Metrics & Evaluation
Informing and advancing an equitable energy system for all
Metrics & Evaluation
We develop frameworks for administrators, outlining key considerations and challenges in designing metrics to align programs and policies with equity goals.
Energy equity metrics and evaluation frameworks are not widely adopted or harmonized across the U.S. EMP’s database of energy equity actions includes equity indicators and metrics that states are currently mandating, developing, or tracking. Building from this baseline understanding of current practice, EMP is supporting equity metrics and frameworks for specific jurisdictions and utility processes. We are also working to create a standardized approach – for setting equity goals, identifying metrics, and collecting data – that can be applied to a variety of utility planning processes across the country.
Selected Projects
- DEA project - coming soon
- PSE TA - coming soon
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Recent Publications
Forrester, Sydney, and Andrew Satchwell."Developing an Equity Framework for State Regulatory Decision-Making."
(2023).
Elmallah, Salma, Tony G Reames, and C Anna Spurlock."Frontlining energy justice: Visioning principles for energy transitions from community-based organizations in the United States."Energy Research & Social Science
94 (2022). DOI
Spurlock, C Anna, Salma Elmallah, and Tony Reames."Equitable deep decarbonization: A framework to facilitate energy justice-based multidisciplinary modeling."Energy Research & Social Science
92 (2022) 102808. DOI
Paulos, Bentham, Sydney Forrester, Eric O'Shaughnessy, Christopher Dyson, Galen L Barbose, and Ryan H Wiser."An Assessment of Evaluation Practices of Low- And Moderate-Income Solar Programs."
(2021).
Lazar, Alina, Ling Jin, C Anna Spurlock, Kesheng Wu, Alex Sim, and Annika Todd-Blick."Evaluating the Effects of Missing Values and Mixed Data Types on Social Sequence Clustering Using t-SNE Visualization."Journal of Data and Information Quality
11.2 (2019) 1 - 22. DOI
Lazar, Alina, Ling Jin, C Anna Spurlock, Annika Todd-Blick, Kesheng Wu, and Alex Sim."Data quality challenges with missing values and mixed types in joint sequence analysis."2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data)2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data)
(2017). DOI
Cohen, Samuel D, and Charles A Goldman."Measured Energy Savings and Economics of Low-Income Weatherization Progress."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings
(1992).
