Midwest Appropriate Technology Small Grants Program: management analysis

Technical Report · Sat Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 1983

OSTI ID:5489936

This report reviews 84 projects conducted with DOE funding. The projects cover a number of energy-related topics, including biomass conversion, solar energy, wind energy, energy education, energy conservation, and recycling. In an effort to assist DOE-Chicago in analyzing what types of grantees were more successful and why, the projects were ranked and grouped by several variables. To determine if particular characteristics functioned to make one project more successful than another, several statistical tests were conducted. While the results of quantitative testing are somewhat offset by the subjective nature of the project rankings, some patterns did seem to develop: The overall distribution of the projects showed a normal division: 23% superior, 55% average, and 23% poor. No particular grantee type was significantly more successful than the others, but colleges and universities did have fewer highly ranked projects than any other group. Michigan had proportionately more superior projects; Illinois and Ohio proportionately fewer. Grant awards over $40,000 yielded fewer superior projects.

• Research Organization: ESG, Inc., Atlanta, GA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-82CH10122
• OSTI ID: 5489936
• Report Number(s): DOE/CH/10122-18; ESG-83108; ON: DE84004482
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
290500* -- Energy Planning & Policy-- Research
Development
Demonstration
& Commercialization
BIOMASS
DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMS
EDUCATION
ENERGY
ENERGY CONSERVATION
ENERGY SOURCE DEVELOPMENT
ENERGY SOURCES
EVALUATION
FEDERAL REGION V
GRANTS
ILLINOIS
INDIANA
MANAGEMENT
MICHIGAN
MINNESOTA
NORTH AMERICA
OHIO
POWER
PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
RECYCLING
RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
SOLAR ENERGY
USA
WIND POWER
WISCONSIN