Advancing Residential Energy Efficiency through Rigorous Evaluation in the Climate Action Learning Lab

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Webinar Overview

As J-PAL North America opens applications for a new Climate Action Learning Lab for state and local governments, we are conducting two webinars—one focused on residential energy efficiency and one focused on transportation decarbonization—that explore how data and rigorous evaluation can be leveraged to build the evidence base and scale mitigation solutions that work.

This webinar will provide an overview of how research can be leveraged to improve jurisdiction energy efficiency programming, showcasing the Weatherization Assistance Program in Illinois. Panelists will discuss the process of assessing a jurisdiction's energy efficiency evaluation needs, determining and establishing experimental design, and utilizing evidence to inform programming. Panelists will reflect on the process of forming successful researcher-government partnerships, as well as the challenges and lessons gained from them.

We will also provide information about the J-PAL North America Climate Action Learning Lab and answer questions related to this exciting opportunity.

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Panelists 

Erica Myers is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Calgary and holds the Canada Research Chair in Environmental, Energy and Resource Economics. She serves as a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), an invited researcher at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), and a faculty affiliate at the E2e initiative. Her research interests are in the fields of Energy and Environmental Economics. Erica’s primary area of interest is environmental and energy economics. She received her PhD in Environmental and Resource Economics from UC Berkeley in 2014.

Peter Christensen is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He serves as the Scientific Advisor of the J-PAL North America Environment, Energy, and Climate Change (EECC) sector. As an applied microeconomist, he studies energy/environmental, public, and urban economics. Peter seeks to understand how public policy and technological interventions can be used to improve environmental outcomes and increase social mobility and equity in cities around the world. He received his PhD in environmental and resource economics from Yale University.

Paul Francisco is the Director of the Indoor Climate Research & Training Division and IREC-accredited weatherization training center at the Champaign County Regional Planning Commission. He is also a Sr. Research Associate at Colorado State University’s Energy Institute. He has been performing housing research for over 30 years with a focus on energy efficiency and indoor air quality.

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