen" ECMs Created a Need for a Risk Assessment Tool

Roofs

21st Century Cooling Strategies for Large Retail Facilities in Dry Climates

Manufactured Panelized Roof System for Residential Buildings

NightCool: A Nocturnal Radiation Cooling Concept

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Market Penetration of ENERGY STAR Qualified Appliances: An Analysis of Various Predictor Variables

Scenario Analysis

Assessment of Achievable Potential for Energy Efficiency and Demand Response in the U.S. (2010—2030)

Scenarios

Modeling Approaches to Building Energy Efficiency

Schools

Breaking Down Silos: Bridging the Communications and Knowledge Gap between Departments to Implement Energy Efficiency in the Public Sector

Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS): The Process of Mainstreaming Efficiency in Action and the Evolution of CHPS

Scoring Our Schools: Program Implementation Lessons-Learned from Benchmarking Over 1, 775 Schools for Seven Utilities

Streamlining the Small New Construction Market: A Prescriptive Approach to Comprehensive Savings with Core Performance

Scorekeeping

Universal Energy Benchmarking for Commercial Buildings: Making It a Reality in California

Seasonal Energy Efficiency Ratio (SEER)

Measured Effect of Air Flow and Refrigerant Charge on a High-Performance Heat Pump

Peak Demand and Energy Savings from Properly Sized and Matched Air Conditioners

Seasonal Variations

Communicating Thermostats for Residential Time-of-Use Rates: They Do Make a Difference

Seattle City Light

A Blueprint for Re-Building a World Class Conservation Power Plant: Releasing the Hidden Dragon

Segmentation

Segmenting Residential Customers: Energy and Conservation Behaviors

Self-Report Methods

Attribution Methodology Wars: Self-Report Methods versus Statistical Number Crunching — Which Should Win?

Self-Report Survey

Preaching to the Choir: Are Repeat Participants Free Riders?

Sensible EER

Field Tests of Specially Selected Air Conditioners for Hot Dry Climates

Sensor

Field Testing of Commercial Rooftop Units Directed at Performance Verification

Wireless Sensor Technology for Data Centers

Server

Wireless Sensor Technology for Data Centers

Set-Top Boxes

Achieving Real Energy Savings through Consumer Electronics Programs

Shading

Modeling the Impacts of Performance Components in Super Energy Efficient House Designs in Different Climate Zones

Orienting the Neighborhood: A Subdivision Energy Analysis Tool

Shareholder Incentives

Energy Efficiency as the First Resource: Opportunities, Challenges, and Beating the Next Bust

Quantitative Financial Analysis of Alternative Energy Efficiency Program Incentive Mechanisms

Simulation

Assessing the Impact of Behavioral Energy Efficiency Measures: A Simulation Approach

Benchmarking and Equipment and Controls Assessment for a 'Big Box' Retail Chain

Demand Response-Enabled Residential Thermostat Controls

Systems Research on Residential Ventilation

Single-Family Buildings

Energy-Related Water Fixture Measurements: Securing the Baseline for Northwest Single Family Homes

Single-Point Positioning

Common Boiler Excess Air Trends and Strategies to Optimize Efficiency

Slums

Improving Electricity Services and Reducing Energy Losses for the Urban Poor

Small Business

On-Bill Financing of Small Business Energy Efficiency: An Evolving Success Story

Smart Growth

Quantifying the Third Leg: The Potential for Smart Growth to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Smart Mobility: The Cornerstone to Smart Growth

Smart Metering

Smart Metering: What Works and What Doesn't

SMI

Residential Baseload Energy Use: Concept and Potential for AMI Customers

Social

Dollars or Sense: Economic versus Social Rationality in Residential Energy Consumption

Engaging Employees in Conservation Leadership

Social Factors

The "Average American" Unmasked: Social Structure and Differences in Household Energy Use and Carbon Emissions

Social Structure

The "Average American" Unmasked: Social Structure and Differences in Household Energy Use and Carbon Emissions

Socioeconomic Factors

Implications of Ownership in the U.S. and U.K.: An Exploration of ENERGY STAR® Buildings & the Energy Efficiency Accreditation Scheme

It's the Size of the Reduction Target, Stupid! The Need for a Wholesale Re-Think of Energy Efficiency Policy in UK Housing

Solar Heating

Evaluating the Performance and Economics of Transpired Solar Collectors for Commercial Applications

Solar Orientation

Orienting the Neighborhood: A Subdivision Energy Analysis Tool

Solar Water Heating

High Performance Homes in the Southwest: Savings Potential, Cost Effectiveness and Policy Options

Solar Water Heating: Ready for Prime Time?

