Ecos Research Toolbox
Creativity and Data To Find Solutions
With over 60 years of combined experience in energy efficiency technical and policy research, our staff craft innovative solutions to clients’ most pressing challenges. We specialize not just in defining what makes a particular solution energy efficient, but in conducting the laboratory testing and developing the standardized test procedures that objectively distinguish one product’s performance from another.
Battery Research
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Hundreds of Resources
Laying the Foundation for Change
With a strong blend of creativity, analytics and concise communication our team has been leading the way to find new opportunities to promote energy efficiency. Visit our resource library to learn more about the issues we investigate, our research capabilities and the background for current work we are doing.
What We Do
Public Policy Consulting
Promote Widespread Adoption of Environmentally Preferred Consumer Products
Discover New Opportunities for Energy Efficiency
Maximize Energy Use Reduction While Maintaining Robust Consumer Choice
11.24.2015
The Big Picture: Ultra High-Definition Televisions Could Add $1 Billion to Viewers’ Annual Electric Bills
With an estimated 300 million installed televisions in the United States — almost one per person — it is clear that Americans love their televisions
05.2014
Commercial Demand Response — Basics and Beyond
Demand response programs serve a necessary role in the electrical system. When generation and transmission (G&T) resources are near their limits, the choice is often to import expensive power or run costly peaking plants.
04.02.2018
Challenges and Choices in the Era of Cheap, Abundant Renewables
Chris Calwell presented this high level overview of recent advances in the scale of renewable energy projects and decline in their cost at an April 2018 community meeting in Durango
03.13.2018
Zero Net Energy For Commercial Buildings
David Houghton PE Talks about commercial Zero Net Energy (ZNE) concepts and applications in commercial and educational buildings in March 2018.
Energy Efficiency News
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Mark Your Calendars for the 2019 City Clean Energy Scorecard
Next Thursday, ACEEE will release the 2019 City Clean Energy Scorecard, our most robust report ever to track city progress toward climate goals. […]
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Going Clean: How Energy Efficiency Is Helping States Zero Out Emissions
A growing number of states are adopting ambitious clean energy goals, aiming to zero out emissions in the power sector and, in some cases, the […]
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Here are six ways we have slashed US energy use by a fifth
Major energy efficiency policies slashed US energy use by about 20% in 2017, saving a whopping 25 quads of energy —the amount used in […]
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DOE refuses public hearing on a proposal that could gut US appliance standards
UPDATE (June 26): After receiving our renewed public hearing request and similar requests from a number of manufacturers and AHRI, an industry […]
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Cannabis and indoor agriculture can slash overhead costs with energy efficiency
As the market for indoor agriculture in North America surges, businesses, growers, and states are finding innovative ways to slash energy costs that […]