Demand-side management programs drive cost-effective energy and peak demand savings, emission reductions, demand flexibility, and a wide range of non-energy impacts.
The Econoler team of experienced evaluation professionals helps demand-side management (DSM) program administrators enhance program design, delivery, and results:
Ensure your DSM programs deliver measurable results, and maximize their impacts.
Our team works collaboratively with clients to ensure that evaluations are guided by your needs and research objectives. We plan carefully to minimize the burden on your team while delivering impactful results and insightful recommendations. Finally, we present results in clear, easy-to-understand formats tailored to the needs of DSM program teams, utility leadership, and key stakeholders.
Our approach includes:
Our clients include BC Hydro, the IESO, Efficiency Nova Scotia, NB Power, and many other leading Canadian DSM program administrators. We understand the Canadian utility context; we are a 100% Canadian-owned company, based in Quebec, with offices in British Columbia and Ontario.
Our team of more than 20 full-time evaluation professionals — engineers, market researchers, and utility strategists — constantly innovates and remains current on the latest analysis tools and techniques, including big data analytics from AMI, DERMS, and other sources.
Econoler develops energy efficiency evaluation frameworks for Canadian utilities by aligning evaluation, measurement and verification plans with regulatory contexts and portfolio objectives (e.g. gross/net savings, peak impacts, and emission reductions). We sequence impact, process, market, and cost-effectiveness evaluations across multiyear cycles to optimize rigour and resources.
Our team applies evaluation best practices while developing innovative approaches to calculating program impacts. We bring experience across a wide variety of calculation methods and data inputs, including big data analysis of utility AMI data, engineering desk reviews, onsite verification visits, and estimations of market transformation savings.
DSM programs achieve a range of benefits beyond energy savings. We work closely with clients and program participants to identify and quantify opportunities for non-energy impacts, including increase comfort, quality of life, economic development, productivity, and asset value.
We assess the effectiveness of program design, delivery, and implementation to identify barriers, improve customer experience, and enhance operational efficiency. We use a range of research approaches, including data collection and jurisdictional research, in collaboration with program participants as well as non-participants, partners, and other stakeholders.
We analyze how programs affect markets — product availability, pricing trends, product adoption rates — by comparing historical data, baselines, and program-attributed changes. Our approach combines data analysis with stakeholder and market actor inputs to help utilities account for market impacts and plan for future market shifts.
Econoler evaluates codes and standards support-acceleration programs by assessing their impact on market transformation and energy savings through compliance analysis, baseline studies, and attribution modelling. Our approach integrates regulatory reviews with stakeholder consultations to identify barriers, measure program influence, and provide actionable recommendations to enhance policy effectiveness and utility objectives.
We measure long-term shifts in market structures, behaviours, and product adoption rates by comparing pre and post-intervention baselines and tracking indicators such as availability, pricing, and awareness. By combining quantitative trend analysis with qualitative stakeholder input, we attribute the relevant market changes to utility programs and provide strategic recommendations to sustain transformation.
Partner with Econoler to ensure your DSM programs deliver results by enhancing program design, validating results, and capturing the full range of impacts.