The Big Why of Evaluation

As global average temperatures continue to rise due to climate change caused by humans, the amount of energy used (and potentially saved) cooling...

Last month’s post focused on how to best treat future energy or carbon savings and how this decision can affect whether short-term or long-term...

I recently read The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson. It’s a science fiction novel about climate change in the near future (a.k.a. ...

Like many, I was transfixed in late March by the huge container ship stuck in the Suez Canal. And also, like many, I enjoyed the many versions of...

I love explaining things with diagrams. One thing I have really missed working from home over the past year is not being able to illustrate ideas...

Welcome back to the Challenges of Estimating NTG, where we explore the challenges of assigning a numeric counterfactual value to a complex...

It’s January and after a somewhat eventful 2020, flipping the calendar to a new year seems extra meaningful. Because many people set New Year’s...

I am a big fan of the Boston Celtics and their coach, Brad Stevens. How does this relate to sampling error in cost-effectiveness testing? Read on...

In addition to understanding energy efficiency, evaluators also search for efficiencies in cost and time. Due to schedule and budget constraints,...

One of the most difficult jobs that evaluators have is estimating attribution of savings to energy efficiency programs. Trying to put a numeric...