Promoting effective deployment of energy efficiency and demand flexibility
Program Design, Implementation, & Evaluation
We study and support programmatic efforts to deploy efficiency and demand flexibility, providing analysis and drawing lessons to inform policymakers, program administrators, and other stakeholders.
In many states, energy planning requirements and energy policy goals require or motivate utilities, government agencies, and consumers to evaluate and invest in demand-side energy efficiency, demand management, and distributed energy resources.
EMP tracks and analyzes trends in utility customer-funded energy efficiency , demand management, and distributed energy resource programs and provides technical and policy support to regional authorities, state regulatory commissions, and program administrators. We analyze current practices and projected future program spending and savings, and develop tools to help program administrators report spending and program impacts. EMP also assesses energy service company (ESCO) industry performance and market trends and manages the largest database of ESCO projects in the world: eProject Builder, a secure web-based data standardization, tracking and reporting system.
Selected Projects
- Utility Customer-Funded Programs
- What it Costs to Save Energy
- Determining Program Impacts (EM&V)
- U.S. ESCO Industry Research
