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The What, Why, and How of Customer Experience Management
An E Source White Paper
March 7, 2012
What is utility customer experience management? It’s a simple concept but understanding it, measuring it, and enhancing it is much more difficult.
Content type: White Paper | Document ID: ES-WP-13 | Author: Justin Rickard and Maureen Russolo
Community-Scale Environmental Measures and Urban Heat Island Impacts
March 5, 2012
Community-scale environmental measures can reduce energy use community wide, but the impacts of the technologies and their interactions are not well quantified. This project will use advanced computer simulations to predict the outcome of community-scale environmental measures.
Content type: Fact Sheet | Document ID: CEC-FS-13 | Author: California Energy Commission/Public Interest Energy Research
Improving Real-World Efficiency of High-Performance Buildings
March 5, 2012
High-performance buildings are designed to maximize energy efficiency, but those improvements aren’t always realized. A study will assess achieved performance in selected California buildings, and follow-up projects will identify feedback loops and tools to help stakeholders optimize building performance. ...
Content type: Fact Sheet | Document ID: CEC-FS-14 | Author: California Energy Commission/Public Interest Energy Research
LED Manufacturing Process Modifications Will Boost Quality and Cut Costs
February 9, 2012
Light-emitting diode (LED) lighting products have made great strides in terms of performance, but LED manufacturing techniques have not kept up. Researchers will develop an advanced layering technique that will cut manufacturing costs and increase the efficiency of the process by which LEDs convert electricity ...
Content type: Fact Sheet | Document ID: CEC-FS-12 | Author: California Energy Commission/Public Interest Energy Research
How Efficient Are New Homes in California?
January 5, 2012
A study examined 40 single‑family and 40 multifamily units (apartments and townhouses) that were built under the 2005 Building Energy Efficiency Standards for Residential Buildings. Data showed that the homes often didn’t perform up to code.
Content type: Tech Brief | Document ID: CEC-TB-62 | Author: Ira Krepchin
Advanced LED Downlighting System
October 10, 2011
Newly designed downlights use light-emitting diodes to their full potential while maintaining the features and functionality that have made them popular.
Content type: Tech Brief | Document ID: CEC-TB-52 | Author: Essie Snell
PowerWalking 2011: Man on the Street Energy Interviews
September 20, 2011
The latest installment in our series of PowerWalking videos.
Content type: Powerwalking | Document ID: PW-2011 | Author: Bill LeBlanc
Achieving Zero-Net Energy Affordable Multifamily Homes
July 21, 2011
Developing affordable zero-net energy (ZNE) multifamily housing requires unique technical and financing models. Two San Diego developers have demonstrated the success of such development models in supporting California's bold ZNE goals.
Content type: Tech Brief | Document ID: CEC-TB-48 | Author: Bryan Jungers
Developing Energy-Efficient Communities
July 21, 2011
The potential exists to make new communities far more efficient than current codes require. This brief describes research that helped to quantify that potential and explored the technologies, strategies, and policies that would make it real.
Content type: Tech Brief | Document ID: CEC-TB-46 | Author: Ira Krepchin
Managing Energy Costs in Manufacturing Facilities
June 6, 2011
This Business Energy Advisor topic provides end users with information on managing energy costs in manufacturing facilities.
Content type: Commercial Energy Advisor | Author: Lee Hamilton
Planning for Renewable-Based Energy Security and Prosperity in Humboldt County
May 1, 2011
The project team will develop and implement an energy‐optimization model to determine a renewable‐based energy portfolio for Humboldt County that reduces greenhouse gas emissions, maximizes local economic benefits and maintains grid stability.
Content type: Fact Sheet | Document ID: CEC-FS-3 | Author: California Energy Commission/Public Interest Energy Research
Lighting the Way to Demand Response
April 21, 2011
Commercially available advanced lighting-control systems can be used today in demand-response programs. This Tech Brief examines the cost, the potential savings, and the best way to implement these systems.
Content type: Tech Brief | Document ID: CEC-TB-47 | Author: Ira Krepchin
The Advanced Natural Gas Vehicle Fuel Tank Project
April 1, 2011
This research will develop a replacement for the bulky cylindrical, heavy‐walled compressed natural gas tanks currently used in natural gas vehicles. The tank will have a storage capacity that meets the U.S. Department of Energy target.
Content type: Fact Sheet | Document ID: CEC-FS-2 | Author: California Energy Commission/Public Interest Energy Research
Research on External Power Supplies Will Save Californians Millions
April 1, 2011
If all existing stock of power supplies were upgraded to the California Energy Commission’s external power supply standard, Californians would save an estimated 644 gigawatts per hour the amount of energy used by 92,000 homes in one year, or about $90 million annually.
Content type: Fact Sheet | Document ID: CEC-FS-1 | Author: California Energy Commission/Public Interest Energy Research
Managing Energy Costs in Laboratories
March 31, 2011
This Facility Energy Advice topic provides end users with information on managing energy costs in laboratories.
Content type: Commercial Energy Advisor | Document ID: CEA-15 | Author: Essie Snell
Efficiency and Air Quality Implications of Distributed Generation and Combined Heat and Power in California
March 1, 2011
This project is investigating the efficiencies of distributed generation power combined with heating and cooling usage. Specific market sectors were identified as having the highest potential for wide‐scale urban implementation of distributed generation/combined heat and power in the near future.
