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This database currently includes about 300 technologies and is updated regularly. You can scroll through the entire database or you can use the search tool on the right to focus on specific types of technologies or sectors. The search tool defaults to looking for the exact phrase entered in the search box, however a broader search is possible by unchecking the 'Use exact phrase' option.
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ECPM Motors for Evaporator Fans in Refrigerated Cases, Walk-In Freezers and Coolers
Replacement of low-efficiency shaded pole and permanent split capacitor (PSC) evaporator fan drive motors in supermarket refrigerated cases, walk-in freezers and refrigerators, beverage merchandisers, and refrigerated vending machines with highly efficiency electronically...
TAG Technical Score:
 
Energy Savings: 67%
 
ID: 205
 
Efficient Laboratory Hoods
A package of lab hood efficiency measures including heat recovery and automatic sash positioning.
TAG Technical Score:
 
Energy Savings: 30%
Regional Potential: 0.42 MWh/year
ID: 185
 
Electrochromic Retrofit Window Coatings
Window coatings retrofitted to existing windows that can reduce solar heat gain and glare when the voltage to these thin films is adjusted (these have only recently become commercially available).
TAG Technical Score:
 
Energy Savings: 19%
Regional Potential: 0.08 MWh/year
ID: 419
 
Electrochromic Windows
Windows that can modulate heat gain, light transmittance, and glare from the sun and can be controlled locally or by an energy management system.
TAG Technical Score:
 
Energy Savings: 19%
Regional Potential: 0.02 MWh/year
ID: 262
 
Energy Efficient Commercial and Industrial Transformers
Improved efficiency distribution transformers are available for use in the industrial and commercial sectors. Existing efficiency standards cover three-phase low and medium voltage liquid and dry-type transformers.
TAG Technical Score:
 
Energy Savings: 35%
 
ID: 612
 
Energy Efficient Escalators
Sensors that begin escalator operation when occupancy is detected and operates for a preset time after the occupant reaches their destination.
TAG Technical Score:
 
Energy Savings: 35%
Regional Potential: 0.00 MWh/year
ID: 546
 
Energy Efficient Office Phones
Office phones that use about half the energy as those in common use.
TAG Technical Score:
 
Energy Savings: 38%
Regional Potential: 0.10 MWh/year
ID: 428
 
Energy Efficient Stationary Engine Block Heater
Block heater with circulating pump to reduce energy use.
TAG Technical Score:
 
Energy Savings: 36%
Regional Potential: 0.07 MWh/year
ID: 381
 
Energy Recovery Ventilator with Heat and Membrane Humidity Exchangers for Commercial Application
An air-to-air heat exchanger that transfers both sensible and latent heat between the exhaust air stream and the fresh air stream using one of a number of membrane-based technologies.
TAG Technical Score:
 
Energy Savings: 65%
Regional Potential: 4.88 MWh/year
ID: 461
 
Energy Use Benchmarking Tool Using Utility Meter Data
Reports for building managers that summarize their building energy use (based on utility meter) and compares it to other buildings of a similar type.
TAG Technical Score:
 
Energy Savings: 5%
 
ID: 365
 
EnergyCAP Energy Management Software
This is a powerful energy management software tool for large or complex organizations that want to measure, manage, and save on utility bills.There are other options for smaller facilities too.
TAG Technical Score:
 
Energy Savings: 5%
 
ID: 335
 
Engineered Window Louvers for Daylighting
Integrated micro-louvers / blinds with curves engineered to redirect daylight coming through higher windows up toward the ceiling and further into a building without glare. Louvers are sandwiched within the window and either fixed or sun-tracking while lower windows have...
TAG Technical Score:
 
Energy Savings: 16%
Regional Potential: 0.01 MWh/year
ID: 514
 
Enterprise Energy Management
A combination of software, data acquisition hardware and communication systems used to collect, analyze and display building information. This information is used to help commercial building energy managers, facility managers, financial managers and electric utilities re...
TAG Technical Score:
 
Energy Savings: 10%
 
ID: 174
 
Evaporator Fan Controllers
An evaporator fan controller monitors refrigerant flow or compressor drive motor amps and reduces the speed of evaporator fans when the compressor is off. Especially useful for walk-in coolers and freezers.
TAG Technical Score:
 
Energy Savings: 30%
Regional Potential: 0.02 MWh/year
ID: 147
 
FANWALL Technology
An air handler made up of an array of smaller fans that replaces a single large fan.
TAG Technical Score:
 
Energy Savings: 5%
Regional Potential: 0.01 MWh/year
ID: 177
 
Fiber Optics for Daylighting
Use of fiber optic cables to convey daylight into a building's interior from sun-tracking rooftop collectors that use parabolic mirrors or Fresnel lenses.
TAG Technical Score:
 
Energy Savings: 70%
Regional Potential: 1.21 MWh/year
ID: 143
 
Fluorescent Lighting Dimming Controls
Lighting controls have been developed to dim fluorescent lighting systems for architectural ambience or activity-specific needs. Dimming down to 1% of full output is possible with continuous dimming providing daylight harvesting while providing smooth light-level reducti...
TAG Technical Score:
 
