About illume
Advancing energy solutions
that put people first.
ILLUME is a research and strategy consultancy specializing in people-centered consulting to advance, re-envision, and transform the power sector. We partner with changemakers in the energy sector to develop policies, programs, and services capable of achieving your climate, energy, and resiliency goals.
Working closely with you throughout the entirety of your initiatives, we provide innovative solutions that utilize ILLUME’s multidisciplinary expertise and practical know-how. We know that your success is critical to ensuring that our economy, our businesses, our communities, and our families thrive.
A Holistic Approach
ILLUME’s difference lies in our unique ability to combine technical rigor with people-centered insights to deliver solutions that are both actionable and scalable. While many energy consultancies focus narrowly on specific services or technologies, we take a holistic approach that integrates multiple fields of expertise. By offering you customized consulting with energy experts, we address the opportunities and challenges that are unique to your market, organization, and investments.
ILLUME goes beyond identifying problems: we co-create transformative strategies that optimize grid performance, advance your energy goals, and resonate with your customers. By balancing innovation, impact, and inclusivity, we serve as a trusted partner, helping you navigate the evolving energy landscape with confidence.
Areas of Expertise
Human Insights
We combine thoughtful research and strategic solutions to help you uncover the nuances of human behavior, culture, and market dynamics. Our collaborative approach and attention to storytelling ensure you have actionable insights that will foster empathy with your customers, influence markets, and create impact.
Affordability, Access, & Resiliency
We are dedicated to advancing impactful policies and solutions that foster inclusion, accessibility, and resilience in our energy systems. Our consulting services integrate comprehensive and rigorous qualitative and quantitative analyses with community-centered practices to ensure that your programs, services, regulatory priorities, and policies achieve measurable success.
Emerging Opportunities
We help our clients pursue energy solutions by identifying, evaluating, and scaling emerging technologies and innovations. Our team provides end-to-end support, integrating technical expertise with human-centered approaches to ensure our solutions address reliability, affordability, workforce development, and supply chain considerations.
Evaluation & Success Planning
We ground our work in a deep understanding of evaluation fundamentals while remaining nimble to account for changing program needs and approaches. We create tailored evaluation studies and frameworks to address your specific policy and program objectives.
Built Just For You
Custom Studies
We collaborate with you to address new opportunities and challenges implicit in energy transitions. ILLUME’s bench of diverse thinkers and problem-solvers will help you develop new methods to understand and solve your problems so you can create truly tailored solutions for your organization, constituents, stakeholders, and customers.