Our Place in the Industry

We have provided evaluation services in 19 of the top 25 states 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 36 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.

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*Based on ACEEE’s 2022 State Energy Efficiency Scorecard.

Our 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

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.