The goals of the Field Study were to explore the technical and experience components of Connected Home products with a dual focus on assessing customers’ experience and energy impacts. Survey instruments were designed to meet most of the customer experience analysis objectives. In...

The purpose of this project was to conduct laboratory testing on the Indirect/Direct Evaporative Cooler (IDEC) to characterize its performance across typical cooling season weather conditions in climate zones 7 and 10.  The IDEC provides cooling very efficiently using only two sets of fans and...

This project evaluates market-ready connected plug load devices for opportunities in plug load programs. Unlike previous approaches that focus only on the programmatic or technology side, the approach used in this study evaluates the intersectionality between technical capability and program...

For purposes of this project, a vendor managed BMS was selected, that focuses on fast food restaurants, other quick service restaurants, and convenience stores with significant on-site refrigeration and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment. Other controllable building systems...

This IOU Pilot/ET Project had three main goals:Demonstrate the technical feasibility of ZNE retrofits in public K-14 schools statewide through 13-18 geographically and demographically diverse projects.Disseminate lessons learned regarding the technical design process and the implementation process...

Energy storage technologies – and battery energy storage systems (BESS) in particular – have become increasingly popular across global markets over the last five years. BESS technology is now commonly hailed as a panacea solution to help address numerous problems with legacy electric...

The Pacific Gas and Electric Central Valley Research Homes (CVRH) project is the product of multiple years of effort by leading energy efficiency researchers and represents a significant investment of funding from the California Energy Commission, California Investor Owned Utilities (IOUs), and...

The Pacific Gas and Electric Central Valley Research Homes (CVRH) project is the product of multiple years of effort by leading energy efficiency researchers and represents a significant investment of funding from the California Energy Commission, California Investor Owned Utilities (IOUs), and...

The Pacific Gas and Electric Central Valley Research Homes (CVRH) project is the product of multiple years of effort by leading energy efficiency researchers and represents a significant investment of funding from the California Energy Commission, California Investor Owned Utilities (IOUs), and...

This project is an aggressive multi-disciplinary, comprehensive, whole building approach to designing and constructing a net zero energy retrofit of an existing low-income multi-family complex. To the best of our knowledge this will be the first Multi-family Net Zero/ Deep Energy Reduction (DER)...