Studies evaluating incentive programs for residential energy efficiency are examined to assess the roles of the size and type of incentive and of nonfinancial aspects of the programs and to infer lessons for policy. Larger incentives are found to increase participation, but marketing and...

Electric utility demand-side management (DSM) programs affect the efficiency and timing of customer electricity use. As the number and cost of these programs increase, evaluations will become increasingly important. A key challenge is the role of evaluation in determining the amount of financial...

During this period of reductions in government social programs, there is great value in developing program evaluation methods that are low cost and timely. This article explores the use of past evaluation data to develop statistical models useful in predicting future program performance. Model...

Because energy conservation programs are generally voluntary, participating households are different from nonparticipants in important, energy-related ways. This self-selection bias complicates efforts to estimate energy savings due to these programs. This article discusses several methods for...

This article discusses the results of 2 alternative approaches for estimating the energy- savings impact of Department of Energy (DOE) conservation programs. The first approach analyzed program-by-program estimates that indicated DOEprograms reduced U. S. energy use by more than 0.5 quadrillion...

Evaluation of energy-efficiency programs has come of age. Substantial progress has been made during the past decade in the development of methods to measure the cost and performance of such programs. These developments inlcude: use of quasi-experimental designs; use of fuel- consumption data to...

This evaluation focuses on the energy-saving effects of the Minnesota Northern States Power (NSP) Utility Residential Energy Conservation Programs, one and two years after participation. The study involved collection of a large data base of monthly natural gas consumption records for program...

Evaluation efforts of utilities with active home energy audit programs were reviewed to provide insights into the operations and effectiveness of existing utility home energy audit programs. About half the utilities contacted had little or no evaluation activity. Of those with evaluation...

The Minnesota Energy Agency and the Department of Administration sponsored workshops for boiler operators in 1979. The workshops, attended by engineers from state-owned facilities and from private buisnesses, dealt with improvements to fuel/air ratios for large gas and oil-fired boilers.

The number, scope, effects, and costs of electric-utility demand-side management (DSM) programs are growing rapidly in the United States. Utilities, their regulators, and energy policy makers need reliable information on the costs and performance of these programs to make informed decisions. In...