Content type: Fact Sheet | Document ID: CEC-FS-4 | Author: California Energy Commission/Public Interest Energy Research
New Energy Efficient Infrared Drying and Blanching Technologies for Fruits and Vegetables
March 1, 2011
The proposed research is to develop and demonstrate an infrared dry‐blanching and drying system for fruits or vegetables that results in high quality products. The sequential infrared and freeze‐drying method and infrared dry‐blanching and dehydration method are discussed.
Content type: Fact Sheet | Document ID: CEC-FS-5 | Author: California Energy Commission/Public Interest Energy Research
Life-Cycle Energy Assessment of Smart Growth Strategies
March 1, 2011
This research will develop a life‐cycle assessment methodology that will help stakeholders analyze and evaluate the energy and emission impacts of smart growth projects. This method will include a means to quantify the embedded energy in the infrastructure.
Content type: Fact Sheet | Document ID: CEC-FS-8 | Author: California Energy Commission/Public Interest Energy Research
Comparing Utilization Data for Siting New Wind Power Generation
March 1, 2011
Avian use data from the Altamont Pass wind resource area in Alameda County will be adjusted for observer biases so the data can be used to develop predictive models of avian use.
Content type: Fact Sheet | Document ID: CEC-FS-6 | Author: California Energy Commission/Public Interest Energy Research
Healthy Zero Energy Buildings
March 1, 2011
The Healthy Zero Energy Buildings program is a six‐year, two‐phase multidisciplinary program that includes field and chamber studies and modeling to investigate indoor air quality, energy use, and human outcomes as a function of ventilation rates.
Content type: Fact Sheet | Document ID: CEC-FS-9 | Author: California Energy Commission/Public Interest Energy Research
Collaborative Lubricating Oil Study on Emissions
January 1, 2011
This project will determine the sources of particulate matter and semivolatile organic compound emissions in vehicles.
Content type: Fact Sheet | Document ID: CEC-FS-7 | Author: California Energy Commission/Public Interest Energy Research
Heavy-Duty Vehicle Emissions and Fuel Consumption Improvement
January 1, 2011
The purpose of this research was to evaluate the combination of vehicle platforms and technologies that would result in the largest real‐world emissions reductions and fuel consumption improvements.
Content type: Fact Sheet | Document ID: CEC-FS-10 | Author: California Energy Commission/Public Interest Energy Research
Third-Party Verification of Greenhouse Gas Inventories
An E Source White Paper
December 17, 2010
Should corporations that voluntarily choose to report their GHG emissions seek third-party verification of their inventories? Should the audit be performed by an ANSI-accredited verifier? This E Source White Paper examines how to approach seeking an audit for a corporate GHG inventory.
Content type: White Paper | Document ID: ES-WP-11 | Author: Kevin Vranes
Managing Energy Costs in Agriculture
December 7, 2010
This Commercial Energy Advisor provides end users with information on managing energy costs in agriculture operations.
Content type: Commercial Energy Advisor | Document ID: CEA-14 | Author: Mary Horsey
The Smart Grid Is Not About Residential Energy Efficiency—Yet
An E Source White Paper
December 6, 2010
References to the energy-efficiency benefits expected to flow from smart grid deployments are commonplace. Not all actions that reduce the energy bill, however, constitute energy efficiency in the strict meaning of the term; many are properly classified as conservation or load shifting, neither of which ...
Content type: White Paper | Document ID: ES-WP-10 | Author: Michael Reid
New Engine Technology for California’s Combined Heat and Power Market
December 1, 2010
The project will adapt a modern automotive engine to run on natural gas and then modify the engine mechanisms to improve its fuel efficiency by about 10 percent.
Content type: Fact Sheet | Document ID: CEC-FS-11 | Author: California Energy Commission/Public Interest Energy Research
Managing Costs in Multifamily Residences
August 13, 2010
This Business Energy Advisor topic provides end users with information on managing energy costs in multifamily buildings.
Content type: Commercial Energy Advisor | Document ID: BEA-Q1-2010 | Author: Kathleen Stevenson and Jay Stein
Managing Energy Costs in Warehouses
Managing Energy Costs in Warehouses
August 11, 2010
This Commercial Energy Advisor provides end users with information on managing energy costs in Warehouses.
Content type: Commercial Energy Advisor | Document ID: CEA-13 | Author: Micah Allen
Launching Energy-Efficiency Programs: Ten Lessons for Success (and One for Failure)
An E Source White Paper
January 13, 2010
Following several demand-side management program design best practices can help utilities build successful programs; a few other practices will almost guarantee disaster. Learn how new social marketing methods can influence the potential success or failure of a new program.
Content type: White Paper | Document ID: ES-WP-9 | Author: Courtney DeWinter
Self-Service Payment: Take the Money
An E Source White Paper
December 7, 2009
Residential customers want to give you their money. That’s the good news. The bad news is that utility self-service payment features are making it hard for customers to hand it over.
Content type: White Paper | Document ID: ES-WP-8 | Author: Florence Connally and Maggie Boys
