Areas of Expertise

Evaluation and Success Planning

Comprehensive Studies, Meaningful Results, Actionable Recommendations.

ILLUME is a leader in the energy program evaluation field. 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. Our team of evaluators consists of social scientists, data scientists, and engineers who offer nuanced insights into the performance of your initiatives, empowering you to make high-impact decisions.

Our Services

Process Evaluation

We use embedded evaluation techniques and integrate our team with you and your implementers to inform program design and capture opportunities in real time. We help you identify the strengths of your design and delivery while providing you with the strategies you need to address any performance gaps.    

Impact Evaluation

We provide you with rigorous and defensible studies designed to accurately measure the impact of your interventions and your progress toward achieving your goals. At ILLUME, we quantify your impacts and provide you with the context you need to interpret the results, understand their implications, and plan for the future.

Program Design and Evaluability Support

We support you through the early stages of your pilots, program design, and planning. By doing so, we ensure the evaluability of your investments. Our experts help you proactively identify and address barriers to adoption, develop go-to-market refinements, and understand the experiences of your end users to ensure your investments are ready and capable of achieving market scale.

Advising and Evaluation Oversight

We work with you as a trusted advisor to review your evaluation frameworks, plans, methodologies, and results to ensure they meet best-practice standards and deliver defensible data and results. By partnering with us, you will feel confident that your evaluation efforts will stand up to scrutiny and deliver actionable results.

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Sharing Their Knowledge

Meet Our Experts

  • 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.

  • Shannon Kahl

    Director

    Shannon Kahl is a Director at ILLUME with 15 years of experience providing clean energy-related program design and analysis. She has driven numerous process and impact evaluations and market research projects for utilities and…