Development of the Industry's First Smart Range Hood Award Number: DE-EE0007569 CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6 Building Technologies Office Date: 6/2/2016 Location(s): MD Office(s): Golden Field Office
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June 12, 2016
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Development of the Industry's First Smart Range Hood
Award Number: DE-EE0007569
CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6
Building Technologies Office
Date: 6/2/2016
Location(s): MD
Office(s): Golden Field Office
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide federal funding to Newport Partners, LLC. to develop, test, and demonstrate a Smart Range Hood that is affordable, responsive to key pollutants, consumer-friendly, quiet, effective, and efficient.
Activities associated with the proposed project would include prototype development, in-lab testing, and field testing of residential smart kitchen exhaust range hoods for actual performance in test homes. Reporting and management activities would take place at Newport’s offices in Davidsonville, MD and Loveland, CO. All prototyping and in-lab testing would be conducted at Broan-NuTone LLC manufacturing facilities in either Hartford, WI, Drummondville, QC in Canada, or Tecate, Baja California in Mexico. The facilities in which lab work would occur are purpose-built for the type of activities being proposed; therefore, no adverse impacts to sensitive resources are expected as a result of the proposed project. No change in the use, mission or operation of existing facilities would arise out of this effort. The facilities have all applicable permits in place, and would not need additional permits for the proposed activities.