
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.
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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Presentations
NEUAC: ILSFA Small Residential Barriers
Presentations
Mallika Jayaraman, and co-presenters from Elevate and Illinois Power Agency (IPA), presented Removing Barriers to Residential Solar: Illinois Solar for All…
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Presentations
EFX24: Ramping Up Residential
Presentations
In this presentation given at the Efficiency Exchange 2024 (EFX24) Conference, Mallika talks about using human insights to enhance residential program…
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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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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, presented at BECC 2023, will focus on the role of integrated controls in enabling residential customers to adopt heat…
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Articles
We are living in a moment of transition as people are interacting with the grid, their utilities, and their energy use…
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Magazine Articles
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Case Studies
Testing the Efficacy of Home Energy Reports
Case Studies
Drawing on statistical methods from biomedical research, ILLUME applied meta-analysis techniques to measure savings from home energy report (HER) programs to…
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Reports
In this evaluation of the Solar on Multifamily Affordable Housing (SOMAH) Program for San Diego Gas and Electric (SDG&E) ILLUME took…
Sharing Their Knowledge
Meet Our Experts
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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.
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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…