Research Themes +
Energy Technologies Area (ETA) researchers are continually building on the strong scientific foundation we have developed over the past 50 years. We address the world’s most pressing climate challenges by bringing to market energy-efficient innovations across the buildings, transportation, and industrial sectors. ETA is at the forefront of developing better batteries for electric vehicles; improving the country's aging electrical grid and innovating distributed energy and storage solutions; developing grid-interactive, efficient buildings; and providing the most comprehensive market and data analysis worldwide for renewable technologies like wind and solar.
Strategic Initiatives +
The Energy Technologies Area (ETA) Strategic Plan is the guiding force for our research and development for the next ten years. It clearly charts a path toward clean-energy solutions and focuses on five detailed Strategic Initiatives. The Plan provides an in-depth look at how ETA is accelerating research to provide affordable, clean energy to all while accomplishing deep, economy-wide decarbonization, looking to avoid a rise in global average temperature while simultaneously developing solutions to increase humanity's resilience to extreme weather volatility.
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About Us +
The Energy Technologies Area (ETA) is unique in translating fundamental scientific discoveries into scalable technology adoption. Our approach combines an understanding of the marketplace and the role of state and federal regulation and policies. ETA's research drives real-world, practical results that affect and improve the everyday lives of Americans and those across the globe. Saving energy and battling the Climate Crisis are key to the foundation of our research, which is driven by technoeconomic analysis and in-lab experimentation and discovery.

Publications

Publications by Research Area

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2022

Beiter, Philipp, Joseph Rand, Joachim Seel, Eric Lantz, Patrick Gilman, and Ryan H. Wiser."Expert perspectives on the wind plant of the future."Wind Energy (2022). DOI

2021

Wiser, Ryan H., Joseph Rand, Joachim Seel, Philipp Beiter, Erin Baker, Eric Lantz, and Patrick Gilman."Expert elicitation survey predicts 37% to 49% declines in wind energy costs by 2050."Nature Energy (2021). DOI

Beiter, Philipp, Aubryn Cooperman, Eric Lantz, Tyler Stehly, Matt Shields, Ryan H. Wiser, Thomas Telsnig, Lena Kitzing, Volker Berkhout, and Yuka Kikuchi."Wind power costs driven by innovation and experience with further reductions on the horizon."WIREs Energy & Environment (2021). DOI

2020

Duffy, Aidan, Maureen Hand, Ryan H. Wiser, Eric Lantz, Alberto Dalla Riva, Volker Berkhout, Maria Stenkvist, David E. Weir, and Roberto Lacal-Arántegui."Land-based wind energy cost trends in Germany, Denmark, Ireland, Norway, Sweden and the United States."Applied Energy 277 (2020). DOI

Bolinger, Mark, Eric Lantz, Ryan H. Wiser, Ben Hoen, Joseph Rand, and Robert Hammond."Opportunities for and Challenges to Further Reductions in the “Specific Power” Rating of Wind Turbines Installed in the United States."Wind Engineering (2020). DOI

2019

Hoen, Ben, Jeremy Firestone, Joseph Rand, Debi Elliott, Gundula Hübner, Johannes Pohl, Ryan H. Wiser, Eric Lantz, Ryan Haac, and Ken Kaliski."Attitudes of U.S. Wind Turbine Neighbors: Analysis of a Nationwide Survey."Energy Policy 134 (2019). DOI

Riva, Alberto Dalla, János Hethey, Silke Lüers, Anna-Kathrin Wallasch, Knud Rehfeldt, Aidan Duffy, David Edward Weir, Maria Stenkvist, Andreas Uihlein, Tyler Stehly, Eric Lantz, Ryan H. Wiser, and M Maureen Hand."IEA Wind TCP Task 26‒Wind Technology, Cost, and Performance Trends in Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, the European Union, and the United States: 2008‒2016." (2019).

Wiser, Ryan H., Mark Bolinger, and Eric Lantz."Benchmarking Wind Power Operating Costs in the United States: Results from a Survey of Wind Industry Experts." (2019).

2017

Mai, Trieu, Eric Lantz, Matthew Mowers, and Ryan H. Wiser."The Value of Wind Technology Innovation: Implications for the U.S. Power System, Wind Industry, Electricity Consumers, and Environment." (2017).

2016

Wiser, Ryan H., Karen Jenni, Joachim Seel, Erin Baker, M Maureen Hand, Eric Lantz, and Aaron Smith."Expert elicitation survey on future wind energy costs."Nature Energy 1.10 (2016) 16135. DOI

Wiser, Ryan H., Mark Bolinger, Garvin A. Heath, David Keyser, Eric Lantz, Jordan Macknick, Trieu Mai, and Dev Millstein."Long-term implications of sustained wind power growth in the United States: Potential benefits and secondary impacts."Applied Energy 179.1 October 2016 (2016) 146-158. DOI

Lantz, Eric, Trieu Mai, Ryan H. Wiser, and Venkat Krishnan."Long-term implications of sustained wind power growth in the United States: Direct electric system impacts and costs."Applied Energy 179.1 October 2016 (2016) 832-846. DOI

Wiser, Ryan H., Karen Jenni, Joachim Seel, Erin Baker, M Maureen Hand, Eric Lantz, and Aaron Smith."Forecasting Wind Energy Costs and Cost Drivers: The Views of the World’s Leading Experts." (2016).

2015

Wiser, Ryan H., Eric Lantz, Trieu Mai, Jose Zayas, Edgar A. DeMeo, Ed Eugeni, Jessica Lin-Powers, and Richard Tusing."Wind Vision: A New Era for Wind Power in the United States."The Electricity Journal 28.9 (2015). DOI

Vitina, Aisma, Silke Lüers, Anna-Kathrin Wallasch, Volker Berkhout, Aidan Duffy, Brendan Cleary, Lief I. Husabø, David E. Weir, Roberto Lacal-Arántegui, M Maureen Hand, Eric Lantz, Kathy Belyeu, Ryan H. Wiser, Mark Bolinger, and Ben Hoen."IEA Wind Task 26: Wind Technology, Cost, and Performance Trends in Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Norway, the European Union, and the United States: 2007–2012." (2015).

2012

Brown, Jason P, John Pender, Ryan H. Wiser, Eric Lantz, and Ben Hoen."Ex Post Analysis of Economic Impacts from Wind Power Development in U.S. Counties."Energy Economics 34.6 (2012). DOI

Brown, Jason P, John Pender, Ryan H. Wiser, Eric Lantz, and Ben Hoen."The Impact of Wind Development on County-Level Income and Employment: A Review of Methods and an Empirical Analysis (Fact Sheet)." (2012).

Lantz, Eric, Ryan H. Wiser, M Maureen Hand, Athanasia Arapogianni, Alberto Ceña, Emilien Simonot, and Edward James-Smith."IEA Wind Task 26: The Past And Future Cost Of Wind Energy." (2012).

Wiser, Ryan H., Eric Lantz, Mark Bolinger, and M Maureen Hand."Recent Developments in the Levelized Cost of Energy from U.S. Wind Power Projects." (2012).

2011

Brown, Jason P, Ben Hoen, Eric Lantz, John Pender, and Ryan H. Wiser."Economic Impacts of Wind Turbine Development in U.S. Counties."Poster Presented at the AAEA & NAREA Joint Annual Meeting, July 24-26, 2011, Pittsburgh, PA (2011) 1.