
Emerging Opportunities
Innovative Solutions, Tested Outcomes, Scaled Impact.
ILLUME’s Emerging Opportunities Practice Area helps clients pursue energy solutions by identifying, evaluating, and scaling emerging technologies and innovations. Our Emerging Opportunities services span various client initiatives, including energy efficiency, demand response, grid modernization, decarbonization, and distributed energy resources. Our multidisciplinary 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.
Our Services
Emerging Technology Strategy and Design
We support you in shaping and implementing R&D and emerging technology strategies that align with your policy mandates, including energy efficiency targets, electrification, reliability, and energy affordability. From refining processes to setting measurable goals, we create actionable roadmaps and success frameworks to help you turn your visions into impactful interventions with clear returns on investments.
Applied Engineering and Building Science Research
We deliver in-depth research on emerging technologies and market dynamics to support your strategic decision-making. Our services include market analyses, barrier and catalyst identification, supply chain evaluations, and technology research. We help you estimate market potential and understand whether your investments can achieve success at scale.
Pilot Evaluation, Design, and Strategy
We support you by evaluating, designing, and conducting independent assessments of emerging technologies. This includes delivering insights on what factors drive your impacts, participant experience and usability, and market potential. Our experts ensure you have accurate and defensible evaluations that are conscious of the end user and reflective of market conditions and trends, even for technologies lacking standardized guidelines.
Technical Assistance
We provide comprehensive and embedded technical support to your team. We do this across a wide range of efforts, such as pilot design, proof of concept studies, and rigorous data testing. Our technical support spans TRMs, ASTM standards, ENERGY STAR® submissions, evaluation methods, and other technical protocols and helps to ensure you can seamlessly execute your initiatives with confidence in your results.
EXPLORE Our Work
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Conferences
ACEEE Summer Study 2024
Conferences
Let’s Connect at ACEEE in Pacific Grove, CA, August 4-9, 2024. ILLUME will have multiple team members attending and presenting at…
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White Papers
This paper summarizes the work the authors undertook to identify strategies and best practices to consider as part of an equitable…
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White Papers
This whitepaper references research done for leading utilities across the U.S., highlighting the approaches and course corrections pioneering programs incorporated to…
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Case Studies
Strategic Planning for a Decarbonized Future
Case Studies
ILLUME assists clients by offering strategic planning support to identify research, program designs, and technologies that align with utility and policy…
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Presentations
NECC: Inclusive Energy Codes
Presentations
In this talk given at the National Energy Codes Conference (NECC) 2024, Bahareh van Boekhold talks about Inclusive Energy Codes: Bridging…
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Presentations
Building Energy Codes: An Equity Framework
Presentations
Bahareh van Boekhold gave this presentation at NBI’s Getting to Zero Forum 2024. She presents on an equity framework for building…
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Case Studies
ILLUME conducted an ethnographic research study to explore the magnitude of installation challenges for heat pump water heaters (HPWHs) in cold-climate…
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Articles
ILLUME’s recent participation at the 2023 Behavior, Energy, and Climate Change (BECC) conference showcased Director Dr. Liz Kelley’s presentation on induction…
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Reports
NEEA hired ILLUME Advising to pursue two concurrent studies around water heater installers. The first was intended to focus on observational…
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Case Studies
Heat Pump and Integrated Controls Performance Review
Case Studies
Heat pumps are on the rise in the Northeast, with Massachusetts offering incentives for electrifying home heating and reducing reliance on…
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Articles
Understanding Home Decision-Making
Articles
Residential buildings account for approximately 20% of energy consumption in the U.S. To achieve local, state, and federal decarbonization and electrification…
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Articles
As new technologies and devices are rapidly introduced to the market, a demand response ecosystem is emerging that provides utilities and…
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Webinars
Why Good Ideas Fail
Webinars
Tune in to to see the Arizona Technology Council’s webinar featuring ILLUME Executive Vice President, Jes Rivas. Watch the webinar on-demand…
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Webinars
Crack the code to transform federal, state, and local policies into tangible, equitable impact during this webinar with ILLUME Directors, Dr.…
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Reports
This report presents findings from follow-up research conducted on integrated controls (ICs) used with ductless mini-split heat pumps (HPs). These dual-fuel…
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Presentations
This presentation shows that despite having advantages, induction cooking has only a small share of the residential cooking market.
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Presentations
This presentation, presented at BECC 2023, will focus on the role of integrated controls in enabling residential customers to adopt heat…
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Magazine Articles
Big Data and Small Business
Magazine Articles
Using Data-Driven Models to Reveal Energy Savings Opportunities in an Underserved Customer Segment
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White Papers
Tunnel Vision
White Papers
The Impact of Ignoring Behavior in Technological Innovation. In this white paper presented at the ACEEE Summer Study 2022 Conference, the…
Sharing Their Knowledge
Meet Our Experts
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Marilla Yaggie
Director
Marilla brings more than ten years of experience as a data scientist and engineer in the energy sector. In her role, Marilla deftly leads teams through emerging technology portfolio development and evaluation to support the next generation of energy programs, technologies, and services.
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Pace Goodman
Senior Director
Pace brings more than fifteen years of experience in the energy utility sector using data science, engineering, and applied mathematics to facilitate and strengthen demand-side management, distributed generation, and rates programs.