The Honda Smart Home is a fully functional zero net energy (ZNE) home located in Davis, California, containing many advanced design elements. Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) partnered with Honda to monitor the performance and grid integration of the Honda Smart Home. PG&E also...

Energy harvesting device that has activation and catalytic functions. By wrapping the device to the pipes containing flow of electricity, oil or other fossil fuel, this device harvests energy from the environment and resonant tunneling through inner portions of the pipes to activate flowing medium...

DC sanders are designed to replace traditional sanders that run on compressed air systems that are inefficient and waste energy. This technology is designed to improve reliability and energy efficiency across this application in commercial and industrial...

The purpose of this project is to perform laboratory and field tests of commercially available pool pumps and pool pump controllers designed to enable curtailment of pool pump loads in response to DR event (curtailment) or pricing signals. This work is a follow-up to prior studies that estimated...

Lab and field assessment of large quick service restaurant chain's new cheese melter. The existing cheese melters, consisting of two cavities, will be replaced by newer models that have one larger cavity. Existing cookie-cutter restaurants have two units for a total of four cavities. The new models...

Conveyor broilers are commercial food service appliances used in quick-service restaurants. Conveyor broilers apply heat to both the top and bottom of the food as it travels through the appliance on a steel conveyor belt. This project will validate savings claims for conveyor broilers at a major...

A grocery store customer within PG&E territory installed Anti-fog film on the inside glass of a five-door frozen food display case and the door anti-sweat heat was disabled on the doors of the display case. PECI analyzed actual energy consumption for three weeks before and three weeks after the...

Scaled placement of Advanced Lighting Controls platform and 2x4 LED panels. PG&E had a unique opportunity to verify the energy efficiency potential for two similar floors of a large office building where one floor kept the T-8 3-lamp fluorescent fixtures and the second floor replaced them with 2x4...

PG&E worked with a retail grocery store chain to study heat recovery in a new supermarket in Santa Clara County, California.  Energy analysis and field monitoring were conducted to better understand the natural gas savings and consequent electric energy penalty associated with a heat...

Evaluate a demand defrost control technology for a grocery medium temperature display case...