• Market Assessment of NYSERDA New York Energy $martSM New Construction Program

    Similar to other NYSERDA program offerings, the New York Energy $martSM New Construction Program (NCP) is designed to have both resource acquisition and market transformation elements. Thus, in addition to conducting measurement and verification of basic program achievements (i.e., kWh and kW reductions), program evaluation efforts must also include theory-driven designs that identify and assess broader market effects that result from program interventions. Read more

  • Impact Evaluation of Southern California Edison’s (SCE) Innovative Designs for Energy Efficiency Activities (IDEEA) Program

    Southern California Edison’s (SCE) Innovative Designs for Energy Efficiency Activities (IDEEA) is responsible for providing support to third-party program implementers seeking to develop innovative applications of new and existing technologies in a broad range of markets. Commercial Programs included installing low speed / high volume agricultural ventilation systems, improvements to oil well pumping efficiency, installing dimmable lighting controls through wireless dispatch, a standard performance contract initiative targeting community colleges, improving lamp efficiency of large outdoor advertising signs, and installing advanced refrigeration controls at small convenience stores. Read more

  • Process and Impact Evaluation of Residential and Business Sector DSM Programs, Arizona Public Service Company

    Summit Blue is currently conducting a multi-year integrated impact and process evaluation of three residential and six business sector energy efficiency programs for APS. The project involves establishing integrated data collection systems, market research into customer response to the programs, process analysis of program delivery systems, in-depth field data collection on efficiency measure performance, detailed analysis of demand and energy savings, assessment of program attribution and analysis of program cost-effectiveness. Read more

  • Process and Impact Evaluation of California’s Flex Alert Campaign

    The California Public Utilities Commission required a process and impact evaluation of the 2006-2008 Flex Your Power Now campaign (now known as the Flex Alert campaign), an education and outreach program that uses a mass media implementation strategy to educate Californians about peak demand and encourage them to voluntarily take specific actions to reduce their electricity use on designated “Flex Alert” days. Evaluating changes in behavior and program effectiveness in a traditional program with known participants is challenging; evaluating the Flex Alert campaign required examining voluntary behavior changes and issue awareness resulting from a mass media campaign that may have reached tens of millions of potential “participants”. Read more