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

Springer, Cecilia, Sam Evans, Jiang Lin, and David Roland-Holst."Low carbon growth in China: The role of emissions trading in a transitioning economy."Applied Energy 235 (2019). DOI

Wiser, Ryan H, Mark Bolinger, and Eric Lantz."Benchmarking Wind Power Operating Costs in the United States: Results from a Survey of Wind Industry Experts." (2019).

Lin, Jiang, Fredrich Kahrl, Jiahai Yuan, Xu Liu, and Weirong Zhang."Challenges and strategies for electricity market transition in China."Energy Policy 133 (2019) 110899. DOI

Lin, Jiang, Nina Khanna, Xu Liu, Fei Teng, and Xin Wang."China’s Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Future Trajectories and Mitigation Options and Potential."Scientific Reports 9.1 (2019). DOI

Spurlock, C Anna, James Sears, Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, Victor Walker, Ling Jin, Margaret Taylor, Andrew Duvall, Anand R Gopal, and Annika Todd-Blick."Describing the users: Understanding adoption of and interest in shared, electrified, and automated transportation in the San Francisco Bay Area."Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 71 (2019) 283-301. DOI

Lin, Jiang, Fredrich Kahrl, Jiahai Yuan, Qixin Chen, and Xu Liu."Economic and carbon emission impacts of electricity market transition in China: A case study of Guangdong Province."Applied Energy 238 (2019) 1093 - 1107. DOI

Liu, Xu, Jiang Lin, Junfeng Hu, Hongyou Lu, and Jiaru Cai."Economic Transition, Technology Change, and Energy Consumption in China: A Provincial-Level Analysis."Energies 12.13 (2019) 2581. DOI

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) 385 - 404. DOI

Huang, Hai, David Roland-Holst, Cecilia Springer, Jiang Lin, Wenjia Cai, and Can Wang."Emissions Trading Systems and Social Equity: A CGE Assessment for China."Applied Energy 235 (2019) 1254 - 1265. DOI

Dunn, Laurel N, Michael D Sohn, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, and Joseph H Eto."Exploratory analysis of high-resolution power interruption data reveals spatial and temporal heterogeneity in electric grid reliability."Energy Policy 129 (2019) 206 - 214. DOI

Larsen, Peter H, Alan H Sanstad, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, and Joseph H Eto."Frontiers in the Economics of Widespread, Long-Duration Power Interruptions: Proceedings from an Expert Workshop."Frontiers in the Economics of Widespread, Long-Duration Power Interruptions (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) 091001. DOI

Phadke, Amol A, Margaret McCall, and Deepak Rajagopal."Reforming electricity rates to enable economically competitive electric trucking."Environmental Research Letters 14.12 (2019) 124047. DOI

2018

Liu, Shiyu, Zhaohong Bie, Jiang Lin, and Xifan Wang."Curtailment of renewable energy in Northwest China and market-based solutions."Energy Policy 123 (2018) 494 - 502. DOI

Khandekar, Aditya, Deepak Rajagopal, Nikit Abhyankar, Shruti M Deorah, and Amol A Phadke."The Case for All New City Buses in India to be Electric." (2018).

Wolske, Kimberly S, Annika Todd-Blick, Michael Rossol, James McCall, and Benjamin Sigrin."Accelerating demand for residential solar photovoltaics: Can simple framing strategies increase consumer interest?."Global Environmental Change Volume 53.November 2018 (2018) 68-77. DOI

Satchwell, Andrew, Corinne D Scown, Sarah Josephine Smith, Jahon Amirebrahimi, Ling Jin, Thomas W Kirchstetter, Nancy J Brown, and Chelsea V Preble."Accelerating the Deployment of Anaerobic Digestion to Meet Zero Waste Goals."Environmental Science & Technology 52.23 (2018) 13663–13669. DOI

Goldman, Charles A, Sean Murphy, Ian M Hoffman, Natalie Mims Frick, Greg Leventis, and Lisa C Schwartz."The Future of U.S. Electricity Efficiency Programs Funded by Utility Customers: Program Spending and Savings Projections to 2030." (2018).

Barbose, Galen L."U.S. Renewables Portfolio Standards: 2018 Annual Status Report." (2018).

Cappers, Peter, Annika Todd-Blick, and Greg Leventis."Uses for Smart Meter Data Webinar Series." (2018).

Lin, Jiang."China’s electricity switch won’t be swift or painless."Nature 562 (2018). DOI

Wiser, Ryan H, Naïm R Darghouth, Ben Hoen, Galen L Barbose, Joachim Seel, Varun Rai, Ariane Beck, Ashok Sekar, D. D Cale Reeves, Erik Funkhouser, Eric O'Shaughnessy, Ben Sigrin, and Casey Canfield."Diffusion of Innovations: Interplay of Social, Economic, Technological, and Policy Drivers in the Solar Industry—Summary of UT Austin Student Capstone Research Projects." (2018).

Abhyankar, Nikit."Leapfrogging to Electric and Smart Vehicles: Key Challenges and Opportunities." (2018).

Abhyankar, Nikit."The 1,000 Power Plant Question:Cooling the Planet Sustainably." (2018).

Barbose, Galen L, Naïm R Darghouth, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Dev Millstein, and Joseph Rand."Tracking the Sun: Installed Price Trends for Distributed Photovoltaic Systems in the United States - 2018 Edition." (2018).