July 2021
Keeping Smart Thermostat Customers Engaged as DR Events Become More Uncomfortable
July 2021
As companies turn to hybrid modes of work, how will utilities manage demand if homes are never in “away” mode? In our latest blog, ILLUME Principal, Eileen Hannigan shares how heat pump water heaters could make a comeback as post-pandemic customer habits shift.
July 2021
As Post-Pandemic Customer Habits Shift, Heat Pump Water Heaters Could make a Comeback
July 2021
In this month’s case study we explore ways that utilities can turn to heat pump water heaters (HPWHs) in search of deeper savings and expanded opportunities to leverage DR to support the grid during peak usage.
June 2021
ILLUME Advising is looking for a team member to serve as our People Champion. By championing our company wide DEI initiatives, spearheading our talent acquisition, and professional development efforts, the People Champion will help us live our value of taking good care of our team, supporting employee engagement and wellness, and cheer at work.
June 2021
ILLUME Director Pace Goodman speaks with Marketplace’s Scott Tong about demand response and why research is so important to communicating with customers who participate in smart thermostat programs that ask them to sacrifice for the good of the grid.
June 2021
ILLUME Senior Consultant, Joe Kramer joins a panel of distinguished experts to discuss the role of anaerobic digestion as an alternative to landfilling during the webinar, “Diverting Food Waste from Landfills: US EPA’s New Technical Education & Analysis for Community Hauling and Anaerobic Digesters”.
June 2021
What can HVAC Installers and Distributors Teach our Industry about EV Adoption?
June 2021
What can HVAC Installers and Distributors Teach Our Industry About EV Adoption?
June 2021
What is the upside to replacing your trusted dial thermostat when the alternative is a complicated piece of digital equipment that even most of us in the industry have a hard time programming? Creating sexier, more compelling technologies cannot do it alone. To make sweeping change we need to work from the inside out, starting with a better understanding of ourselves.
June 2021
Equity and Emerging Tech in the Time of the Pandemic
June 2021
Equity and Emerging Tech in the Time of the Pandemic
May 2021
Reorienting toward equity, utilities are seeking ways to remedy disparities through income eligible (IE) offerings. Learn how we helped a Midwest utility client determine the level of energy savings necessary to reduce an income-eligible customer’s energy burden.
May 2021
How can organizations create cultures that enable employees to bring their full selves to the workplace? Listen to this podcast as we learn to think critically about how discussions that focus on race and gender are good for us, and can help us be better colleagues, and do better work.
May 2021
Join ILLUME’s Dr. Alex Dunn as she moderates, “Finding our way to Environmental Justice: Getting to a standardized definition for disadvantaged communities” at this year’s Efficiency Exchange Conference. Date: Wednesday, May 26. Time: 2:15-3:30p.
May 2021
Climate change and social and environmental injustice is inspiring all of us to become better energy citizens. But is our industry ready to take on the difficult work of centering communities?
May 2021
Workforce Development as Economic Agency
May 2021
What workforce barriers do marginalized communities face when contributing to a clean energy future? In this week’s blog, ILLUME Principal, Eileen Hannigan explains why workforce development is not just about energy jobs, but energy agency.
May 2021
ILLUME is looking for a leader, driven to help us expand on our core mission: equitably transform the energy industry to the benefit of all communities through incisive research. If you are passionate about equity, and interested in helping the clean energy industry transform through empathic research and rigorous data science, this job is for you.
May 2021
In this new era of energy equity, utilities and program administrators have a generational opportunity to adopt a holistic approach that takes on energy affordability as a symptom of a larger condition.
May 2021
Why the Intersection of Health, Energy, and Equity is the New Utility Challenge
April 2021
Join ILLUME Vice President, Laura Schauer and Senior Managing Consultant, Pace Goodman as they facilitate this session on Innovations in EM&V as part of AESP’s Spring Training Series.
April 2021
As a leader in the utility research space, ILLUME’s Laura Schauer is one of the expert voices featured in this white paper for Harvard Business Review Analytic Services, “Improving the Customer Experience in the Utilities Industry.”
April 2021
What happens when we reject monolithic thinking, and listen to customers’ lived experiences to find out what matters most to them? Read more in our case study of nonparticipation in Massachusetts.
