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

Park, Won Young, Nihar Shah, and Amol A Phadke."Enabling access to household refrigeration services through cost reductions from energy efficiency improvements."Energy Efficiency (2019). DOI

Barbose, Galen L."U.S. Renewables Portfolio Standards: 2019 Annual Status Update." (2019).

Schneider, Kevin, Juliet Homer, and Galen L Barbose."Utah Public Service Commission Workshop on Distributed-Solar Grid Impacts." (2019).

Phadke, Amol A, and Elif Tasar."Working Paper 004: Big Batteries on Wheels - The economic, environmental, and resilience case for rapidly converting diesel locomotives to battery-electric." (2019).

Letschert, Virginie E, Nihar Shah, Won Young Park, Nihan Karali, Ambereen Shaffie, Sarah K Price, Nikit Abhyankar, Ari Darmawan Pasek, Edi Sartono, Hari Kusmardianto, and Andi Novianto."Accelerating Cooling Efficiency in Indonesia." (2019).

de la Rue du Can, Stephane, Lynn K Price, Nan Zhou, and Amol A Phadke."China and India: Energy Service and Related Material Demand Projections."38th International Energy Workshop (2019).

Leventis, Greg, and Lisa C Schwartz."Commercial PACE Financing and the Special Assessment Process: Understanding Roles and Managing Risks for Local Governments." (2019).

Chaianong, Aksornchan, Athikom Bangviwat, Christoph Menke, and Naïm R Darghouth."Cost–Benefit Analysis of Rooftop PV Systems on Utilities and Ratepayers in Thailand."Energies 12.12 (2019). DOI

Bird, Lori, Priya Barua, Heidi Bishop Ratz, Celina Bonugli, Steve Chriss, and Lisa C Schwartz."Renewable Energy Options for Large Utility Customers." (2019).

Tongsopit, Sopitsuda, Supawan Saelim, Thanawat Keereepart, Naïm R Darghouth, Alexandra Aznar, Eric O’Shaughnessy, and Surachai Chaitusaney."Distributed Photovoltaic Economic and Technical Impact Analysis in the Philippines." (2019).

Millstein, Dev, James McCall, Jordan Macknick, Scott Nicholson, David Keyser, Seongeun Jeong, and Garvin A Heath."GeoVision Analysis Supporting Task Force Report: Impacts." (2019).

Deshmukh, Ranjit, Grace Wu, Duncan S Callaway, and Amol A Phadke."Geospatial and techno-economic analysis of wind and solar resources in India." (2019).

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).

Elliot, Randolph, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, Organization of MISO States, Scott Aaronson, Edison Electric Institute, National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates, and Lisa C Schwartz."Utility Investments in Resilience of Electricity Systems."Future Electric Utility Regulation Report Series FEUR Report No. 11 (2019).

."Assessment of Historical Transmission Congestion in the Eastern Interconnection for 2015 (v2.0)." (2019).

Eto, Joseph H, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Heidemarie C Caswell, and David Till."Distribution system versus bulk power system: identifying the source of electric service interruptions in the US."IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution 13.5 (2019) 717-723. DOI

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Sean Murphy, Elizabeth Stuart, Peter H Larsen, and Charles A Goldman."Evaluating project level investment trends for the U.S. ESCO industry: 1990-2017."Energy Policy 130.July 2019 (2019) 139-161. DOI

Lazar, Alina, Ling Jin, C Anna Spurlock, Kesheng Wu, Alex Sim, and Annika Todd-Blick."Evaluating the Effects of Missing Values and Mixed Data Types on Social Sequence Clustering Using t-SNE Visualization."Journal of Data and Information Quality 11.2 (2019) 1 - 22. DOI

Schwartz, Lisa C, and Natalie Mims Frick."Evolving Approaches to Electricity System Planning." (2019).

Schneider, Kevin, Emma M Stewart, Barry Mather, Kevin McCabe, Mike Coddington, Joseph H Eto, Lisa C Schwartz, Juliet Homer, Tim Woolf, Paul De Martini, Debra Lew, and Lavelle Freeman."Mid-Atlantic Distribution Systems and Planning Training." (2019).

de la Rue du Can, Stephane, Aditya Khandekar, Nikit Abhyankar, Nina Khanna, David Fridley, Nan Zhou, and Amol A Phadke."Modeling India’s energy future using a bottom-up approach."Applied Energy 238 (2019). DOI

Hanus, Nichole L, Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, Parth T Vaishnav, Naïm R Darghouth, and Inês Lima Azevedo."Solar PV as a mitigation strategy for the US education sector."Environmental Research Letters 14.4 (2019).

Smith, Kevin J, and Dayton Griffin."Supersized Wind Turbine Blade Study: R&D Pathways for Supersized Wind Turbine Blades." (2019).

Frick, Natalie Mims, and Lisa C Schwartz."Buildings-to-Grid: Critical Issues for Decision Makers." (2019).

Karali, Nihan, Nikit Abhyankar, Ben Sharpe, and Anup Bandivadekar."Improving fuel efficiency for heavy-duty vehicles of 3.5–12 tonnes in India: Benefits, costs, and environmental impacts." (2019).