Accelerating affordable building energy efficiency solutions

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ORNL developed the software framework and controls for the Southeast’s first Southern Company Smart Neighborhood.
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ORNL building technologies scientists have been instrumental in the research, development and deployment of heat pump water heaters for use in residential applications.
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Buildings researchers demonstrated advanced technologies that reduced, by greater than 50 percent, the 1993 National Appliance Energy Conservation Act standard energy consumption for a 20 ft. top-mount, automatic defrost, refrigerator/freezer.
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