Seven Years Since SERP: Successes and Setbacks in Technology Procurement
This paper describes lessons learned from 4 completed and 2 ongoing technology procurement projects PNNL has conducted for DOE's Emerging Technology program. The past seven years have seen a variety of projects designed to aggregate markets for highly efficient products and to induce manufacturers to respond with improved technology. In addition to the Super Efficient Refrigerator Program (SERP), which initiated sales in 1994, a Consortium for Energy Efficiency-led apartment-size refrigerator program and DOE-led procurements of high-efficiency clothes washers, sub-compact fluorescent lamps, recessed downlight fluorescent fixtures and commercial packaged air conditioners all form a rich body of experience from which to extract lessons for similar procurements in the future. How can one identify promising candidate products? What factors induce manufacturers to respond aggressively? Do responsive manufacturers have identifiable characteristics? Are guaranteed sales or exclusive vendors election essential? What partners and promotion activities are essential for success? How much time is involved at each stage? What about product testing and validation of performance claims? This paper addresses these and other questions, drawing on DOE's, PNNL's, and other organizations' experience designing, conducting and evaluating technology procurements since the time of the SERP project.
- Research Organization:
- Pacific Northwest National Lab., Richland, WA (US)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- US Department of Energy (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-76RL01830
- OSTI ID:
- 15011122
- Report Number(s):
- PNNL-SA-36393; BT0303000; TRN: US200503%%683
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 2002 American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings. Part 6--Market transformation energy efficiency in buildings; teaming for efficiency, Conference location not supplied, Conference dates not supplied; Other Information: PBD: 30 Aug 2002
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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