Evaluation and Success Planning
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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
Measuring Broad Community Impacts In The Clean Energy Transition
White Papers
In this paper, written for ACEEE Summer Study 2024, we share promising practices around how jurisdictions can approach measuring equitable processes…
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White Papers
Code and Communities
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
Oh, You Thought Electrifying Buildings Would Be Easy?
White Papers
This white paper references research done for leading utilities across the U.S., highlighting the approaches and course corrections pioneering programs incorporated…
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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
Heat Pump Integrated Control Performance Review
Reports
This report presents findings from follow-up research conducted on integrated controls (ICs) used with ductless mini-split heat pumps (HPs) installed through…
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Presentations
Under Control: Integrated Controls to Manage Heat Pumps
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
Exploring Distributed Solar Disparities
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
Illuminating Opportunity In Uncertainty
Magazine Articles
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Magazine Articles
Looking Ahead in Uncertain Times: How Evaluation Can Help Lead the Way
Magazine Articles
As market conditions and policies change, ensuring success can be a challenge. Evaluation is an often over-looked answer.
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Magazine Articles
Show Me, Don’t Tell Me: First-Hand Experience is the Gatekeeper to Widespread EV
Magazine Articles
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Case Studies
How Market Actors Can Spur All-Electric New Home Construction
Case Studies
ILLUME investigated the market actors that have the power to influence electrifying the residential sector to better understand the barriers that…
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Case Studies
Eliminating Energy Program Participation Barriers
Case Studies
An ILLUME study reveals that homeowners are nearly 20% more likely than renters to be aware of their utility’s energy efficiency…
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Presentations
Water Heater Demand Response: Full Replacement vs After-Market Controllers
Presentations
This presentation, presented at the 2022 IEPEC conference, discusses two approaches to water heater demand response; full unit replacement and after-market…
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Articles
2020 Census: Lessons Learned and Best Practices for Researchers and Evaluators
Articles
The year 2020 was, for many of us, a year of unforeseen and unexpected challenges. Unfortunately, the U.S. decennial census also…
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Articles
The Need for Standardization in Home Energy Report Evaluations
Articles
The objective of our research was to determine if HERs are still a useful behavioral energy efficiency program and calculate the…
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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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White Papers
Addressing Multifamily Hesitance to Participation in Energy Efficiency Programs
White Papers
This paper will build from the research and experience in three northeastern states to identify barriers to participation related to housing…
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Reports
Behavioral Programs Come of Age: A Final Report
Reports
This report first describes the research methods used, then summarizes the results, and finally concludes with a brief discussion of reporting…
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Magazine Articles
Basics for Innovation
Magazine Articles
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Podcasts
How Evaluation Can Help Lead The Way In Uncertain Times
Podcasts
In this podcast Lisa LeBeau Obear and Pace Goodman reflect on major changes in the energy industry and in our world,…
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Articles
Time Well Spent: Empowering Contractors As Trusted Messengers Of Innovation
Articles
At ILLUME, we are researchers and experts on how to save energy through programs. We are also homeowners and utility customers,…