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March 2012
AEECRC March Meeting
Graham Parker, PNNL - Lab Homes: A Matched Pair of Homes for Retrofit Technology Demonstrations - Two new research facilities at the U.S. DOE’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will serve as a test bed for studying energy efficient and smart homes. Graham Parker from the Pacific Northwest National Lab will present. PNNL and its partners are using the identical, 1,500 square-foot homes for experiments focused on reducing energy use and peak demand on the electric grid. Research and demonstration primarily…
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AEECRC April Meeting
Joe Junker will present on: Oregon State University's Energy Efficiency Center Joe Junker, Director, OSU Energy Efficiency Center, will present information about the OSU energy efficiency center and related programs. The meeting will be held in the Wistar Morris conference room inside the main hospital building.
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AEECRC June Meeting
Ground Source Heat Pumps - Ruwan Jayaweera, PE, Associate, PAE Consulting Engineers Ruwan Jayaweera, P.E., Associate with PAE Consulting Engineers will present on: Ground Source Heat Pumps A discussion about the various types of ground source heat pumps, how they work, and how their efficiencies compare with traditional building mechanical systems. Also included are examples of ground source system installations.
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AEECRC July Meeting
Presentation topic - Continuous Commissioning With Advanced Meters Matthew Lutz, LEED GA GSA - Northwest Arctic Region will present on: Driving Energy Reduction Through Continuous Commissioning With Advanced Meters. How we use consumption graphs to look for anomalies, ask pointed questions and offer suggested places to look for issues.
Find out more »September 2012
AEECRC September Meeting
Note: this month's meeting will be at Legacy Health's Good Samaritan campus in NW Portland but is in a different building. It will be in the Northrup conference room located on the ground floor of the Northrup building. Presenter: Adam Scherba from the New Buildings Institute Topic: Low-cost inverse energy modeling for building performance diagnostics and benchmarking To make dramatic progress toward very low-energy buildings, owners, designers and energy program managers need prompt and meaningful feedback on whole-building measured performance. Such high-level insights…
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AEECRC October Meeting
DENT Instruments: Advanced Measurement Solutions for Monitoring Building Energy Use and Performance This month we continue our recent energy use monitoring and measurement theme with a presentation by Christopher Dent, president of DENT Instruments. DENT manufactures energy and power measurement instruments and dataloggers which provide users with meaningful energy data that is used to accurately allocate energy costs, identify energy cost-savings opportunities and lower utility bills. These cost-effective, installer-friendly instruments are used by energy professionals worldwide for building submetering, measurement…
Find out more »November 2012
AEECRC November Meeting
Planning & Board Nominations Discussion Bring your ideas for future themes and presentations for the Chapter. Nominate yourself or an associate for Board membership and take the reins in building this dynamic professional association of energy professionals. AEECRC participates in the region by providing local training opportunities in the internationally accredited trainings through the AEE programs, attending the West Coast Energy Mangement Conference, recognizing student leadership in energy engineering by sponsoring awards at the Intel Northwest Science Exposition and participating…
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AEECRC January Meeting
PNNL Presentation on SSL Troffers Naomi Miller from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will present on: LED Recessed Troffers: Kits, tubes and fixtures LEDs are now competing with the ubiquitous 2x2 and 2x4 fluorescent troffer for offices and classrooms. They offer energy savings, long life, improved color, and easy dimming in response to daylight or user choice or application need. The DOE CALiPER Program recently purchased and photometered 24 pairs of these luminaires, mostly dedicated LED luminaires, but also some…
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AEECRC February Meeting
Portland's BPS' Energy Assessment Program for Small Commercial Buildings w/ SOLARARC Energy Assessments Target Portland’s Smallest Buildings + New Rebate Offer In the fall of 2012 the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability (BPS) hired SOLARC Engineering and Energy+Architectural Consulting to perform energy assessments for small commercial buildings in Portland. BPS would make these assessments available at no cost to owners and tenants of commercial building under 10,000 square feet. This sector was targeted because of their historically low uptake in…
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AEECRC March Meeting
Chiller Plant with All-Variable-Speed Loop Control Technology Assessment Join us as Jeremy Blanchard, C.E.M, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, (PNNL), presents on the results of a study of Chiller Plants using All-Variable Speed Loop Control Technology. A measured demonstration of a chiller plant using all-variable-speed loop control technology was performed at a 29-story U.S. Courthouse in St. Louis, MO in support of the U.S. General Services Administration’s Green Proving Ground program. The chiller plant was retrofitted from a constant-speed chiller plant to a variable-speed…
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