Solid-State

The State of Solid State Lighting: What Programs Need to Know

Space Cooling

Development of an Integrated Residential Humid Climate HVAC System

Modeling the Impacts of Performance Components in Super Energy Efficient House Designs in Different Climate Zones

NightCool: A Nocturnal Radiation Cooling Concept

Space Heating

Behavior and Energy Savings in Business Establishments

Evaluating the Performance and Economics of Transpired Solar Collectors for Commercial Applications

Quantifying the Effect of the Principal-Agent Problem on U.S. Residential Energy Use

The Challenge of Vapor-Diaphragm Thermostat Retrofits in Existing Multifamily Buildings

Specifications

Achieving Real Energy Savings through Consumer Electronics Programs

Spillover

Market Effects: Claim Them Now or Forever Hold Your Peace

Preaching to the Choir: Are Repeat Participants Free Riders?

SSL

LED Lighting: Applying Lessons Learned from the CFL Experience

Magical Mystery Devices or Not: How Do LED Lamps and Luminaires Really Measure-Up?

Stack Temperature

Common Boiler Excess Air Trends and Strategies to Optimize Efficiency

Stakeholders

DSM Implementation Contracts and Stakeholder Advisory Groups: Considerations for DSM Program Managers

Making Aggressive Levels of Efficiency "Business as Usual" — California's Strategic Plan for the Next Generation of Energy Efficiency

Standard Efficiency

Case Studies in Restaurant Water Heating

Standards

Deal or No Deal? Pros and Cons of Trading under an Energy Efficiency Resource Standard

Standards Education and Training Program as a Resource Program

The Boom of Electricity Demand in the Residential Sector in the Developing World and the Potential for Energy Efficiency

The New Landscape for Appliance Efficiency Standards

Standby Power

Canadian Standby Power Study of Consumer Electronics and Appliances

Low Power Mode Energy Use in California Homes

Residential Baseload Energy Use: Concept and Potential for AMI Customers

Standby Power: Building a Coherent International Policy Framework

State Analysis

State-Level Energy Efficiency Analysis: Goals, Methods and Lessons Learned

State Programs

Consumer Electronics Efficiency Programs: The Next Big Challenge

Debating Net Versus Gross Impacts in the Northeast: Policy and Program Perspectives

Energy Efficient Lighting in Historic Buildings

High Performance Homes in the Southwest: Savings Potential, Cost Effectiveness and Policy Options

Playing with the Big Boys: Energy Efficiency as a Resource in the ISO New England Forward Capacity Market

The Role of State Programs in Promoting New Energy Efficient Technologies

States

Closing the Gap on Building Energy Codes to Achieve Carbon Reductions

Statewide

Making Aggressive Levels of Efficiency "Business as Usual" — California's Strategic Plan for the Next Generation of Energy Efficiency

Statistical Models

Energy Efficiency and Changes in Energy Demand Behavior

Status

Dollars or Sense: Economic versus Social Rationality in Residential Energy Consumption

Strategic Assessment

What's Cooking? Commercial Building Trends in the Food Services Industry

Strategic Planning

Building a Green Capital City: The Natural Step to Madison's Sustainable Design and Energy Future

Making Aggressive Levels of Efficiency "Business as Usual" — California's Strategic Plan for the Next Generation of Energy Efficiency

Strategy

Bringing the Vision to Life: Will Advances in Energy Communication Create a Significant Resource Strategy?

