Energy Technologies Area

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 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)

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2024

Pitkin, Jeff, Jeff Deason, and Greg Leventis."Leveraging State Clean Water Revolving Funds to Expand Clean Energy Financing." (2024).

Chatellier-Lorentzen, Diego, Alberto Diaz-Gonzalez, Michael A McNeil, and Stephane de la Rue du Can."New Minimum Energy Performance Standard for Air Conditioners in Ecuador." (2024).

Peng, Liqun, Gang He, and Jiang Lin."Role of Pumped Hydro Storage in China’s Power System Transition." (2024).

Frick, Natalie Mims, and Lisa C Schwartz."A National Perspective on State Practices for Integrated Distribution System Planning." (2024).

Morash, Sean."Charging Ahead: Grid Planning for Vehicle Electrification." (2024).

McNeil, Wilson H, Fan Tong, Robert A Harley, Maximilian Auffhammer, and Corinne D Scown."Corridor-Level Impacts of Battery-Electric Heavy-Duty Trucks and the Effects of Policy in the United States."Environmental Science & Technology 58.1 (2024) 33 - 42. DOI

Wei, Max, Nica Campbell, Lis Blanco, Neah Downs Dybas, Erin Nobler, Sara Lechtenberg-Kasten, Alan T Jenn, and Monisha Shah."Equity and Energy Justice-Related Metric Development for Evaluation of State- Level Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Programs." (2024).

Fujita, K Sydny, Nica Campbell, and Margaret Taylor."EVs for everyone? Identifying the likely early majority of electric vehicle adopters." (2024).

Gerke, Brian F, Marius Stübs, Samanvitha Murthy, Aditya Khandekar, Peter Cappers, Richard E Brown, and Mary Ann Piette."Potential bill impacts of dynamic electricity pricing on California utility customers." (2024). DOI

Nilson, Robi, Ben Hoen, and Joseph Rand."Survey of Utility-Scale Wind and Solar Developers Report." (2024).

Simley, Eric, Dev Millstein, Seongeun Jeong, and Paul Fleming."The value of wake steering wind farm flow control in US energy markets."Wind Energy Science 9.1 (2024). DOI

Hamilton, Sofia D, Dien Wu, Matthew S Johnson, Alexander J Turner, Marc L Fischer, Nikhil Dadheech, and Seongeun Jeong."Estimating Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Two California Cities Using Bayesian Inversion and Satellite Measurements."Geophysical Research Letters 51.20 (2024). DOI

Moon, Hee Seung, Won Young Park, Thomas P Hendrickson, Amol A Phadke, and Natalie Popovich."Exploring the cost and emissions impacts, feasibility and scalability of battery electric ships."Nature Energy (2024). DOI

Blum, Helcio, Vi H Rapp, Sharon S Chen, Jing Ke, and Katherine Carlson."Laboratory Evaluation of Direct Heating Equipment." (2024).

Black, Douglas R, Nadia Panossian, Jingjing Liu, Bruce Nordman, John Farrell, Cabell Hodge, Andrew Meintz, Muhammad Abdullah, Mithat John Kisacikoglu, Jesse Bennett, Rongxin Yin, Shreya Agarwal, and Thomas W Kirchstetter."Survey and gap prioritization of U.S. electric vehicle charge management deployments." (2024).

2023

Millstein, Dev, Seongeun Jeong, Amos Ancell, and Ryan H Wiser."A database of hourly wind speed and modeled generation for US wind plants based on three meteorological models."Scientific Data 10 (2023). DOI

Brunner, Eric, Ben Hoen, Joseph Rand, and David Schwegman."Commercial Wind Turbines and Residential Home Values: New Evidence from the Universe of Land-Based Wind Projects in the United States."Energy Policy (2023). DOI

Pastor, Angela Ortega, Ashley Books, Naïm R Darghouth, and Dan Gaspar."COP28 Outcomes Report." (2023).

Coalition, UNEP Cool, and Nihar Shah."Keeping it chill: How to meet cooling demand, while cutting emissions." (2023). DOI

Jin, Ling, Xiaodan Xu, Yuhan Wang, Kaveh Farokhi Sadabadi, Alina Lazar, Duleep Rathgamage Don, Zachary Needell, C Anna Spurlock, Mahyar Amirgholy, and Mona Asudegi."Leveraging Probe Data and Machine Learning to Derive and Interpret Macroscopic Fundamental Diagrams Across U.S. Cities."2023 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData) (2023). DOI

Wang, Wenjun, Nina Khanna, Xu Liu, and Jiang Lin."Measurement, reporting and Verification (MRV) of non-CO2 greenhouse gases: International Best Practices and Suggestions for China." (2023).

Forrester, Sydney, Galen L Barbose, Eric O'Shaughnessy, Naïm R Darghouth, and Cristina Crespo Montañés."Residential Solar-Adopter Income and Demographic Trends: 2023 Update." (2023).

de la Rue du Can, Stephane, and Theo Covary."SOUTH AFRICA: FRAMEWORK FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY DEMAND SIDE MANAGEMENT." (2023).

Nelson, Ron, Bradley Cebulko, Thomas Van Hentenryck, Erin Mettler, and Natalie Mims Frick."A Framework for Non-Pipeline Alternatives Analysis and Review of Existing Approaches." (2023).

Wei, Max, Catherine Foster, Tia Tyler, Julie Kim, Ryan Bodanyi, Kaiyu Sun, Henry Willem, Patricia Kusumah, Lino Sanchez, Sang Hoon Lee, Miguel Heleno, Tianzhen Hong, Daniel Dominguez, and Darren Kumar."An Action Plan for Greater Climate Equity for Disadvantaged Communities in Fresno." (2023).