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Program Benefits Analysis

The Office of Planning, Budget, and Analysis (PBA) performs public benefits analysis, which estimates the future benefits of EERE programs under the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. While looking at projected benefits, this analysis also retroactively assesses the benefits of past program activities.

Through PBA, EERE provides estimates of program benefits in its annual Congressional Budget Request. These estimates represent one piece of EERE's GPRA implementation efforts—documenting some of the economic, environmental, and security benefits (or outcomes) from achieving program goals. EERE estimates benefits for its overall portfolio and for each of its nine research, development, demonstration, and deployment (RD3) programs. Benefits for most budget requests are estimated for the midterm and long term.

This page includes access to the full reports from 2003 to the most recent report. You will also find links to background and foundational documents related to the GRPA benefits analysis.

Benefits Estimates by Year

Background and Foundational Documents

  • Methodology and Results
    Features documents from an extensive, formal expert peer review of GPRA methodology and results.

  • Foundational Documents
    Features documents that form the basis of benefits analysis in EERE as a legal requirement.

  • Related Links
    Features links to some of the data used by EERE for its benefits analyses.

Modeling EERE Deployment Programs

The Planning, Analysis, and Evaluation (PAE) group at EERE worked with the Technology Development (TD) programs to identify and characterize the modeling of deployment programs within their programs, address possible improvements to the modeling process, and note gaps in knowledge in which future research is needed.

A presentation (PowerPoint 579 KB) and report (PDF 2.3 MB) outlining the findings from the "Modeling EERE Deployment Programs" project are available on this Web site. Download Adobe Reader

These documents include the key results from analyses that were completed for each of the identified tasks. The current deployment activities taking place in EERE are summarized, and a characterization of the EERE Deployment structure is provided. Current deployment-modeling efforts are also characterized with respect to each program, and the steps taken to incorporate a given program into an integrated framework are described. The gaps in knowledge regarding deployment modeling are discussed, and possible modeling strategies that may address some of these gaps are presented. Conclusions and recommendations for further, more-detailed modeling work also are included.

More Data and Analysis Information

Access PBA's Analysis Database for more data and analysis information, which is produced by both EERE and other research organizations.

If you are interested in estimates of retrospective performance and benefits of EERE programs please visit Program Performance and Evaluation.