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Program Design

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Our experts have assisted numerous utilities and program administrators in designing and planning energy-efficiency and demand-response programs throughout North America. Our best practice program designs have resulted in design enhancements that substantially increased the productivity and cost effectiveness of programs. We have, for example, performed multi-year, multi-million dollar market and technology assessment activities that have led to the design and planning of successful residential and commercial sector programs and assisted in the design of industrial customer programs. You can see at our site energy-efficiency best practices, to see how we established a comprehensive structure for assessing and communicating best practices to help meets todays complex program design challenges.

Impact and Market Effects Evaluation

admin — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:59:07 +0000

QC’s comprehensive impact evaluations provide our clients with accurate, timely estimates of energy (kWh and therms) and demand (kW) savings associated with their energy-efficiency and demand response programs. Our staff has evaluated hundreds of energy-efficiency and demand-response programs within California, the Northwest, New England, Florida, Hawaii, and beyond. Our measurements are widely recognized as being valid and valuable. Many of QC’s impact evaluations for our California clients were required as part of their Annual Earnings Assessment Proceedings (AEAP), and their earning mechanism was based entirely on the results of these studies. QC’s findings were closely scrutinized by contractors that were hired by the California Public Utility Commissions Office of Ratepayer Advocates and found to be of the highest quality in California.

Process Evaluation

Our process evaluations help refine program delivery procedures and make them more effective and efficient. Clients use our process evaluation results to reduce the cost of fielding new and existing products and services; to redesign internal processes, increasing staff productivity and job satisfaction; and most importantly, to increase customer satisfaction and market penetration.

Consultant

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Quantum Consulting’s expertise with commercial, industrial and residential energy-efficiency (EE) and demand-response (DR) programs allows us to create successful, cost-effective programs for clients. Our high quality consulting services are recognized as effective, efficient and trustworthy. Our consulting services have consistently withstood extensive review.

Two of our core competencies at QC are program evaluation and program design. Since our inception, we have provided energy utilities, government agencies, and program administrators across the U.S. with valued impact, process, and market evaluations to improve their programs effectiveness. Our approach to accurate evaluation and design reflects our experience that enhancing program performance and success requires identifying and executing best practices as well as understanding of the environments in which customers make energy related decisions.

Quantum Consulting’s impact, market, and process evaluations provide decision-makers with accurate estimates of energy and demand savings, market effects, and process improvements associated with their energy-efficiency and demand-response programs. Our methods and results have consistently passed muster under exacting regulatory and stakeholder reviews.

We have developed a distinguished approach to program design. Our best practices program designs cover all program areas and customer sectors. From low-income residential to large industrial customer programs, we provide expert approaches for making your program succeed: program management, reporting, and tracking, quality control and verification, participation processes and requirements, incentive strategies, and evaluation. Please visit our best practices Web site to learn more about our energy-efficiency program design approach, www.eebestpractices.com.

Quantum Consulting is expert at completing comprehensive, market assessments and characterizations. As with our program evaluations, these studies utilize our in-depth understanding of customers decision-making process and our knowledge of the markets in which energy decisions are made.

We have conducted numerous market potential and strategic planning studies for our clients that have set a high standard for rigor, transparency, and defensibility. These studies allow our clients to assess future growth, market priorities, as well as potential energy-efficiency and environmental impacts.

Our proven engineering services are founded on QC’s talented engineering staff. Our engineers knowledge of the mechanical and thermodynamic properties of energy efficient technologies, and how customers use these technologies, is used to achieve our clients’ program goals. Quantum Consulting’s engineering simulation models and data analyses yield insights that we incorporate into our recommendations to our clients on energy usage patterns and energy-efficient technologies.