Personnel

Dr. Stephen Grover, President of Evergreen Economics, is a Ph.D. economist with over 15 years experience researching energy issues and evaluating energy efficiency programs. Dr. Grover’s expertise is in discrete choice modeling and estimating models of consumer behavior using revealed and stated preference techniques. Energy efficiency projects include impact, market and process evaluations for numerous utilities and energy agencies throughout the US and Canada. Recent renewable energy projects include assessing the market potential for solar energy technologies among commercial customers for the National Renewable Energy Lab and estimating the economic impacts of renewable energy program spending by the Energy Trust of Oregon.

In addition to his work at Evergreen Economics, Dr. Grover has worked as an adjunct professor at Portland State University where he has taught courses in econometric forecasting and energy economics. In 2006, he served on the Oregon Governor’s Carbon Allocation Task Force, which developed a plan for a cap-and-trade carbon allocation system to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Oregon. Currently he is one of twelve people serving on the Oregon Governor’s Energy Planning Council.

Dr. Grover holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a B.A. in Economics from Pacific Lutheran University.
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Tami Rasmussen, Vice President at Evergreen Economics, has 15 years experience in conducting energy efficiency program impact and process evaluations in California, the Northwest and nationwide. Ms. Rasmussen has managed large-scale evaluations including Hawaii Energy’s 2009-2010 portfolio of energy efficiency programs covering residential, commercial, industrial, military and low-income sectors. As a senior principal at KEMA Inc., Ms. Rasmussen directed large-scale evaluations and market assessments across the nation including California utility statewide impact, process and market assessments addressing residential lighting, multi-family, and single-family, education and training, demand response, renewable and local government partnership programs. Ms. Rasmussen also supported the California utilities’ efforts to develop program performance metrics for the 2010-2012 energy efficiency portfolio.

Ms. Rasmussen holds an M.A. in Economics with a concentration in Econometrics, University of California, Santa Barbara. She also holds a B.A. in Economics with a concentration in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Phi Beta Kappa, College Honors and Honors in the Major, University of California, Santa Cruz.
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Dr. Ted Helvoigt, Vice President, specializes in econometric and statistical analysis and mathematical optimization. He has applied these methods in a wide range of projects dealing with energy impact analysis, benefit-cost analysis, and regional economic and demographic forecasting. Recent energy evaluation projects include regression and other statistical analysis for the 2009 California Low Income Energy Efficiency program and the 2009-11 Low Income Energy Efficiency Program in Ohio. Dr Helvoigt has developed sophisticated stratified and cluster sampling designs for numerous energy efficiency evaluations. He recently estimated a discrete choice, nested logit model to determine net impacts as part of the California Small Commercial Customer Program impact evaluation, estimated a two-stage model to estimate attribution of energy savings to home energy education in California, and has developed billing regression models to estimate energy savings for industrial customers for the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance.

Dr. Helvoigt holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research and Management Science from Oregon State University, an M.S. in Resource Economics from the University of Montana, and a B.A. in Business Administration from Ashland University (Ohio).
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John Boroski, Consultant, is an experienced project manager with extensive experience managing process and impact evaluations. Recently Mr. Boroski managed the impact evaluation of California’s Water Pilot Programs, which were designed to measure the amount of embedded energy saved through water conservation programs to determine if these water conservation programs also provide a cost effective method for saving energy. He has also worked on the evaluations for Southern California Edison’s Nonresidential Hard-to-Reach program and the Statewide Emerging Technologies Program. In addition to his California work, John is involved with the evaluation of the ENERGY STAR Homes Northwest program for the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance and has managed the bi-annual audit of Oregon’s public benefit charge program that is used to fund energy efficiency programs.

Mr. Boroski has a Master of Urban and Regional Planning from Portland State University and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Notre Dame.
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Kevin Price, Consultant, has 4 years experience involved in residential and commercial energy efficiency program impact and process evaluations in California, the Northwest and nationwide. As a Senior Analyst at KEMA, Inc., Mr. Price assisted in the management of data collection efforts and data analysis for the process and impact evaluations of the California Upstream Lighting Program, including developing protocols, creating telephone survey materials, training field technicians, and conducting metering of residential lighting usage. Mr. Price also directed and conducted data analysis and reporting for this project. Mr. Price managed the impact evaluation of the Ontario Power Authority’s Small Commercial Direct Installation Program and provided both technical and analytical support for a commercial lighting metering study in Hawaii. He also has managed data collection efforts and conducted analysis for lighting programs in the Pacific Northwest and commercial direct install programs in New York. He also helped write a market effects history of CFL rebate programs in the State of California, focusing on market barriers to consumer adoption, as well as the rate of adoption over time. He has also assisted in market evaluations including cost-effectiveness assessments for the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance for residential sector programs.

Kevin Price holds a B.A. in Environmental Studies and Geography from UCSB.
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Jenny Yaillen, Consultant, is an experienced researcher working on energy efficiency program impact and process evaluations in California and the Northwest. Ms. Yaillen has conducted discrete choice modeling of consumer energy efficiency equipment choices, along with a wide range of experience with statistical analysis, econometrics, process evaluations, survey design and data analysis, and developing logic models in support of other evaluation activities. Her most recent work has been developing enhanced inspection plans for deemed energy efficiency programs for Southern California Edison. Other work has included managing survey data and analysis of participant data for energy efficiency programs and was extensively involved in the recent Statewide Impact Evaluation of the Small Commercial Programs for the California Public Utilities Commission.

Ms. Yaillen holds a B.S. in Economics and a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Oregon and an M.S. in Economics from the University of California-Santa Barbara.
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Matthew Koson, Senior Analyst, is a Senior Analyst at Evergreen, with experience working on a wide variety of energy efficiency program impact and process evaluations in California, Hawaii, Nevada, Ohio, Michigan and the Pacific Northwest. Recent projects include a nationwide impact evaluation of the ARRA-funded Better Buildings Program, where he is the lead analyst conducting billing regressions to estimate program savings. Other project experience includes analysis of participant tracking systems to verify savings claims, creating program logic models, analyzing phone survey results using SPSS, and assisting with the development of a database of energy use by manufacturers in the Pacific Northwest. Mr. Koson is experienced with a number of econometric software packages including EViews, Matlab, LimDep, R, SPSS, and Stata.

Mr. Koson holds an M.A., Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara, a B.A., Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a B.A., Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Martha Thompson, Analyst, has research experience stemming from her four years with the SLOAN Center for Everyday Lives of Families at the University of California Los Angeles. Her experience in the energy field comes from vigorous coursework in Environmental Economics and Public Policy in addition to a consulting project briefing Southern California Edison on the current status of Whole House programs both in the United States and abroad. Her most recent projects include multiple process and impact evaluations including work for Hawaii Energy and lighting market research for the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance.

Ms. Thompson has a B.A. in Economics from UCLA.
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