Employees
Lynn Hoefgen, PhD
Founder and President
Lynn has over 25 years experience in energy-related evaluation and market research. For the US EPA, for many years he was the Research Director for efforts in support of the ENERGY STAR label. He has been a key member of the team that has helped NYSERDA coordinate and supervise other evaluation contractors, helped write NYSERDA’s annual program evaluation and status report for several years, and set up a system to track indicators of program success. For the sponsors of the Massachusetts programs, he led a team that developed long-term evaluation plans for three residential programs, and for years has led broad-ranging evaluations of their residential lighting, appliances, and new homes programs. He has conducted leading-edge work in assessing program effects on the market penetration of NEMA Premium motors, efficient appliances, and efficient lighting. Of three pilot studies on market effects commissioned by the California Public Utilities Commission, he is directing one (residential new construction) and is a core team member on a second (CFLs). Recently, he organized an effort involving multiple states and multiple program sponsors to develop statistical models of the effects of efficiency programs on net CFL sales and CFL saturation. He has also directed two of the largest energy-related commercial and industrial survey efforts ever conducted in the U.S. and Canada. He holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Florida.
Lynn conducted his dissertation research on the reintegration of returnees from the colonies into Portuguese life after Portugal’s “Carnation Revolution.” When not in Cambridge, he and his wife Ruth continue to spend time in Portugal and refresh their Portuguese language skills at their vacation house overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Lynn walks nearly everywhere he goes in Cambridge, not only to reduce his carbon footprint, but also for his great enjoyment—and to run errands!