Rural, hard-to-reach (HTR), tribal, and disadvantaged communities (DAC) face significant barriers to electrification. The market for electrification solutions in rural California is fragmented, with gaps in infrastructure, workforce, supply chain, and customer engagement. Most rural areas rely on...

Deemed measures rely on competing goals of accuracy and volume to ensure that the gross claims are reasonable. In the current California eTRM (electronic Technical Reference Manual), deemed measures increasingly have relied on more extensive and more complex data collection to ensure a claim...

Project OverviewTo meet California’s emissions reduction goals under Assembly Bill 1279, which mandates reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to 85% below 1990 levels by 2045, widespread electrification of residential cooking is critical. Gas stoves are a major source of indoor combustion gases,...

There are 500,000 mobile and manufactured housing (MMH) units in California [1]. Most of these units are old and inefficient, estimated to consume 40% more energy than single-family homes [2]. To meet California’s aggressive decarbonization and electrification goals, it is critical to investigate...

This project is a market study that will explore commercial and industrial (C&I) and agricultural market potential and assess how Wastewater Energy Transfer (WET) heat exchangers and heat pumps can decrease energy consumption and demand, decrease operating costs and increase building energy...

This project focuses on the modeling and laboratory evaluation of integrating vacuum insulating glazing (VIG) units with dynamic solar control. VIG products have the potential to improve thermal performance of windows to below U-0.0625 (above R-16) while dynamic solar control (electrochromic or...

VEIC proposes to research the interplay of and Intelligent Power Management Technologies (IPMTs) with individual power efficient plug loads such as battery integrated appliances (stoves) and 120V appliances (heat pump water heaters, clothes dryers, room heat pumps). Evaluating power efficient plug...

The PG&E HVAC Tool, developed to estimate savings for retro-commissioning (RCx) measures in commercial buildings pursuing utility incentives in California, has faced limited adoption due to the need for additional validation and California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) approval. To address...

Indoor agriculture in California faces increasing demands to reduce energy consumption and environmental impact while delivering high-quality yields. Recent Department of Energy (“DOE”) data highlights that horticultural lighting alone consumed 9.6 Terawatt Hour ("TWh") of electricity nationwide in...

As multifamily buildings adopt heat pumps and other sophisticated technologies, they are encountering problems with maintenance and operations. Multifamily buildings tend to have no central controls and either no permanent...