Efficient Pumps

At a Glance

Category

proven

Status

active

Fuel type

electric

Sector

agricultural, commercial, industrial

Applications

pumps

Sunset date

Apr 30, 2026

The Efficient Pumps measure addresses energy savings and incremental costs of efficient pumps that are within the scope of the DOE’s federal standard for pumps, which went into effect in 2020. The scope includes certain clean water pumps ranging from 1HP to 200 HP shaft input power. The performance metric for the standard, Pump Energy Index (PEI), is used as the indicator of efficiency. The measure includes applications for constant speed and variable speed pump systems. There are separate measure applications for the following sectors: commercial, industrial, agriculture, and municipal (water supply).

Several parameters used in the savings analysis are informed by research on the performance of installed pumps conducted by the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) in 2019. Current practice estimates were updated in 2023 to reflect recent sales data collected by NEEA in their Extended Motor Products program and the distribution of pump efficiencies in the DOE Compliance Certification database.

This measure addresses savings only from the use of more efficient pumps. For applications that include variable speed control where variable speed control is not required by code, additional savings from this more efficient control type are addressed in the RTF’s Variable Speed Drives UES measure for smaller pumps (up to 20 HP) and would need to be addressed as a custom measure for larger pump sizes.

Workbook

Latest Version

Efficient Pumps v4.1

Efficient Pumps v4.1

Approved at April 2023 RTF meeting. QA complete. Updated cost effectiveness using procost version 5.08

Date

Jun 14, 2023

Version number

4.1

Past Versions

version	date	document
4.0	Apr 18, 2023	Efficient Pumps v4.0 Approved at April 2023 RTF meeting. Undergoing QA/QC
3.0	Apr 18, 2022	Efficient Pumps v3.0 Updated with 2021 Plan cost effectiveness methodology
2.2	Sep 27, 2021	Efficient Pumps v2.2 Reran through ProCost 3.1.05 to correct for minor error
2.1	Jun 26, 2020	Efficient Pumps v2.1 QC complete.
2.0	Apr 21, 2020	Efficient Pumps v2.0 Adopted at the April 2020 RTF Meeting. Currently undergoing QC.
1.1	Jun 14, 2017	Commercial/Industrial/Agricultural Pumps v1.1 QC review complete.
1.0	Dec 19, 2016	ComIndAgPumps_1_0.xlsm Original savings workbook. Adopted at the December 6, 2016 RTF meeting. Currently undergoing QC.

Decisions

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Latest decision

Decision details

Decided

April 18, 2023

Approve Measure Updates

Decision Details

-Keep the Status as Active
-Keep theCategory as Proven
-Set the Sunset Date to April 30, 2026

Decided

April 21, 2020

Approved Measure Changes

Decision Details

Approve updates to the Efficient Pumps USE measure as presented, including: keep ER metric in the measure identifiers, keep eligibility at 200 HP motors and less, direct CAT to update savings shapes to reflect shapes observed in research, keep the status as Active, Change the Category to Proven, set the sunset date to April 30, 2023.

Decided

December 17, 2019

Extend Sunset Date

Decision Details

Extend the sunset date for the following measures to June 2020:

Efficient Pumps UES
New Homes Standard Protocol
Multifamily Weatherization UES
School Weatherization UES

Decided

December 06, 2016

Approve New Measure

Decision Details

Approve the measure specifications, savings, costs, lifetime, and research strategy for the UES Measure: New Efficient Commercial and Industrial Pumps

Set the Category to “Planning”
Set the Status to “Active”
Set the sunset date to December 31, 2019

Decided

March 15, 2016

Allocate resources to measure development

Decision Details

Allocate resource to further scoping a web-enabled thermostat measure/impact evaluation guidance in parallel with residential behavior work. Allocate resource to participate in efficient pump system measure scoping discussions, and bring proposal to subcommittee when ready.

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Subcommittees

Efficient Pumps v4.1

Approve Measure Updates

Approved Measure Changes

Extend Sunset Date

Approve New Measure

Allocate resources to measure development