Conferences & Papers

Two NMR staff will present at the ACEEE Summer Study in Pacific Grove, CA in August, 2008.

Lynn Hoefgen will present: “Market Effects: Claim Them Now or Forever Hold Your Peace.”

Betty Tolkin will present: “How Much More Does It Cost to Build an ENERGY STAR Home? The Incremental Cost Estimation Process.”


Two NMR staff presented two NMR projects at the Annual Meeting of the American Evaluation Association in Baltimore on November 12, 2007.

Tim Pettit presented: “Is Our Children Learning: Barriers to K-12 Energy Efficiency Education Programs.”

Greg Clendenning presented: “If You Offer it, Will They Buy It? Differentiating the Program from the Market in a Voluntary Clean Energy Purchasing Program.”


Five NMR staff presented papers at the International Energy Program Evaluation Conference in 2007.

Betty Tolkin presented, "ENERGY STAR® Homes and Green Building Programs: Can We Have a Successful Partnership?"

Susan Oman presented, "Blinded by the Light: Why Are We in the Dark about How Many CFLs are Out There?"

Tom Mauldin presented, "Seeing There without Being There: Using the Internet to Assess Appliance Availability in Retail Stores."

Greg Clendenning presented, "How Much Is That CFL in the Window? I Do Hope It Is on Sale: Examining Price Differentials between CFL and Incandescent Light Bulbs" and a poster, "It’s a Tankless Job, but Somebody’s Gotta Do It: Assessing Consumer Reactions to a Utility-Sponsored Tankless Water Heating Program."

Tim Pettit presented, "The Green, Green Grassroots of Home: Measuring Community-Based Clean Energy Market Development Initiatives in Connecticut" and co-authored a poster (presented by Elizabeth Titus of NEEP) called "Duct Soup."

Lynn Hoefgen co-authored the following paper, "Do I have to?: Convincing program and evaluation staff program logic models are valuable," presented by Victoria Engel (NYSERDA).

Lisa Wilson-Wright and Lynn Hoefgen co-authored a paper presented by by Dorothy Conant, "ENERGY STAR® Homes: You've Decided You Need a New Baseline Study—Now What?"

Betty Tolkin co-authored another paper presented by Dorothy Conant, "New ENERGY STAR Homes Requirements: Is it Harder to Recruit and Keep Builders?"