Targeted Marketing Strategies that Increase Energy Efficiency Program Participation of Commercial Companies

Street Layout

Orienting the Neighborhood: A Subdivision Energy Analysis Tool

Structure

Taking the Efficiency Utility Model to the Next Level

Study

Canadian Standby Power Study of Consumer Electronics and Appliances

Sub-Sectors

Modeling Approaches to Building Energy Efficiency

Subdivision Design

Orienting the Neighborhood: A Subdivision Energy Analysis Tool

Sulphur Dioxide

Energy Efficiency, Emissions, and Policy: Strengthening the Links

Summer Thermal Comfort

Towards Adaptive PMV/PPD Indices for European Climates…

Sunnyvale

Addressing Climate Change Concerns at the Municipal Level: A Case Study of the City of Sunnyvale, California

Super-Efficient

Saving More with ENERGY STAR

Superinsulated Homes

Deep Energy Reductions in Existing Homes: Strategies for Implementation

Modeling the Impacts of Performance Components in Super Energy Efficient House Designs in Different Climate Zones

Supply Chain

Leading the Way: BPA's Efforts to Accelerate Energy Efficiency in the Northwest

Supply Curve

Beyond Supply Curves

Survey

Preaching to the Choir: Are Repeat Participants Free Riders?

Sustainability

A New Community Compact: How One Utility Plans to Meet Increasing Resource and Environmental Challenges

Adaptive Climate Protection Policy: Designing a Market-Based Instrument to Promote the Emergence of Carbon-Neutral, Green Buildings

Building a Green Capital City: The Natural Step to Madison's Sustainable Design and Energy Future

Sustainable

From Single Commercial Buildings to Portfolios: Streamlining LEED® Documentation for Volume Customers

Sustainable Communities Program: Increasing Savings by Targeting Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Design

The Greening of Retail: Opportunities for Increased Retail Engagement on Energy Efficiency

Sustainable Cities

Extreme Energy Efficiency on the Path to Climate Stability: A Tale of Two Municipalities

Greening Communities: Integrating Climate Protection Policies into Local Governments' General Plans through Online Collaboration

Leading by Example: Streamlining EE in the Local Government Sector

Sustainable Baltimore ASAP: Assessment Study and Action Plan

Sustainable Efficiency Programs

Deep Energy Reductions in Existing Homes: Strategies for Implementation

Extreme Efficiency: How Far Can We Go If We Really Need To?

Sustainable Baltimore ASAP: Assessment Study and Action Plan

Sustainable Energy Future

Energy Efficiency and Climate Change Mitigation Policy

Moving to New Regulatory Frameworks that Leverage Market Forces to Maximize Societal Uptake of Energy Efficiency

System Efficiency

Case Studies in Restaurant Water Heating

System Identification

Demand Response-Enabled Residential Thermostat Controls

Systems Approach

Building a Green Capital City: The Natural Step to Madison's Sustainable Design and Energy Future

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Case Studies in Restaurant Water Heating

Tankless

Case Studies in Restaurant Water Heating

Task/Ambient

The Advantages of Highly Controlled Lighting for Offices and Commercial Buildings

Tax

Making Fresh AIRE Out of Thin Air: Launching a Local Climate Action Initiative With Minimal State and Utility Involvement

Tax Credits

Moving Ducts Inside: Big Builders, Scientists Find Common Ground

Tax Incentive

Two Contrasting Markets & Approaches: Promoting Efficiency in the Province of New Brunswick and New England

Technical

Review of Recent Midwest DSM Potential Studies

Technology

Cook County Energy Savers: How Energy Efficiency in Chicago's Multi-Family Buildings Has Evolved to Meet New Challenges from the 1980's to the Present Day

LED Lighting: Applying Lessons Learned from the CFL Experience

Technology Assessment

Energy Efficiency Portfolio of the Future

Lighting the Great Outdoors: LEDs in Exterior Applications

National Cooling Initiative: What Are We Waiting For?

Technology Diffusion

EPA Climate Choice: Promoting Emerging Technologies That Protect the Climate

Mandates for Maximizing Cost-Effective Measures in Building Energy Codes: The Promise and Pitfalls during Times of Rapid Evolution

Technology Procurement

ENERGY STAR Quantity Quotes: A New Tool for Reaching Large Purchasers of Energy-Efficient Products

National Cooling Initiative: What Are We Waiting For?

