Blog
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
