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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2019

Szinai, Julia, Colin Sheppard, Nikit Abhyankar, and Anand R Gopal."Reduced grid operating costs and renewable energy curtailment with electric vehicle charge management."Energy Policy (2019) 111051. DOI

Frick, Natalie Mims, and Lisa C Schwartz."Time-Sensitive Value of Efficiency: Use Cases in Electricity Sector Planning and Programs." (2019).

Barbose, Galen L, and Naïm R Darghouth."Tracking the Sun: Pricing and Design Trends for Distributed Photovoltaic Systems in the United States - 2019 Edition." (2019).

Hoen, Ben, Joseph Rand, and Salma Elmallah."Commercial PV Property Characterization: An Analysis of Solar Deployment Trends in Commercial Real Estate." (2019).

Mills, Andrew D, and Pía Rodriguez."Drivers of the Resource Adequacy Contribution of Solar and Storage for Florida Municipal Utilities." (2019).

Gorman, Will, Andrew D Mills, and Ryan H Wiser."Improving estimates of transmission capital costs for utility-scale wind and solar projects to inform renewable energy policy."Energy Policy (2019). DOI

Eto, Joseph H, and Giulia Gallo."Interregional Transmission Coordination: A review of practices following FERC Order Nos. 890 and 1000." (2019).

Wiser, Ryan H, and Mark Bolinger."Benchmarking Anticipated Wind Project Lifetimes: Results from a Survey of U.S. Wind Industry Professionals." (2019).

McCall, Margaret, and Amol A Phadke."California semi truck electrification: Preliminary assessment of infrastructure needs and cost-benefit analysis." (2019).

Frick, Natalie Mims."End Use Load Profile Inventory." (2019).

Satchwell, Andrew, Peter Cappers, Javier Reneses, Will Gorman, and Greg Leventis."Financial Impacts of Net-Metered DPV on a Prototypical Western Utility’s Shareholders and Ratepayers." (2019).

Sheppard, Colin, Julia Szinai, Nikit Abhyankar, and Anand R Gopal."Grid Impacts of Electric Vehicles and Managed Charging in California." (2019).

Rajagopal, Deepak, and Amol A Phadke."Prioritizing electric miles over electric vehicles will deliver greater benefits at lower cost."Environmental Research Letters 14.9 (2019).

Phadke, Amol A, Won Young Park, and Nikit Abhyankar."Providing reliable and financially sustainable electricity access in India using super-efficient appliances."Energy Policy 132 (2019). DOI

Todd-Blick, Annika, Peter Cappers, C Anna Spurlock, and Ling Jin."Spillover as a cause of bias in baseline evaluation methods for demand response programs."Applied Energy 250 (2019) 344 - 357. DOI

Wiser, Ryan H, and Mark Bolinger."2018 Wind Technologies Market Report." (2019).

Shah, Nihar, Max Wei, Virginie E Letschert, and Amol A Phadke."Benefits of Energy Efficient and Low-Global Warming Potential Refrigerant Cooling Equipment." (2019) 59.

Abhyankar, Nikit, Jiang Lin, Xu Liu, and Froylan Sifuentes."Economic and environmental benefits of market-based power-system reform in China: provincial versus regional grid optimization." (2019).

Bauer, Gordon S, Amol A Phadke, Jeffery B Greenblatt, and Deepak Rajagopal."Electrifying urban ridesourcing fleets at no added cost through efficient use of charging infrastructure."Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 105 (2019). DOI

Darghouth, Naïm R, Galen L Barbose, and Andrew D Mills."Implications of Rate Design for the Customer-Economics of Behind-the-Meter Storage." (2019).

Cappers, Peter, and Sean Murphy."Unpacking the Disconnect Between Wholesale and Retail Electric Rates." (2019).

Haac, Ryan, Ken Kaliski, Matt Landis, Ben Hoen, Joseph Rand, Jeremy Firestone, Debi Elliott, Gundula Hübner, and Johannes Pohl."Wind turbine audibility and noise annoyance in a national U.S. survey: Individual perception and influencing factors."The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 146.1124 (2019). DOI

Satchwell, Andrew, Peter Cappers, and Galen L Barbose."Current Developments in Retail Rate Design: Implications for Solar and Other Distributed Energy Resources." (2019).