Energy Savings: 28%
Regional Potential: 0.51 MWh/year
ID: 103
 
Freezer "Anti-Sweat" Heater Controller
A controller that turns off anti-sweat heaters when not needed on reach-in supermarket refrigerated cases.
TAG Technical Score:
 
Energy Savings: 30%
Regional Potential: 0.12 MWh/year
ID: 24
 
Heat Pump Clothes Dryer, Commercial
Commercial clothes dryer that employs heat pump technology.
TAG Technical Score:
 
Energy Savings: 50%
Regional Potential: 0.17 MWh/year
ID: 438
 
Heat Pump Water Heaters for Commercial Kitchens
Heat pump water heater or reverse cycle chiller designed for use in commercial kitchens.
TAG Technical Score:
 
Energy Savings: 50%
 
ID: 292
 
Heat Recovery Ventilator for Commercial Applications
A heat exchanger to heat or cool incoming fresh or outside air, capturing about 50% to 70% of the sensible heat from the exhaust air that would otherwise be discharged into the atmosphere.
TAG Technical Score:
 
Energy Savings: 30%
Regional Potential: 2.26 MWh/year
ID: 20
 
High Performance Troffers
Good quality design of fluorescent fixtures provides more effective use of lighting, potentially allowing using lower light levels and encouraging installation of high-quality, high-performance fluorescent lighting, especially as a replacement for parabolic fixtures.
TAG Technical Score:
 
Energy Savings: 15%
Regional Potential: 0.27 MWh/year
ID: 129
 
High-Bay Fluorescent Lighting
High-output T5 and high performance T8 fluorescent lighting systems are now capable of replacing high intensity discharge (HID) lighting in many interior spaces with mountings well above 25 feet, and some exterior spaces as well, while offering reduced energy use, more co...
TAG Technical Score:
 
Energy Savings: 50%
Regional Potential: 1.50 MWh/year
ID: 26
 
Hotel Room Automation
Automation for hotel rooms using sensors (infrared, motion, etc) to detect when the room is empty, to set back the HVAC thermostat set-point and to turn off lights.
TAG Technical Score:
 
Energy Savings: 35%
Regional Potential: 0.42 MWh/year
ID: 97
 
HVAC Embedded Fault Detection and Diagnostics
Smart equipment for commercial and residential HVAC that recognizes when it is failing or has failed, or when environmental conditions have drifted outside its optimum capability range, and can communicate that to personnel.
TAG Technical Score:
 
Energy Savings: 13%
Regional Potential: 0.98 MWh/year
ID: 163
 
Increased Task, Reduced Ambient Lighting
A flexible lighting system delivers light appropriate for each task and each occupant, along with a low level of ambient lighting. This practice usually saves electricity when compared with the conventional practice of lighting the entire space sufficiently for most (but...
TAG Technical Score:
 
Energy Savings: 20%
Regional Potential: 0.34 MWh/year
ID: 219
 
Induction Lighting
Long-life fluorescent light produced by radio-frequency excitation rather than a traditional ballast.
TAG Technical Score:
 
Energy Savings: 56%
Regional Potential: 1.51 MWh/year
ID: 92
 
Integral LED Nightlight/Vacancy Sensor Control for Hotel Bathroom Lighting
Vacancy sensor control with integral LED night light and battery back-up. If the main lighting has been activated and no occupancy is detected the light is turned off and the nightlight comes on.
TAG Technical Score:
 
Energy Savings: 45%
Regional Potential: 0.01 MWh/year
ID: 116
 
Integrate Existing Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) and Energy Management Control Systems (EMCS)
Facilities utilizing both a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) as an asset management and maintenance management tool, and an energy management control system (EMCS) for obtaining real-time building performance data may benefit from utilizing some ECMS info...
TAG Technical Score:
 
Energy Savings: 5%
 
ID: 371
 
Internet-Based Refrigeration Monitoring System
Monitoring system to assess performance and energy use for medium and large cold storage units.
TAG Technical Score:
 
Energy Savings: 18%
 
ID: 346
 
LED "High-Mast" Highway Lighting
LED lighting for high mast lighting (above 100') for highway interchanges and high traffic areas.
TAG Technical Score:
 
Energy Savings: 60%
Regional Potential: 0.09 MWh/year
ID: 412
 
LED Bollards
Low post, ground-mounted walkway lighting employing LED technology.
TAG Technical Score:
 
Energy Savings: 40%
Regional Potential: 0.02 MWh/year
ID: 396
 
LED Canopy Lighting
Exterior ceiling mounted luminaire for gas station canopies.
TAG Technical Score:
 
Energy Savings: 73%
Regional Potential: 0.11 MWh/year
ID: 403
 
LED Display Case Lighting
Strip lights, usually mounted horizontally at frame edges of glass display cases.
TAG Technical Score:
 
Energy Savings: 54%
Regional Potential: 0.07 MWh/year
ID: 400
 
LED Elevator Lighting
LED lighting specifically designed for elevator applications, with particular focus on low profile form factors and durable designs to withstand vibration.
TAG Technical Score:
 
