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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2021

Paulos, Bentham, Sydney Forrester, Eric O'Shaughnessy, Christopher Dyson, Galen L Barbose, and Ryan H Wiser."An Assessment of Evaluation Practices of Low- And Moderate-Income Solar Programs." (2021).

Fowlie, Meredith, Catherine Wolfram, Patrick Baylis, C Anna Spurlock, Annika Todd-Blick, and Peter Cappers."Default Effects and Follow-On Behaviour: Evidence From an Electricity Pricing Program."The Review of Economic Studies 88.6 (2021) 2886–2934. DOI

Frick, Natalie Mims, Elaina Present, Eric Wilson, Anthony Fontanini, Andrew Parker, and Janet Reyna."End-Use Load Profiles for the U.S. Building Stock - Technical Advisory Group presentations." (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

Wiser, Ryan H, Dev Millstein, Joseph Rand, Paul Donohoo-Vallett, Patrick Gilman, and Trieu Mai."Halfway to Zero: Progress towards a Carbon-Free Power Sector." (2021).

Abhyankar, Nikit, Priyanka Mohanty, and Amol A Phadke."Illustrative Strategies for the United States to Achieve 50% Emissions Reduction by 2030." (2021).

Barbose, Galen L, Sydney Forrester, Eric O'Shaughnessy, and Naïm R Darghouth."Residential Solar-Adopter Income and Demographic Trends: 2021 Update." (2021).

Kahrl, Fredrich, and Lisa C Schwartz."All-Source Competitive Solicitations: State and Electric Utility Practices." (2021).

Eckman, Tom, Natalie Mims Frick, Lisa C Schwartz, Jeremy Twitchell, and Alan Cooke."Integrated Resource Planning Training for the South Carolina Office of Regulatory Staff." (2021).

Phadke, Amol A, Aditya Khandekar, Nikit Abhyankar, David Wooley, and Deepak Rajagopal."Why Regional and Long-Haul Trucks are Primed for Electrification Now." (2021).

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

Baik, Sunhee, Nichole L Hanus, Alan H Sanstad, Joseph H Eto, and Peter H Larsen."A Hybrid Approach to Estimating the Economic Value of Enhanced Power System Resilience." (2021).

Woolf, Tim, Ben Havumaki, Divita Bhandari, Melissa Whited, and Lisa C Schwartz."Benefit-Cost Analysis for Utility-Facing Grid Modernization Investments: Trends, Challenges, and Considerations." (2021).

Brooks, Cameron, Peter Cappers, and Andrew Satchwell."Expanding the Scope of Commercial Opportunities for Investor-Owned Electric Utilities." (2021).

Frick, Natalie Mims, Snuller Price, Lisa C Schwartz, Nichole L Hanus, and Ben Shapiro."Locational Value of Distributed Energy Resources." (2021).

Sheppard, Colin, Alan T Jenn, Jeffery B Greenblatt, Gordon S Bauer, and Brian F Gerke."Private versus Shared, Automated Electric Vehicles for U.S. Personal Mobility: Energy Use, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Grid Integration, and Cost Impacts."Environmental Science & Technology (2021). DOI

Mills, Andrew D, Joachim Seel, Dev Millstein, James Hyungkwan Kim, Mark Bolinger, Will Gorman, Yuhan Wang, Seongeun Jeong, and Ryan H Wiser."Solar-to-Grid: Trends in System Impacts, Reliability, and Market Value in the United States with Data Through 2019." (2021).

Cappers, Peter, Andrew Satchwell, Max Dupuy, and Carl Linvill."The Distribution of U.S. Electric Utility Revenue Decoupling Rate Impacts from 2005 to 2017." (2021).

Barbose, Galen L."U.S. Renewables Portfolio Standards 2021 Status Update: Early Release." (2021).

Dalton, Patrick, Mary Ann Piette, Paul De Martini, Fritz Kahrl, Jeremy Twitchell, and Andrew D Mills."Western States Training Webinars on Integrated Distribution System Planning." (2021).

Hu, Junfeng, Qingyou Yan, Fredrich Kahrl, Xu Liu, Peng Wang, and Jiang Lin."Evaluating the ancillary services market for large-scale renewable energy integration in China's northeastern power grid."Utilities Policy 69 (2021) 101179. DOI

Frick, Natalie Mims, Tom Eckman, Greg Leventis, and Alan H Sanstad."Methods to Incorporate Energy Efficiency in Electricity System Planning and Markets." (2021).

Bowen, Thomas, Carishma Gokhale-Welch, Karlynn Cory, and Naïm R Darghouth."Quantifying Rooftop Solar Benefits: a State-Level Value of Solar Analysis for India." (2021).

Kahrl, Fredrich, Jiang Lin, Xu Liu, and Junfeng Hu."Sunsetting coal power in China."iScience 24.9 (2021) 102939. DOI

Langevin, Jared, Chioke B Harris, Aven Satre-Meloy, Handi Chandra Putra, Andrew Speake, Elaina Present, Rajendra Adhikari, Eric Wilson, and Andrew Satchwell."U.S. Building Energy Efficiency and Flexibility as an Electric Grid Resource."SSRN Electronic Journal (2021). DOI