Evan Mills

Affiliate

Building Technology & Urban Systems Division

Residential Building Systems Group

Whole Building Systems Department

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

[email protected]

Evan Mills

Evan Mills is a retired Senior Scientist in the Building Technology and Urban Systems Division, and has worked in the energy efficiency field since 1982. He previously led the Center for Building Science at LBNL. His core commercial-buildings expertise is in energy benchmarking, commissioning, high-tech buildings, risk management, and the efficiency business case. He is a frequent speaker to academic and industry audiences on buildings energy efficiency, author of over 300 publications, and member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He is a recipient of an R&D 100 award for commercializing Home Energy Saver software in 2009. Mills holds a MS degree in Energy and Resources from U.C. Berkeley and a Ph.D. in Environmental and Energy Systems Studies from Lund University in Sweden.

Professional Websites/Social Media Links

Evan Mills

Home Energy Pros (home performance practitioners)

Home Energy Saver Community (network for consumers)

LuminaNET (off-grid lighting in the developing world)

Awards

May 2013

2013 Director's Awards for Exceptional Achievement: Societal Impact

Home Energy Scoring Tool and Web Services Team: Evan Mills, Norman Bourassa, Leo Rainer and Gregory Homan

Journal and Editorial Board Memberships

Energy Efficiency, Editorial Board

Light and Engineering, Foreign Editorial Advisory Board

Publications

2020

Less, Brennan, Iain S Walker, David M Lorenzetti, Evan Mills, Vi H Rapp, Spencer M Dutton, Michael D Sohn, Xiwang Li, Jordan D Clark, and Max H Sherman. Smart Ventilation for Advanced California Homes. 2020.

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2019

Mills, Evan, Norman Bourassa, Leo I Rainer, Jimmy Mai, Ian Vaino, Claire Curtin, Arman Shehabi, Louis-Benoit Desroches, and Nathaniel Mills. A Plug-Loads Game Changer: Computer Gaming Energy Efficiency without Performance Compromise. CEC, 2019.

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2018

Mills, Evan. Valuation of Green and High-Performance Property: Commercial, Multi-Family, and Institutional Properties. Washington, DC: The Appraisal Foundation, 2018.

2017

Mills, Evan. "Global Kerosene Subsidies: An Obstacle to Energy Efficiency and Development." World Development 99 (2017) 463-480.

Mills, Evan. "Beware kerosene subsidies: An obstacle to energy efficiency and development." European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy Columns. European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy, 2017.

Mills, Evan, Norman Bourassa, Leo I Rainer, Jimmy Mai, Louis-Benoit Desroches, Arman Shehabi, Ted Pollak, and Nathaniel Mills. An Energy-focused Profile of the Video Gaming Marketplace. 2017.

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2016

Mills, Evan, and Richard B Jones. "An Insurance Perspective on U.S. Electric Grid Disruption Costs." The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice 41.4 (2016) 555 - 586. LBNL-1006392.

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Alschuler, Elena, Cindy Zhu, Evan Mills, Andrew White, and Theddi Wright Chappell. "Appraising Green: Show me the Market Value." 2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, August 21-26, 2016. Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, CA, 2016.

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Mills, Evan. "Job Creation and Energy Savings Through a Transition to Modern Off-grid Lighting." Energy for Sustainable Development 33 (2016) 155-166.

Mills, Evan. "Action-Oriented Energy Benchmarking for Nonresidential Buildings." Proceedings of the IEEE 104.4 (2016) 697-712.

Mills, Evan. "Identifying and Reducing the Health and Safety Impacts of Fuel-Based Lighting." Energy for Sustainable Development 30 (2016) 39-50.

Mills, Evan. "Green Residential Appraisals in the United States Context: Challenges and Opportunities." Journal of Sustainable Real Estate (2016).

Curry, R., T. Lopez, Evan Mills, J. Moore, R. Sahadi, and T. Watkins. Valuation of Green and High-Performance Property: One- to Four-Unit Residential. 2016.

2015

Mills, Evan, Jessica Granderson, Wanyu R Chan, Richard C Diamond, Philip Haves, Bruce Nordman, Paul A Mathew, Mary Ann Piette, Gerald Robinson, and Stephen E Selkowitz. "Green, Clean, & Mean: Pushing the Energy Envelope in Tech Industry Buildings." 2015. LBNL-1005070E.

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Mills, Evan. A New Appraisal- Lessons from the History of Efforts to Value Green and High-Performance Home Attributes in the United States. 2015. 1003835.

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Mills, Evan. "Can Technology Free Developing Countries from Light Poverty?." 2015.

Mills, Evan. Looking For Value in All The Wrong Places: Toward Expanded Consideration of Green and High Performance Attributes in Non-residential Property Appraisals in the United States. 2015. LBNL-1003828.

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Mills, Evan, and Nathaniel Mills. "Taming the Energy Use of Gaming Computers." Energy Efficiency 2 (2015).

2014

Alstone, Peter, Patricia Lai, and Evan Mills. "High Life Cycle Efficacy Explains Fast Energy Payback for Improved Off-Grid Lighting in the Developing World." Journal of Industrial Ecology 18.5 (2014) 722-733.

Mills, Evan, Norman Bourassa, Leo I Rainer, Gregory K Homan, Noel Market, Danny S Parker, Glenn Dickey, and Joan Glickman. "Asset Rating with the Home Energy Scoring Tool." Energy and Building 80 (2014) 441-450.

Mills, Evan, Tim Gengnagel, and Philipp Wollburg. "Solar-LED Alternatives to Fuel-based Lighting for Night Fishing." Energy and Sustainable Development 21 (2014) 30-41.

Mills, Evan, J. Tracy, P. Alstone, Arne Jacobson, and P. Avato. "Low-cost LED flashlights and market spoiling in Kenya’s off-grid lighting market." Energy Efficiency 8.2 (2014) https://eta-publications.lbl.gov/publications?f%5Bauthor%5D=16780.

Craine, Stewart, Evan Mills, and Justin Guay. Clean Energy Services for All: Financing Universal Electrification. 2014.

Mills, Evan. "EnergyIQ for Action-oriented Benchmarking: Final Report." 2014.

Alstone, P, K Radecsky, Arne Jacobson, and Evan Mills. "Field Study Methods and Results from a Market Trial of Night Market Vendors in Rural Kenya." Light & Engineering 22.2 (2014).

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