Jake Millette
Jake has evaluated and conducted research for a wide variety of energy efficiency programs in the residential, commercial, and industrial sectors. His experience evaluating utility, state, and national portfolios has provided him with a comprehensive understanding of how energy efficiency and renewable energy programs are implemented and what is needed for successful evaluations of their impacts and processes, for quantifying their benefits and costs, and for estimating their potential.
research,
evaluation,
energy efficiency,
carbon intensity,
electricity,
load management,
peak load,
demand response,
load shape
Timing is Everything
Last month’s post discussed the need for proper accounting of energy sources to accurately quantify...
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Converting Energy: Site v. Source Energy and Carbon
As our industry’s goals shift from simply using less energy to reducing carbon emissions, the...
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Did the Program Actually Cause That?
Welcome to another installment of the Challenges of Estimating NTG, where we explore the challenges...
4 minute read
Negative Savings?! That’s Not Supposed to Happen!
Sometimes in the course of evaluating energy efficiency projects, we come across projects with...
3 minute read
Are We Underestimating Cooling Savings in an Era of Climate Change?
As global average temperatures continue to rise due to climate change caused by humans, the amount...
6 minute read
How Long Will the Savings Last? Exploring Persistence and the Rebound Effect
Last month’s post focused on how to best treat future energy or carbon savings and how this...
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evaluation,
evaluation approaches,
program evaluation,
energy efficiency,
carbon emissions
Discount Rates, Carbon, and the Ministry for the Future
I recently read The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson. It’s a science fiction novel...
6 minute read
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evaluation,
evaluation approaches,
energy program,
program evaluation,
energy efficiency,
carbon emissions
Cascading Effects and Market Transformation
Like many, I was transfixed in late March by the huge container ship stuck in the Suez Canal. And...
5 minute read
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evaluation,
evaluation approaches,
energy program,
program evaluation,
energy efficiency,
double-counting
Why Evaluators Need Whiteboards: Avoiding Double-Counting in Evaluation
I love explaining things with diagrams. One thing I have really missed working from home over the...
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