Variable capacity heat pump program development roadmap

This roadmap effort is a continuum of Northwest Energy Efficiency Technology Roadmap pursued by Bonneville Power Administration with the engagement of twenty collaborating organizations. Purpose of this roadmap is to explore adoption barriers and drivers associated with diffusion of variable capacity heat pump technology, and facilitate a regional consortium towards developing an energy efficiency program in the case of Northwest U.S. Adoption barriers have been observed to group under the names; contractor, designer and owner related unfamiliarity; difficulty in measure development and incentive programs, lack of information in savings and measure cost effectiveness, conflicting incentives and codes/standards. Policy tools and necessary action items have been developed to address specified issues by considering relevant regional efforts in attempt to prevent duplicating the efforts already underway elsewhere.