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February 2023
Groundhog Day – Past, Present, and Future

December 2022
The Gift of Vulnerability

December 2022
2020 Census: Lessons Learned and Best Practices for Researchers and Evaluators

December 2022
The Need for Standardization in Home Energy Report Evaluations

October 2022
Enabling Emerging Technology Efforts

August 2022
How One ILLUME-ineer Mastered Her Nonlinear Career Path

June 2022
What Makes People Tick?

May 2022
Time Well Spent: Empowering Contractors as the Trusted Messengers of Innovation

April 2022
Translation or Transcreation? Tactics to Better Serve Customers with Limited-English Proficiency (LEP)

April 2022
Journey to the ILLUME-iverse

March 2022
Takeaways From the State and Utility Changemaker Huddle on IIJA Funding

March 2022
(Re)investing in Community: How Environmental Justice Communities & Tools are Reshaping Climate and Energy Investments

October 2021
A Message from the Founders on #EEday2021

September 2021
The Just Transition Comes ‘Just in Time’

August 2021
Utilities Want to Scale Fast, Cities Have their Foot on the Accelerator

August 2021
Community Offerings in the Era of Justice40

July 2021
Keeping Smart Thermostat Customers Engaged as DR Events Become More Uncomfortable

July 2021
As Post-Pandemic Customer Habits Shift, Heat Pump Water Heaters Could Make a Comeback

June 2021
What can HVAC Installers and Distributors Teach Our Industry About EV Adoption?

June 2021
Equity and Emerging Tech in the Time of the Pandemic

May 2021
Workforce Development as Economic Agency

May 2021
Why the Intersection of Health, Energy, and Equity is the New Utility Challenge

March 2021
Indoor Air Quality Technologies: Disentangling Performance from Hype

February 2021
What’s in Store for the Energy Industry in 2021?

June 2020
Stories from my Father

February 2020
Presidential Candidates’ Positions on Climate in 3D

December 2019
The Gift of Resilience

November 2019
After the climate strike, now what?

September 2019
Stand Up and be Counted

September 2019
Standing Up for Climate

September 2019
Backward

August 2019
A Murder, Your Reputation, and the Meaning of Life

May 2019
The Gift of Family-Centric Work for Mother’s Day

April 2019
Generation and Impact: A Tale of Three Cities

March 2019
How to (not) change a light bulb

March 2019
Entrepreneurs: Tapping the Culture of Energy Efficiency in Small Businesses

February 2019
Scarcity: A Conversation (heart)

January 2019
Opportunity in Disruption

December 2018
Thinking of Home for the Holidays

October 2018
Machine Learning and Ethnography: An Unlikely Pair

September 2018
Founders’ Reflections as ILLUME turns Five

August 2018
Evolution, Part 2: New Research Tools for a New Energy Market

July 2018
Evolution, Part 1: Distribution planning models for the DER age

June 2018
Diversity & Inclusion: The Secret to Energy Innovation

February 2018
Whimsey and (Energy) Wonks

November 2017
FAQs of Customer Journey Mapping

October 2017
Escape The Echo Chamber

September 2017
Growing Stronger Together After an Energy Crisis: A Humanized Energy-Scape

September 2017
Pulling the plug on the telephone game: Contemplating the risks and responsibilities of translation

July 2017
How Many Women Are Enough? Nine.

October 2015
Giving it the boot: Insulation or guilty pleasure?

February 2017
A Love Letter

February 2014
A Letter From The Chair

September 2014
A Birthday and a Better World for Us All

December 2013
Wonderland

December 2017
A Paradoxical Holiday