Technology Transfer

Changing Behaviors: Market Transformation Web Sites as Online Narrative

New California PIER R&D Product Introduction Process

Televisions

Achieving Real Energy Savings through Consumer Electronics Programs

Temperature

Wireless Sensor Technology for Data Centers

Tenant

Greening Leased Spaces: Opportunities and Challenges

The Divergence Problem — Meeting "AIA 2030 Challenge" Standards with Existing Buildings: A New York City Tenant Case Study

Testing

Field Testing of Commercial Rooftop Units Directed at Performance Verification

Magical Mystery Devices or Not: How Do LED Lamps and Luminaires Really Measure-Up?

Texas

Scoring Our Schools: Program Implementation Lessons-Learned from Benchmarking Over 1, 775 Schools for Seven Utilities

The Home Depot

The Greening of Retail: Opportunities for Increased Retail Engagement on Energy Efficiency

The Natural Step (TNS)

Building a Green Capital City: The Natural Step to Madison's Sustainable Design and Energy Future

Thermal

Incorrect Business Assumptions and Misappropriation of Cooling Resources, or Why Do We Bring Sweaters to Movie Theaters in the Summer?

Thermal Comfort

A Tale of Two Houses: The Human Dimension of Demand Response Enabling Technology from a Case Study of an Adaptive Wireless Thermostat

Thermal Energy Storage

Distributed Energy Resources On-Site Optimization for Commercial Buildings with Electric and Thermal Storage Technologies

Thermal Model

Design and Optimization of a Mixed Mode Raised Floor and Natural Ventilation System for a High Rise Office Building

HWSIM: Development and Validation of a Residential Hot Water Distribution System Model

Thermal Performance

Appliance Energy Use in America's Second Home: The Automobile

Deep Energy Reductions in Existing Homes: Strategies for Implementation

Thermostat Settings

Demand Response-Enabled Residential Thermostat Controls

Towards Adaptive PMV/PPD Indices for European Climates…

Thermostats

A Tale of Two Houses: The Human Dimension of Demand Response Enabling Technology from a Case Study of an Adaptive Wireless Thermostat

Communicating Thermostats for Residential Time-of-Use Rates: They Do Make a Difference

The Challenge of Vapor-Diaphragm Thermostat Retrofits in Existing Multifamily Buildings

Third Leg

Quantifying the Third Leg: The Potential for Smart Growth to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Time-of-Day Pricing

Collaborative Two-Part AMI Programs for Demand Response and Energy Efficiency

Communicating Thermostats for Residential Time-of-Use Rates: They Do Make a Difference

Experimental Evidence: A Residential Time of Use Pilot

TOU Rates As If Prices Mattered: Reviving an Industry Standard for Today's Utility Environment

Time-of-Day Use

Communicating Thermostats for Residential Time-of-Use Rates: They Do Make a Difference

Experimental Evidence: A Residential Time of Use Pilot

Time-Sensitive Pricing

Integration of Energy Management, Electrical Submetering and Time Sensitive Pricing in a Large Residential Community Utilizing Wireless Communications

Time-Series Analysis

A Comparison of Per-Capita Electricity Consumption in the United States and California

Toolkit

Greening Leased Spaces: Opportunities and Challenges

Training

A Market-Based Approach to Energy Efficiency in Hospitality

Standards Education and Training Program as a Resource Program

Transforming the Practices of Building Operation and Maintenance Professionals: A Washington State Pilot Program

Transformation

Industry-Led Market Transformation

Transforming the Residential Buildings Market through High Performance Homes and a National Home Performance Label: The DOE Builders Challenge

Transit

Green Location: The Critical Role of Land Use in Climate Change and Energy Consumption

Transit Oriented Design

Smart Mobility: The Cornerstone to Smart Growth

Transmission Planning

Creating Regulatory Structures for Robust Demand Response Participation in Organized Wholesale Electric Markets

Transportation

Green Location: The Critical Role of Land Use in Climate Change and Energy Consumption

Life-Cycle Environmental Impacts of the Canadian Residential Sector

Smart Mobility: The Cornerstone to Smart Growth

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Who’s Ahead? Climate Cities Benchmark in Japan, U.S. and Germany

