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Comfort Ready Home: New smart thermostat homeowner video 

Smart thermostats are a useful tool to set your heat pump schedule and use your heating ventilation and air conditioning system more efficiently. This new video can be shared with homeowners to communicate the benefits and features that keep homes comfortable. Other homeowner user guide videos are also available from Comfort Ready Home.

Evaluation project update 

BPA provides stakeholders with regular status updates on our evaluation projects. Our latest updates cover progress made on three evaluations launched in 2023. These include a process evaluation of Low-Income Energy Efficiency program, an impact evaluation on BPA’s nonresidential lighting portfolio and an impact evaluation on residential air source heat pumps and variable speed pumps...More

Events

BPA webinar: Measurement & Verification Protocol 

Please join us May 2 from 10 - 11 a.m. PDT for the Measurement & Verification (M&V) Protocol webinar, providing a general overview of the BPA M&V Protocols and key updates. These new protocols will be posted on the custom project protocols webpage following the webinar...More

2024 Efficiency Exchange Conference location change

General

Trade Ally Network NW status update 

Due to unforeseen delays in the BPA contracting process, BPA is anticipating an interruption in services provided by the Trade Ally Network NW program beginning June 1, 2024. It is currently estimated that a new contract for lighting project field services support will be in place by Oct. 1, 2024. During this gap in service BPA will be supporting utility commercial lighting projects with internal staff. The process for requesting lighting support services will remain the same with utilities emailing Lighting@bpa.gov with project details and a request for support. TradeAllyNetwork.com will begin redirecting users to bpa.gov to access key resources, tools and marketing materials. Trade Allies will be notified explaining the website migration and lighting project support model. 

If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to your energy efficiency representative.

UES measure list corrections notice: advanced smart thermostats 

In April 2023, BPA published notice that it would be reducing savings in several advanced thermostat measures. When these changes were implemented, BPA mistakenly failed to reduce 30 standard income advanced thermostat measures in BEETS. BPA has since corrected this mistake. Measures reported to BPA before this correction was made will not be retroactively adjusted. BPA will provide a savings comparison upon request by utilities. Please contact your energy efficiency representative if you have any questions or concerns.