Current: An Energy Podcast

Whether you walk, bike, or ride, this episode is dedicated to public transportation and mobility under COVID-19. From "open streets" to empty subways, Americans are rethinking how to get from point A to point B, and in the process, changing the character of our cities. Listen in as Anne Dougherty talks with ILLUME’s Dr. Liz Kelley and Amanda Maass as they share their perspectives from a lens of cultural anthropology and urban planning.

In this episode of Current we preview this week's webinar on The Digital Divide with Steve Holmes, Superintendent of the second-largest district in Southern Arizona. Steve sits down with ILLUME's Victor Mercado to talk access and equity, public-private partnerships, and why more needs to be done to incentivize schools as they transition to clean energy.

Anne Dougherty and Ben Riehle from the Apex Team at Keller Williams Southern Arizona discuss the state of property management ahead of this week's virtual focus group with leaders of some of Arizona's largest master-planned, multifamily, commercial, retail, and restaurant developments.

We go behind-the-scenes as ILLUME Founders and Co-Owners, Anne Dougherty and Sara Conzemius, talk about the impacts of COVID-19 on small businesses ahead of a virtual focus group with entrepreneurs and business owners.

In this week’s podcast we discuss ways that evaluation practitioners in the energy industry are thinking through program impacts in light of COVID-19. Listen in as Anne Dougherty talks with ILLUME’s technical team as they discuss how massive shifts in energy use patterns has us rethinking everything from baselines to alternative metrics for 2020.

As the country’s attention, actions, and spending are fully mobilized toward public health and the economy ILLUME Technical Director for Quantitative Research, Amanda Dwelley sits down with Anne Dougherty to discuss the overlap between public health and energy, supporting vulnerable populations, and rethinking our metrics for distributive justice.

COVID-19 has, in a matter of weeks, radically changed the American landscape. In this special episode of Current we navigate how the energy industry responds and adapts to the novel coronavirus as we preview our upcoming ILLUME webinar, "Research Considerations in the Time of COVID-19."

Today’s utility customers are more diverse, communicate in a variety of languages, and employ different language registers throughout the day. In this episode, Anne Dougherty talks with ILLUME's Dr. Alex Dunn, Managing Director and Dr. Liz Kelley, Director for Qualitative Research as they preview their upcoming webinar and presentation at ACEEE's Summer Study on Energy Efficiency and Buildings, "A Rose is Not a Rose by Any Other Name: Why Language in Context Matters."

In this episode, Anne Dougherty travels to Portland, Oregon to talk with ILLUME Senior Managing Director, Jes Rivas about why emerging technologies and new business initiatives are becoming more common, and how utilities can shift their thinking around the pipeline development process.

ILLUME's in-house political tracker, Erin LaVoie takes a closer look at the 2020 presidential candidates through the lens of climate change, as she examines their plans and policies to tackle this existential threat.