| CEC Issue |
Technical Goal |
Objective |
|
Rapid energy consumption growth inland
|
Characterize issue and identify highest value future opportunities |
Future program plans |
| Load reduction strategies |
Reduce cooling energy use in new and
existing buildings |
| Load management |
Increase consumer load management choices |
| Increase consumer options to shift load |
| Energy-efficient design and construction
strategies for distributed heating, cooling and generation. |
| Non-energy benefits |
Characterize issue and identify highest value future opportunities |
Future program plans |
| Quantitative metrics
for non-energy benefits |
Enable account
for non-energy benefits |
| Technologies that
are energy-efficient and provide non-energy benefits |
Increase functionality
and use of energy-efficient products by integrating with non-energy |
| Develop design
methods |
Increase functionality
and use of energy-efficient products by integrating with non-energy |
| Public health and safety |
Characterize issue and identify highest value future opportunities |
Future program plans |
| Building features and construction practices
for IAQ and moisture |
| Metrics, sensors, and controls for health,
safety and energy |
Enable mitigation of health and safety
problems |
| Options for sensing and controlling moisture
and IAQ |
| Improve energy efficiency and enhance
health and safety |
Ventilation and construction techniques
that mitigate moisture and IA problems. |
| Building and housing affordability & value
and state's economy |
Characterize issue and identify highest value future opportunities |
Future program plans |
| Software tools |
Design and compliance tools for energy
standards |
| Simulation software for CA to improve
HVAC performance and design |
| Simplified design tools for CA climates |
| Increase building value |
New innovations |
| Highest value strategies and technologies
for retrofit |
| Strategies responsive to current construction
practices (including metal framing) |
| Create downsized equipment for multi-family
applications. |
| Strategies and tools to verify performance
and investment value |
Tools for M&V (commissioning & diagnostic
tools) |
| Tools to verify installation of insulation,
envelope sealing, and duct sealing |
| System approaches that maximize value |
Integrated, multi functionality equipment
and appliances |
| Increase building functionality and decrease
operating costs by design and construction for CA climates |
| Integration of energy-efficient strategies
and products with other building elements |
