Jes Rivas

As the need for demand mitigation increases, how can utilities and program administrators extend energy efficiency portfolios to increase demand impacts?
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Listen to our new podcast episode where team members from ILLUME and Encolor discuss our new strategic partnership, combining each firm’s expertise to deliver enhanced and equitable benefits to the energy industry. Learn how this collaboration aims to support our clients in providing equitable solutions and outcomes for all communities. 
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This whitepaper, written for ACEEE Summer Study. 2024,  references research done for leading utilities across the U.S. characterizing key challenges, highlighting the approaches, and course corrections pioneering programs incorporated to electrify space heating in single and multifamily customer homes.
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In this presentation—given at the Utility Energy Forum (UEF) 2024 in Cambria, California—Executive Vice President, Jes Rivas will be speaking about Building Trust and Demonstrating Value: Addressing the Human Side of the Great Deployment.
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ILLUME assists clients by offering strategic planning support to identify research, program designs, and technologies that align with utility and policy goals. Our focus is on developing equitable and scalable electrification plans within energy program portfolios.
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Tune in to to see the Arizona Technology Council’s webinar featuring ILLUME Executive Vice President, Jes Rivas. Watch the webinar on-demand and learn more about how ILLUME is supporting clients develop robust R&D pipelines that lead to market adoption of emerging technologies and programs.
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In this podcast ILLUME Executive Vice President, Jes Rivas, interviews Senior Consultant and fellow Engineer, Nabila Huq. You’ll learn about Nabila’s background in Chemical Engineering, Renewable Fuel Design, Biomedical Materials, Solar Research, and Inorganic and Organic Photovoltaics.
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In Episode 2 of Growing to Meet the Change, Anne speaks with each member of the Executive Team about their new roles, and what it means for the future of ILLUME and our clients.
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In this paper presented at the 2022 IEPEC Conference, we describe a broad market research study completed in 2020, intended to provide a snapshot of the current state of underserved businesses in one state in the southeast.
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In this white paper presented at the ACEEE Summer Study 2022 Conference, the authors explore three case studies conducted with three utilities and organizations testing emerging commercial equipment. Read how the authors present an R&D framework that creates a parallel path to technological investigation, one that focuses understanding on the social and behavioral aspects of a technology, and identifies the interventions needed to overcome barriers introduced by them.
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Demand response (DR) is continuing to grow in importance as a tool to guard against intermittency and as a strategy to address climate change. But, as our climate and grid challenges increase, can we scale DR meet these new demands?
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In this episode, ILLUME’s Jes Rivas and Amanda Maass talk about the LGBTQ experience in the workplace and share insights on what it means to show up to the workplace when your experience is different than that of those around you.
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Join ILLUME’s team of researchers as we break down a) ways to understand the challenge, b) considerations for defining equity, c) ways to bring communities to the table, and d) how to effectively determine and measure who benefits from clean energy investments.
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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.
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As we continue to think through the implications of the novel coronavirus, we need to consider how to quickly adapt our evaluation frameworks to provide meaningful results.
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Eileen Hannigan moderates a discussion on how massive shifts in energy use patterns have us rethinking everything from baselines to alternative metrics for 2020.
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Anne Dougherty discusses how massive shifts in energy use patterns have us rethinking everything from baselines to alternative metrics for 2020 with ILLUME’s technical team.
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ILLUME proposes ideas for program design innovation as the energy industry asks “what now?” when it comes to communications, programs, and research activities in this moment of social distancing.
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ILLUME facilitates a forum as clients ask questions of each other, share ideas, and create the (virtual) connections we need to move successfully through this unprecedented time.
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We navigate how the energy industry responds and adapts to COVID-19 in a preview of our webinar, “Research Considerations in the Time of COVID-19.”
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In their poster presentation at ACEEE Summer Study 2018, Jes Rivas and Pace Goodman discuss the pros, cons, and possible policy implications for expanding the use of consumption analysis in evaluation.
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Why do savings estimates change from one analysis to the next, even when evaluation methods are consistent? Jes Rivas and Pace Goodman attempt to answer this question in this report for IEPEC 2017.
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