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

Khanna, Nina, Jiang Lin, Xu Liu, and Wenjun Wang."An assessment of China’s methane mitigation potential and costs and uncertainties through 2060."Nature Communications 15 (2024).

Gilbert, Ben, Ben Hoen, and Hannah Gagarin."Distributional Equity in the Employment and Wage Impacts of Energy Transitions."Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 11 (2024).

Schwartz, Lisa C, Julieta Giraldez, Cody Davis, Natalie Mims Frick, Samir Succar, and Sean Murphy."DOE Clean Energy Innovator Fellows: Integrated Distribution System Planning." (2024).

Nilson, Robi, Joseph Rand, Ben Hoen, and Salma Elmallah."Halfway up the ladder: Developer practices and perspectives on community engagement for utility-scale renewable energy in the United States."Energy Research & Social Science 117 (2024). DOI

Gorman, Will, Galen L Barbose, Sunhee Baik, Cesca Miller, and Juan Pablo Carvallo."Bill Savings vs. Backup Power: Evaluating operational tradeoffs for home solar+storage systems." (2024).

Glick, Devi, Shelly Kwok, and Juan Pablo Carvallo."Clean Energy Innovator Fellows Training: Integrated Resource Planning." (2024).

Kim, James Hyungkwan, Dev Millstein, Ryan H Wiser, and Julie Mulvaney Kemp."Renewable-Battery Hybrid Power Plants in Congested Electricity Markets: Implications for Plant Configuration."Renewable Energy 232 (2024). DOI

Kahrl, Fredrich, Jennie Jorgenson, James Hyungkwan Kim, Lawryn Kiboma, Dev Millstein, Natalie Mims Frick, and Brian Sergi."Solar and Wind Forecast Error Reserve Sharing in a Multi-Utility Region." (2024).

Seel, Joachim, Julie Mulvaney Kemp, Anna Cheyette, Dev Millstein, Will Gorman, Seongeun Jeong, Dana Robson, Rachman Setiawan, and Mark Bolinger."Utility-Scale Solar, 2024 Edition: Empirical Trends in Deployment, Technology, Cost, Performance, PPA Pricing, and Value in the United States." (2024).

Schwartz, Lisa C."A Framework for Integrated Distribution System Planning." (2024).

Lowry, Mark Newton."Alternative Ratemaking Treatments for Grid Resilience Programs." (2024).

Schwartz, Lisa C, Myles T Collins, Tim Woolf, and Courtney Lane."Best Practices Guide for Benefit-Cost Analysis of Managed EV Charging." (2024).

Relf, Grace, Peter Cappers, Ronny Sandoval, and Myles T Collins."Clean Energy Innovator Fellows Training: Electricity Regulation Basics." (2024).

Krishnamoorthy, Gayathri, Tom Wall, Myles T Collins, and Josh A Schellenberg."Clean Energy Innovator Fellows Training: Grid Resilience Planning." (2024).

Gorman, Will, Galen L Barbose, Cesca Miller, Phillip White, Juan Pablo Carvallo, and Sunhee Baik."Evaluating the potential for solar-plus-storage backup power in the United States as homes integrate efficient, flexible, and electrified energy technologies."Energy 304 (2024). DOI

Gorman, Will, Joseph Rand, Nick Manderlink, Anna Cheyette, Mark Bolinger, Joachim Seel, Seongeun Jeong, and Ryan H Wiser."Hybrid Power Plants: Status of Operating and Proposed Plants, 2024 Edition." (2024).

Pereira, Guillermo, and Lisa C Schwartz."Integrated Distribution System Planning." (2024).

Bracho, Riccardo, Julie Doherty Kowalski, Nina Khanna, Virginie E Letschert, Nicholas DeForest, Rongxin Lin, Keith Kline, Sara Lechtenberg-Kasten, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Loreta Lancellotti, Natalie Kempkey, and Mijal Brady Berkowitz."Leadership and Community Engagement in Chile: Deploying Net-Zero Technologies and Solutions." (2024).

Kahrl, Fredrich, Jennie Jorgenson, Lawryn Kiboma, James Hyungkwan Kim, Dev Millstein, Brian Sergi, and Natalie Mims Frick."Solar and Storage Integration in the Southeastern United States: Economics, Reliability, and Operations." (2024).

Hoen, Ben, James Diffendorfer, Joseph Rand, Louisa Kramer, Chris Garrity, and Hannah Hunt."US Wind Turbine Database Files." (2024). DOI

Pereira, Guillermo, Cynthia Regnier, Lazlo Paul, Marco Pritoni, and Cecilia Johnson."Bringing demand flexibility to market: Insight on emerging business models from U.S. projects." (2024).

Wiser, Ryan H, Dev Millstein, Ben Hoen, Mark Bolinger, Will Gorman, Joseph Rand, Galen L Barbose, Anna Cheyette, Naïm R Darghouth, Seongeun Jeong, Julie Mulvaney Kemp, Eric O'Shaughnessy, Bentham Paulos, and Joachim Seel."Land-Based Wind Market Report: 2024 Edition." (2024).

Miller, Cesca, Andrew Satchwell, and Jenya Kahn-Lang."The Customer Bill Impacts of Efficient Building Electrification."2024 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2024).

Murphy, Sean, Cesca Miller, Jeff Deason, Diana Dombrowski, and Portia Awuah."The State of Demand Flexibility Programs and Rates." (2024).

Barbose, Galen L, Naïm R Darghouth, Eric O'Shaughnessy, and Sydney Forrester."Tracking the Sun: Pricing and Design Trends for Distributed Photovoltaic Systems in the United States, 2024 Edition." (2024).