Our Place in the Industry
We have provided evaluation services in 19 of the top 25 states, plus the District of Columbia, for energy-efficiency policy and programs, as ranked by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy in its state scorecard.* Our evaluation experience spans the entire North American continent.
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Our Employees
NMR is made up of 37 employee-owners. Our staff includes six people with PhDs in fields such as economics, engineering and public policy, demography, and various social sciences; and 17 people with masters’ degrees in fields such as energy and environmental analysis, economics, business administration, and public policy.
Meet Our TeamOur Values
NMR’s core values are environmental stewardship, producing the highest quality work possible, and concern and care for colleagues’ professional and personal welfare and equity.
In 2017, NMR became employee-owned through an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP).
“The greatest benefit of our transition to an ESOP is that it will allow NMR to maintain its culture and core values. Living out these values has kept our employee turnover rate very low, providing continuity in project management and maintaining in-depth knowledge of project and program history."
Lynn Hoefgen Founder and President Emeritus
The NMR ESOP Origin Story
Our Core Purpose
We help protect the environment and promote human welfare and equity
The employee-owners at NMR are strongly committed to our core purpose. Each day we do our part to protect the environment by producing evaluations of energy programs, purchasing solar electricity, recycling, composting, and committing to a car-free commute. In addition, each day we advance human welfare within our company by showing care for our colleagues, encouraging a healthy work-life balance, and fostering a supportive environment.
NMR is committed to building and maintaining a workplace where every employee feels welcomed, respected, and valued. We believe that a team made up of people with diverse backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and identities makes our work stronger and our organization better. We know that diversity is vital to promoting environmental and human welfare and creating an equitable society.
We recognize that creating a truly inclusive workplace requires ongoing effort and honest self-reflection. We acknowledge that we have more work to do, and are committed to doing it. To that end, we provide training and educational resources that support a respectful, inclusive environment for all staff, and encourage open dialogue and engagement across our organization.
We will continue to examine our policies, procedures, and decision-making practices to ensure they reflect our commitment to treating every person with dignity and fairness. Where we identify gaps, we will develop concrete solutions and hold ourselves accountable for meaningful progress.
Our Carbon Assessment
Being efficient and green is more than a business model for NMR.
It represents a personal commitment to our community and our planet.
Low Carbon Commuting: Nearly half of our staff members are full-time telecommuters; this reduces the carbon emissions associated with utilities and commuting. Those who do work in the office get there by walking, biking, or taking public transportation.
Green Business Practices: NMR leases solar panels to provide electricity to our offices. We also compost our food waste, print double-sided on 100% recycled paper, recycle our paper and plastics, and use environmentally friendly cleaning products.
Our Carbon Assessment: Each year, NMR participates in a corporate-wide carbon footprint assessment that measures our contribution to carbon dioxide emissions. The results of this assessment are used as the basis for purchasing offsets for 100% of the carbon emissions we are responsible for.
For example, NMR’s 2021 business activities, including travel, resulted in 105,111 pounds, or 48 tons, of carbon dioxide emissions. This is a decrease of 52% over 2018 and 45% over 2016. This decrease in emissions is due to a dramatic reduction in business travel, with these emissions plummeting by 91%. This represents a real change between 2018 and 2021, as the workforce transitioned almost entirely to working from home and taking far fewer business trips as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. No employees used airplanes and very few employees drove in 2021.
Additionally, as a result of most employees working from home, daily commute emissions dropped by 45%, while emissions from working from home increased by 75%. NMR gained four new employees in 2021, but downsized to two offices between 2018 and 2021 and further down to one in 2024. This also contributed to changes in home office and commute emissions.
