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Steve Kihm
CFA, Research Director
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Steve is the Energy Center's Research Director, as well as its utility finance and policy guru. His background in public utility regulation and finance supports his technical and analytical work evaluating energy efficiency programs and developing, analyzing and critiquing policy initiatives. Steve is a published author; he's written articles for The Electricity Journal and Public Utilities Fortnightly, and he's written a children's book, The Lost Candy Bar.

Steve holds a Master of Business Administration in Finance and a Master of Science in Quantitative Analysis, both from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate School of Business. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Steve's work includes

• Center for Neighborhood Technology
  Steve serves as a member of an advisory group working on an integrated resource planning project for sustainable water planning within the Great Lakes Region.
• Energy Efficiency and Demand Response Potential for Iowa Municipal Utilities for the Years 2012 and 2018
  By 2012 Iowa Association of Municipal Utilities members could save 58 ...
• Energy Efficiency's Great Potential
  In this webcast, Susan Stratton and Steve Kihm present compelling research findings that energy efficiency is justified not only on broad environmental and social policy grounds, but on economic grounds as well ...
• Focus on Energy: PowerCost Monitor Study (PDF)
  If consumers are given immediate feedback on their electricity consumption, will they make changes that reduce their consumption? That was the primary question the Energy Center of Wisconsin sought to answer for Focus on Energy through a study of the PowerCost Monitor™ feedback device.
• A Reflection of Ourselves...How Households Interact with In-Home Feedback Devices: Results from a Treatment/Control Experiment
  This paper presents the results of an assessment of the electricity savings from such a device (BlueLine Innovation's PowerCost Monitor (PCM)), and shows that savings are dependent upon individual household behavior ...
• Risk, Uncertainty and Energy Efficiency: A Real Options Analysis
  This webcast explores how uncertainty affects industrial decision-making processes from a policy perspective as well as from an energy efficiency program design perspective ...
• The Financial Effects of Energy Efficiency on Utilities: A Closer Look at Decoupling
  This webcast presents decoupling as a tactical tool that can be applied effectively to some utilities rather than a strategic approach that will work for all utilities ...
• Uncertainty, Real Options, and Industrial Energy Efficiency Decisions (Paper and Presentation)
  The Energy Center's Research Director Steven Kihm presented a paper on the use of real options in industrial energy efficiency decision-making at the 2009 ACEEE summer study on energy efficiency in industry conference in Niagra Falls, New York ...