2006 National Program Evaluation

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Weatherization Assistance Program (the Program) was created in 1976 to deliver energy conservation services to low-income Americans. DOE sponsored a comprehensive evaluation of the Program in the early 1990's that was performed by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and was based primarily on data collected from the 1989 Program Year (see 1989 National Program Evaluation). In more recent years, ORNL has conducted four metaevaluations of the Program for DOE using studies conducted by individual states (see 2005 Update to the 1989 National Program Evaluation). In 2005, DOE announced through its Weatherization Program Notice 05-1 that it would undertake a new national evaluation of the Program.

ORNL has developed for DOE a preliminary evaluation plan for this new national evaluation that is based primarily on data that will be collected during the 2006 Program Year. In performing this planning activity, ORNL solicited input from a Network Planning Committee that met on March 23-24, 2005, an Experts Planning Committee that met via a conference call on May 23, 2005, a veterans committee that was comprised of three key personnel responsible for the 1989 National Program Evaluation, and a Peer Review Panel that met on October 17-18, 2006.

A summary of and links to materials pertinent to the 2006 National Program Evaluation are provided below. These include the preliminary evaluation plan, and materials and reports associated with the Experts Planning Committee and the Network Planning Committee.

Network Planning Committee Charter

Network Planning Committee Meeting Agenda

Network Planning Committee Participants List

Network Planning Committee Meeting Notes

Experts Planning Committee Materials:

Charter

Conference Call Agenda

Participants List

Evaluation - Purpose, Goals, and General Design

Conference Call Notes

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Contact: Martin Schweitzer
ORNL
PO Box 2008 MS 6036
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6038

Phone: 865-576-2726
Fax: 865-576-3989

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