March 20, 2014: NREL Aims to Improve Building Energy Performance with Web-Based Tool
Performance Data Provides Apples-to-Apples Comparisons of Products
GOLDEN, Colo. — The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has developed a web-based tool to help commercial building engineers and designers better understand the energy performance of building-related products, including HVAC. The Technology Performance Exchange™ (TPEx™) is a portal designed to help manufacturers and organizations that measure and test products easily share performance data.
“Many organizations refrain from moving forward with the procurement of energy efficient and renewable energy solutions because they don’t have access to the performance data needed to evaluate and compare high impact technologies against organizational and energy performance criteria,” said Daniel Studer, TPEx project manager for NREL’s Commercial Buildings Research Group. TPEx provides a way “to exchange the information necessary to move these projects to the implementation stage.”