Call for abstracts - International Energy Programme Evaluation Conference (IEPEC)

European Call for Abstracts -- Open!

Call For Abstracts: June 2009-closes November 2, 2009

Posting of Selections: February 2010

Registration Opens: February 2010

Abstracts are welcome on evaluation that covers all forms of energy production, use, disposal, environmental mitigation and sustainability. We also welcome evaluation on policy, governance issues and social behavioral change.

Open to anyone working in the evaluation fields including scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and students. Topics include:

1. Consumer Marketing and Intelligence (e.g., Marketing strategies and effectiveness, identifying potential or premium customers)
2. Evaluating Products and Services (e.g., Competitive pricing, emerging technologies)
3. Understanding Customers and Customer Behaviour (e.g., Measuring the impact of media campaigns, education programs, importance of social marketing in promotional campaigns)
4. Performance Management (e.g., Measuring and identifying baselines; portfolio versus project performance)
5. Monitoring and Evaluation of Markets and Market Transformation (e.g., Evaluating regional efforts and quantifying savings)
6. Energy Programs in the Context of Sustainability (e.g., Evaluating efficiency, sustainability and green programs, carbon reduction strategies, codes/standards)
7. Evaluation Designs, Implementation and Results (e.g., Process, impact and market evaluations, quantifying non-energy benefits, top-down vs. bottom-up evaluation, statistical methods, joint implementation and clean development mechanisms)
8. Energy Programs as a Utility System Resource (e.g. Public/private partnerships, evaluating alternative program delivery mechanisms, evaluation of integrated intelligent utility systems)
9. Addressing Public Policy Issues (e.g., Evaluation of efficiency or green programs, greenhouse gas mitigation strategies and effects-national, state, city or international), verifying program performance (meeting compliance requirements), policy evaluation in particular methodologies to evaluate National Energy Efficiency Action Plans and Strategies and for calculating national energy savings)
10. International Energy Program Evaluation
(e.g., Standards and Practices at the regional, national and international level, cross national comparisons, white certificates).

The call for abstracts is open. Please visit the website at www.iepec.org/index_paris.htm for full details and follow the links in the left hand navigation bar for IEPEC Paris.