Regulatory Support
We help you navigate your regulatory environment by advising on strategy and stakeholder relations; drafting TRM measures and supporting work papers; preparing regulatory annual plans and testimony; and providing technical assistance.
Program Design
Relying on our background in product design and program evaluation, we help you get more for your program dollar. We help program managers and implementers understand and improve their program’s effectiveness at translating dollars spent into net savings, encouraging participants to make additional efficiency improvements on their own, and improving net savings predictions.
Awareness & Education
We conduct research to understand the existing situation. We develop and deliver targeted educational material to build awareness across the target population, including school children, community leaders, industry leaders, social organizations, and potential trade allies. The material can range from training courses to podcasts, community conversations to educational displays with links in retail settings, and…
Process Evaluation
We start each evaluation by developing a full understanding of the program design, challenges, and goals. Interviews and surveys are the backbone of our evaluation. We offer other data collection methods too, such as ride-alongs and on-site visits. We may also conduct secondary research and benchmarking studies. Asking the right questions is key, but is…
Savings Attribution
Savings attribution helps you understand how much of your savings is attributable to the program itself, and how much was market-driven and likely to have occurred anyway. This understanding is essential for publicly owned utilities (POUs) and tribal utility authorities (TUAs) to let you target program spending to deliver top value to stakeholders. Similar in…
Net-to-Gross Evaluation
We interview and survey participants and partners of residential, commercial, and industrial programs to quantify free ridership and spillover following your state’s TRM, or, when none are prescribed, the most appropriate of recognized methods. We deliver the data, but also offer explanations for the free ridership and spillover findings, and suggest steps to reduce to…
Impact Evaluation
We measure the impacts of energy efficiency and demand response programs targeting all types of customers – small, mid-sized and large commercial and public building owner/operators, multi-unit apartments, and single-family dwellings for electric and gas utilities. We advise program managers on steps to improve their program delivery and impact measurement
Grid Modernization
We help you ensure your distribution grid pilots and programs produce robust results that withstand scrutiny by regulators and stakeholders. We help you assess competing solutions offered by different vendors under field conditions and advise on pilot design to yield evaluable results. We monitor and evaluate multiple benefit streams and communicate robust results to regulators…
Pilot Program Support
We support you during the design, implementation and evaluation phases of your pilot – advising you on the design and determining optimal size, scope, and duration. Once under way, we collect and analyze the data and keep you apprised of progress. Finally, we help you draw actionable conclusions, scale the results, and report to regulators…
Evaluability Assessment
We work with you to determine the data you will need to conduct rigorous impact and net-to-gross or attribution evaluations that meet regulatory requirements. This process may involve reviewing program theory, identifying performance metrics, and determining data needed to support impact analysis.