Madison & Las Vegas – September 17, 2024 – ILLUME Advising, LLC (ILLUME) and Encolor are pleased to announce they have entered a strategic partnership, combining both firms’ best-in-class consulting services to deliver enhanced and equitable benefits in support of the energy industry.
Equity plays a critical role in the energy transition, and government agencies, utilities, and organizations across the United States recognize the need to ensure their policies, programs, and services provide equitable solutions and outcomes for all communities. The ILLUME-Encolor partnership brings together deep skills in energy-related research, evaluation, market intelligence, planning, design, and implementation to help support clients through successful transformations to address environmental and energy justice issues. The services this partnership will provide the industry include:
- Policy advisory services that operationalize policy into action plans, program designs, and frameworks to achieve equitable outcomes, increase engagement, and demonstrate measurable progress.
- Stakeholder engagement and strategy development to identify and deliver equitable outcomes with communities and other relevant stakeholders.
- Evaluation, metrics development, and impact assessments to monitor the effectiveness of a client’s investments in service to its goals.
- Primary and secondary research with an equitable lens in support of energy efficiency, and decarbonization planning, projects, and programs.
- Defining measurable baseline equity metrics and the methods for federal, state, and local policies and programs.
- Diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice (DEIJ) assessments and trainings to help clients learn, strategize, and build capacity on these topics within their organization.
“The ILLUME-Encolor partnership is a powerful combination. Encolor’s understanding of complex DEIJ and experience advising clients on operationalizing equitable policies and programs is uniquely complimentary with ILLUME’s mission and practice area expertise. We believe this partnership will generate industry-leading practices and methodologies,” said Anne Dougherty, ILLUME Co-Founder. “With over seven active projects with Encolor, this partnership enhances both our teams’ capabilities enabling us to achieve more impactful outcomes for our clients.”
“Partnering with ILLUME to deliver transformation for our clients will allow us to provide comprehensive business, program, and portfolio strategies,” said Quinn Parker, Encolor CEO. “Together, working as one team, we will advise our clients on the best paths forward to successfully integrate equitable policies, procedures, metrics, and outcomes for the communities and people they serve.”
ILLUME and Encolor are ideally positioned to partner in advancing an equitable clean energy transition. With complementary expertise, service offerings, and shared mission and values, this partnership aims to meet the diverse needs of our clients and empower our teams to act as co-conspirators for change.
ILLUME Advising, LLC (ILLUME) is a wholly women-owned consultancy that provides holistic, human-centered and equitable research, evaluation, market assessment, and technical advisory services to administrators and regulators of energy efficiency and clean energy programs. ILLUME measures the impacts of energy efficiency and clean energy programs and provides strategic guidance for improving program design and delivery. We support clients as they aim to leverage emerging technology, empathy-focused research, data analytics, and customer-centric design strategies to build cleaner, safer, and more resilient energy infrastructure and, ultimately, healthier, and more sustainable communities.
Encolor is a small, diverse woman-owned consulting firm with national experience providing a range of consulting and advisory services including strategy, research, evaluation, planning, program design, training, and facilitation – all with a diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice (DEIJ) lens. In addition, Encolor supports the planning, design, and implementation of community-centered and equity-focused initiatives and is dedicated to increasing awareness and providing diverse, equitable, and inclusive solutions.