Uncertainty

A Buildings Module for the Stochastic Energy Deployment System

Beyond Supply Curves

Playing with the Big Boys: Energy Efficiency as a Resource in the ISO New England Forward Capacity Market

Pursuing Energy Efficiency as a Hedge against Carbon Regulatory Risks: Current Resource Planning Practices in the West

Universities

New California PIER R&D Product Introduction Process

Upstream

A Bright Idea in Commercial Lighting: New Brunswick's Success with an Upstream Incentive Approach

Two Contrasting Markets & Approaches: Promoting Efficiency in the Province of New Brunswick and New England

Walking the Aisles: Designing Research to Understand CFL Purchase Motivations at the Time of Sale

Urban Design

Green Location: The Critical Role of Land Use in Climate Change and Energy Consumption

Urbanization

A High Energy Diet: The Impact of Lifestyle Changes on Energy Consumption in Food Sales and Food Service

Utility

Assessment of White Certificate Schemes in Europe

Deal or No Deal? Pros and Cons of Trading under an Energy Efficiency Resource Standard

Industry-Led Market Transformation

Is Energy Efficiency Enough? An Exploration of California's Per Capita Electricity Consumption Trends

Making Aggressive Levels of Efficiency "Business as Usual" — California's Strategic Plan for the Next Generation of Energy Efficiency

Retrocommissioning: A Persistence Study

Strategies and Policies for Improving Energy Efficiency Programs: Closing the Loop Between Evaluation and Implementation

Utility Financial Analysis

Quantitative Financial Analysis of Alternative Energy Efficiency Program Incentive Mechanisms

Utility Partnerships

A New Community Compact: How One Utility Plans to Meet Increasing Resource and Environmental Challenges

Utility Planning

A Method for Deriving an Empirical Hourly Base Load Shape from Utility Hourly Total Load Records

Utility Programs

80 PLUS: Market Impacts and Lessons Learned

Dynamic Energy Management

Efficiency in a Climate-Constrained World: Are We Aiming High Enough?

Energy Efficiency Portfolio of the Future

Government Partnership: Measuring Indirect Impacts on the Community

Greater Impacts at Reasonable Costs: Setting and Meeting Energy Efficiency Resource Standards with Best Practices

High Performance Homes in the Southwest: Savings Potential, Cost Effectiveness and Policy Options

Lighting the Great Outdoors: LEDs in Exterior Applications

Making the Leap: Data and Lessons Learned from Scaling Up Retrocommissioning Programs

Measuring CFL Markets: A Collaborative Regional Study on the Northwest's Largest Efficiency Resource

New California PIER R&D Product Introduction Process

Saving More with ENERGY STAR

Sustainable Communities Program: Increasing Savings by Targeting Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Design

The Sustainability and Costs of Increasing Efficiency Impacts: Evidence from Experience to Date

Too Much Stick? Not Enough Carrot? Testing the Presumption of Non-Compliance

Update on Utility Energy Efficiency Programs in the Southwest

Utility Codes and Standards Programs: How Much Energy Do They Save?

Way Beyond Widgets: Delivering Integrated Lighting Design in Actionable Solutions

What's Working Well: Lessons from a National Review of Exemplary Energy Efficiency Programs

UV/Ozone Catalytic Oxidation

Indoor Air Purification Technologies that Allow Reduced Outdoor Air Intake Rates While Maintaining Acceptable Levels of Indoor Air Quality

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Vapor Retarders

Field Monitoring of Wall Vapor Control Strategies in the Pacific Northwest

Variable Air Volume Systems

Energy Efficiency and the Control and Simulation of VAV Systems

Vehicle Miles Traveled

Quantifying the Third Leg: The Potential for Smart Growth to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Smart Mobility: The Cornerstone to Smart Growth

Ventilation

21st Century Cooling Strategies for Large Retail Facilities in Dry Climates

Design and Optimization of a Mixed Mode Raised Floor and Natural Ventilation System for a High Rise Office Building

Evaluating the Performance and Economics of Transpired Solar Collectors for Commercial Applications

