Middleton, MA January 5, 2024 — The Consortium for Energy Efficiency (CEE) Integrated Home Competition, a high-performance product contest, announced the launch of their 2024 Competition today. The Competition is seeking innovative entries that deliver energy savings and automated load management while meeting consumer expectations. Winning submissions gain indispensable recognition and promotion from high-profile Competition Sponsors. Enter your product by March 29, 2024 for consideration.
What You Win
The Integrated Home Competition rewards manufacturers of solutions that advance the CEE Integrated Home vision. Award winners receive credible third-party promotion and recognition through webinars, press releases to consumer and trade publications, a feature on the Integrated Home Competition website, speaking opportunities and presence at key industry events, and additional promotion by Competition Sponsors. CEE member efficiency program administrators may also recommend winning entries to their customers and contractors or consider pilot programs. All entrants receive insight and direction from an expert panel of judges on future utility needs.
Eligible Product Categories
Residential end uses covered in the 2024 Competition span electric and natural gas equipment. Eligible products include whole home energy management solutions, home appliances, plug load controls, window attachments, lighting and lighting controls, ceiling fans, and other connected home devices that deliver a positive consumer experience and provide load management capabilities. While larger loads within the home (e.g., HVAC and water heating) are not eligible for awards in 2024, the competition will pivot its focus to those products in 2025.
The Evaluation Process
Products are judged through a two-phase process: screening by the Competition Sponsors and a live assessment of the finalists by a Judging Panel comprised of individuals with expertise in usability, interoperability, IDSM program administration, product or system installation, specific technology performance, and promotion. Entries are judged against the following criteria:
For complete guidelines and information on how to enter, please visit https://www.integratedhome.org/enter-now/, watch this short video on the submission process, or contact competition@cee1.org.
About The CEE Integrated Home is a connected, fuel neutral, interactive, and efficient home where devices and systems effectively communicate to provide value to customers and utility systems. It emphasizes home solutions that can react to the dynamic energy value based on time and location, allowing utilities and program administrators to manage to their core mission of maintaining a safe, low cost, and reliable energy experience. The annual Integrated Home Competition supports this vision through public promotion of commercially available solutions that are simple, reliable, well-designed, and highly functional. Guided by a consumer-focused lens, the Competition recognizes innovative products and systems that provide an added value to homeowners’ energy experience through improved customization and personalization. It provides a platform for distinguishing innovation in service to integrated demand side management objectives, including traditional energy savings.
