NEEP ended its regional Premium Efficient Motors Initiative at the end of 2006 after a successful eight year run because. Initiative Sponsors have largely achieved initial market transformation objectives through joint and coordinated regional activities. In ending our role in this successful regional initiative, NEEP wants to thank and recognize the accomplishments of our regional Initiative Sponsors. They deserve huge credit for their foresight and commitment to transform the market for premium efficiency motors, and their willingness to work collaboratively to achieve together what they could not have achieved individually.

We offer our sincere thanks and appreciation to National Grid in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Hampshire; NYSERDA; Long Island Power Authority, the New Jersey Clean Energy Program, Connecticut Light and Power, United Illuminating, NSTAR, Western Massachusetts Electric Company, Cape Light Compact, Unitil, Public Service of New Hampshire, Efficiency Vermont and Efficiency Maine. We also deeply appreciate the efforts of CEE who provided a very productive national model, to the motor industry for their good-faith collaboration and to the U.S. DOE and EPA for their program support over the past seven years. Although NEEP has ended the regional Motors Initiative we will continue to pursue updated motor efficiency standards through our Northeast Minimum Efficiency Appliance Standards Project. We will also follow developments and recommend opportunities for savings in motors and driven processes. At least one session of NEEP’s 2007 Commercial and Industrial (C&I) Information Exchange will focus on this.

The MotorUp web site, motoruponline.com, will remain in place for
2007, but only as a referral to sponsors. Customers and vendors will
find names, and addresses of utility and program representatives to
call in their territory. After 2007 the web site will be discontinued.

For more information about the history of the Motors Initiative, please read the article published in the Fourth Quarter 2006 edition of NEEP Notes.