Indoor Air Purification Technologies that Allow Reduced Outdoor Air Intake Rates While Maintaining Acceptable Levels of Indoor Air Quality

Modeling the Impacts of Performance Components in Super Energy Efficient House Designs in Different Climate Zones

Systems Research on Residential Ventilation

Verification

Peak Demand and Energy Savings from Properly Sized and Matched Air Conditioners

The Development of an Evaluation, Measurement and Verification Forum for the Northeast Region

Vermont

Taking It to the Streets: Innovative Public Engagement Process on Vermont's Electricity Future

Taking the Efficiency Utility Model to the Next Level

What Does It Take to Turn Load Growth Negative? A View from the Leading Edge

Virtual Refrigerant Charge Sensor

Virtual Refrigerant Charge Sensor

Vision

Bringing the Vision to Life: Will Advances in Energy Communication Create a Significant Resource Strategy?

Halving Residential Lighting Energy Use by 2020: What a Multi-Stakeholder Target and Approach Means for Efficiency Programs

VRF Heat Pumps

Variable Refrigerant Flow: An Emerging Air Conditioner and Heat Pump Technology

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Wal-Mart

The Greening of Retail: Opportunities for Increased Retail Engagement on Energy Efficiency

Wastewater

Value of Energy Efficiency from Water/Wastewater

Water-Wastewater Program Best Practices: Lessons from the Field

Water

Water-Wastewater Program Best Practices: Lessons from the Field

Water Conservation

Deep Energy Savings in a Small Office Building: The Southface Eco-Office Demonstration and Research Project

Energy-Related Water Fixture Measurements: Securing the Baseline for Northwest Single Family Homes

Sustainable Baltimore ASAP: Assessment Study and Action Plan

Water Heating

A Market Transformation Strategy for Gas-Fired Domestic Hot Water Heaters

Case Studies in Restaurant Water Heating

How Energy Efficient Are Modern Dishwashers?

HWSIM: Development and Validation of a Residential Hot Water Distribution System Model

Quantifying the Effect of the Principal-Agent Problem on U.S. Residential Energy Use

Water Usage

21st Century Cooling Strategies for Large Retail Facilities in Dry Climates

Better than the Sum of their Parts: Taking Advantage of the Water-Energy Nexus to Create Dual-Funded Partnership Programs

How Energy Efficient Are Modern Dishwashers?

HWSIM: Development and Validation of a Residential Hot Water Distribution System Model

Web

Bringing the Vision to Life: Will Advances in Energy Communication Create a Significant Resource Strategy?

White Certificates

Assessment of White Certificate Schemes in Europe

Whole Building

Calibration and Collaboration: Important Tools to Design High-Performance Affordable Housing Buildings

Whole Building Design

Deep Energy Savings in a Small Office Building: The Southface Eco-Office Demonstration and Research Project

Streamlining the Small New Construction Market: A Prescriptive Approach to Comprehensive Savings with Core Performance

Whole Building Energy

Green Building Performance Evaluation: Measured Results from LEED New Construction Buildings

Wireless

Transforming the Practices of Building Operation and Maintenance Professionals: A Washington State Pilot Program

Wireless Sensor Technology for Data Centers

Wireless Data Communications

Integration of Energy Management, Electrical Submetering and Time Sensitive Pricing in a Large Residential Community Utilizing Wireless Communications

Wireless Network

A Tale of Two Houses: The Human Dimension of Demand Response Enabling Technology from a Case Study of an Adaptive Wireless Thermostat

Demand Response-Enabled Residential Thermostat Controls

Wisconsin

Building and Remodeling a New Construction Program

Quantifying the "Real World" Impacts of Early Design Involvement and the Implications for New Construction Program Design, Implementation and Evaluation

Wisconsin Energy Star Homes

On a Crash Course? How Two Programs Avoid a Market Collision and Work Together

Workforce

Home Performance with ENERGY STAR: Accelerating Energy Efficiency Improvements in Existing Homes

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Zero Energy

DOE's Commercial Buildings Program: A Market-Based Approach to Zero Energy Performance

Zero Energy Peak from Zero Energy Homes

Zero Net Energy

Sustainable Communities Program: Increasing Savings by Targeting Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Design