Energy Savings: 45%
Regional Potential: 0.04 MWh/year
ID: 134
 
LED High- and Low-Bay Retrofit Kits for Indoor Applications
Kits containing LED arrays, drivers, cooling technology and sometimes reflectors to maintain or improve light quality, help achieve energy savings, reduce maintenance over traditional high-pressure sodium (HPS) and metal halide (MH) lighting systems, and allow customers t...
TAG Technical Score:
 
Energy Savings: 73%
Regional Potential: 2.19 MWh/year
ID: 413
 
LED High-Bay Lighting Fixture with Built-In Daylight Dimming
An LED lighting fixture intended for commercial and industrial high-bay lighting with a built-in daylight sensor that dims light output to save 20 to 50% of the energy of full light output.
TAG Technical Score:
 
Energy Savings: 10%
Regional Potential: 0.08 MWh/year
ID: 390
 
LED Indoor Wall Wash Luminaires
Luminaires for decorative lighting and highlight, or washing walls, of interior spaces with white, colored or color- changing light.
TAG Technical Score:
 
Energy Savings: 70%
Regional Potential: 0.07 MWh/year
ID: 404
 
LED Interior High- and Low-Bay Luminaires
Pendant or surface-mounted fixtures specifically for commercial and industrial indoor high-ceiling spaces such as warehouses.
TAG Technical Score:
 
Energy Savings: 75%
Regional Potential: 1.38 MWh/year
ID: 402
 
LED Internal Street Sign Lighting
Proposed the use of internally/self illuminated with LED street wayfinding signs to make them more readable, and travel safer. LED technology is making this application more feasible than fluorescent could with energy savings of about 50% or more, and external lighting o...
TAG Technical Score:
 
Energy Savings: 50%
Regional Potential: 0.05 MWh/year
ID: 145
 
LED Outdoor Commercial Flood Lighting
Directional luminaires, sometimes referred to as spot lights or architectural lights, used to light specific outdoor areas like loading docks, signs and billboards, building facades, and walkways next to buildings.
TAG Technical Score:
 
Energy Savings: 40%
Regional Potential: 0.90 MWh/year
ID: 414
 
LED Outdoor Wall Wash Luminaires
Luminaires for decorative lighting and highlighting walls of buildings, stages, parks, plazas and commercial building facades.
TAG Technical Score:
 
Energy Savings: 50%
Regional Potential: 0.03 MWh/year
ID: 397
 
LED Parking Garage Lighting
Ceiling-mounted luminaire for parking garage applications, suitable for outdoor and other environments open to the elements.
TAG Technical Score:
 
Energy Savings: 62%
Regional Potential: 1.57 MWh/year
ID: 398
 
LED Refrigerated and Freezer Case Lighting
Strip lights mounted inside commercial refrigeration and freezer cases, typically replacing fluorescent lighting. They offer additional savings because they work well with occupancy sensors and can turn off when no one is around.
TAG Technical Score:
 
Energy Savings: 61%
Regional Potential: 0.09 MWh/year
ID: 89
 
LED Screw-in Replacement Lamps for HID Sources
LED screw-in replacement lamps employing medium and mogul bases for HID sources (primarily HPS and MH) in outdoor and commercial high bay and low bay applications.
TAG Technical Score:
 
Energy Savings: 50%
Regional Potential: 0.87 MWh/year
ID: 637
 
LED Signage Lighting-Neon Alternative
LED linear sign lighting has brightness, color and glow qualities similar to those of traditional neon sign lighting, but with longer life, better durability, no mercury and lower energy consumption.
TAG Technical Score:
 
Energy Savings: 30%
Regional Potential: 0.14 MWh/year
ID: 111
 
LED T8 Lamp Replacement
LED manufacturers are rushing to fill existing T-8 fluorescent lamp fixtures, (and T12s as well) with products that mimic the T-8 tube and simply replace it, usually by-passing the existing ballast. The technology in general has improved markedly, in particular for T-8 re...
TAG Technical Score:
 
Energy Savings: 28%
Regional Potential: 1.85 MWh/year
ID: 234
 
LEDs for Commercial Signs (Other than Linear)
LED lighting for backlit display signage, typical of restaurant menu boards, movie theater poster displays, and advertisements in airports, train/subway stations, etc.
TAG Technical Score:
 
Energy Savings: 50%
Regional Potential: 0.15 MWh/year
ID: 113
 
Light Scoops and Daylighting Sails
Reflective light scoops, "sails" or other structures adjacent to skylights and in atriums that reduce glare, control solar heat gain, and provide diffuse daylight.
TAG Technical Score:
 
 
 
ID: 515
 
Lighting Fixtures with Integrated Occupancy Sensors and Controls
Lighting fixtures with pre-installed sensors that can save time and money by streamlining installation and reducing equipment cost, improve adoption rates, and result in a cleaner-looking ceiling.
TAG Technical Score:
 
Energy Savings: 0%
 
ID: 45
 
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