We deliver comprehensive evaluation services that help clients understand how their energy programs perform across all sectors and program types. Our team conducts process, impact, and market transformation evaluations to assess effectiveness, identify opportunities for improvement, and measure lasting change. Whether it's a single initiative or an integrated portfolio, we tailor our evaluation approach to provide actionable insights that support regulatory compliance, strategic planning, and continuous improvement.

Our innovative approach to impact evaluation combines best-in-class statistical modeling, rigorous engineering analysis, and deep expertise in energy systems to deliver precise, tailored assessments. We quantify the economic and climate impacts of programs and policies, translating technical results into meaningful metrics, such as cost-effectiveness, emissions reductions, and grid benefits. By aligning our methods with evolving regulatory requirements and client priorities, we help stakeholders understand the broader value of their energy investments.

We collaborate closely with clients to ensure programs are thoughtfully designed to support broader portfolio goals while addressing key implementation challenges. By combining deep expertise in program design with robust potential analysis across diverse service territories, we provide insights into both current performance and future opportunity. Our work helps identify achievable savings, optimize resource allocation, and inform long-term planning, ensuring programs are positioned for maximum impact and scalability.

Evaluating the employment and economic benefits of energy programs, including job creation and community development.

We deliver unmatched expertise in social science methodologies, survey design, qualitative inquiry, data collection, and geographic analysis to evaluate customer behavior, decision-making, and market dynamics. Our assessments provide a clear understanding of how programs and measures perform across different regions and market segments. These insights help clients track trends, identify barriers, and design more effective, equitable, and impactful programs.

We explore what drives customers and market actors to adopt energy efficiency, demand response, electrification, and clean transportation technologies. Our work identifies barriers and opportunities for market development, delivers actionable insights into adoption patterns across diverse customer segments, and tracks how these markets evolve over time. These efforts inform strategies to accelerate adoption and support long-term market transformation.

We deliver rigorous, forward-looking analyses that capture the full value of electrification, energy efficiency, and demand response strategies. Our innovative frameworks account for interconnected value streams, spanning both energy and non-energy impacts, enabling clients to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of integrated interventions. These approaches support smarter investments and more holistic decision-making in an evolving energy landscape.

We provide expert guidance to shape policies and strategies that drive sustainable market transformation. Through deep collaboration with diverse stakeholders, including regulators, utilities, and industry leaders, we help align policy frameworks with market needs, ensuring effective implementation of energy initiatives. Our approach fosters dialogue, builds consensus, and navigates complex regulatory landscapes to create actionable, impactful solutions that support long-term energy goals.

We assist clients in optimizing efficiency, DER, transportation and electrification strategies tailored to their unique market and grid conditions, ensuring the achievement of targets and goals while maintaining a safe, reliable, and sustainable energy grid. Recognizing that emissions impacts vary by strategy, location, timing, and energy supply mix, we use advanced modeling to assess both grid and emissions outcomes. This allows us to account for increasing electric loads and the growth of distributed energy resources, addressing potential challenges and ensuring a balanced, resilient grid for the future.

We guide utilities in understanding how innovative rate structures and pricing models intersect with existing energy efficiency and demand response programs. Our expertise helps utilities optimize the integration of retail pricing with distributed energy resources (DERs) like smart thermostats, home energy storage, and electric vehicles. This strategic pairing enables utilities to address grid challenges, enhance customer engagement, and drive more efficient energy use across the system.

We support the development and deployment of electric vehicle infrastructure, ensuring a seamless integration into the broader energy system. By analyzing market conditions, grid capacity, and regional needs, we help stakeholders design effective strategies for EV charging networks and supporting infrastructure. Our approach balances the growing demand for EVs with grid reliability, exploring opportunities to optimize charging infrastructure, enhance grid flexibility, and accelerate EV adoption to drive sustainable transportation solutions.