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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2017

Schiller, Steven R, Greg Leventis, Tom Eckman, and Sean Murphy."SEE Action Guide for States: Guidance on Establishing and Maintaining Technical Reference Manuals for Energy Efficiency Measures." (2017).

Rand, Joseph, and Ben Hoen."Thirty years of North American wind energy acceptance research: What have we learned?."Energy Research & Social Science 29.July 2017 (2017) 135-148. DOI

Frick, Natalie Mims, Tom Eckman, and Charles A Goldman."Time-varying value of electric energy efficiency." (2017).

Schiller, Steven R, Michael Li, Arlis Reynolds, Ellen Fraconi, and Tim Guiterman."Advances in Efficiency EM&V - DOE’s Uniform Methods Project and M&V 2.0." (2017).

Hoffman, Ian M, Charles A Goldman, Gregory M Rybka, Greg Leventis, Lisa C Schwartz, Alan H Sanstad, and Steven R Schiller."Estimating the cost of saving electricity through U.S. utility customer-funded energy efficiency programs."Energy Policy 104 (2017) 1-12. DOI

Frick, Natalie Mims, Tom Eckman, and Andrew Satchwell."Integrated Resource Planning: Technical Assistance to the Michigan Public Service Commission." (2017).

Kihm, Steve, Janice Beecher, Ronald Lehr, and Lisa C Schwartz."Regulatory Incentives and Disincentives for Utility Investments in Grid Modernization."Future Electric Utility Regulation Report Series FEUR Report No. 8 (2017).

Nemet, Gregory, Eric O’Shaughnessy, Ryan H Wiser, Naïm R Darghouth, Galen L Barbose, Ken Gillingham, and Varun Rai."Sources of Price Dispersion in U.S. Residential Solar Installations." (2017).

Abhyankar, Nikit, Anand R Gopal, Colin Sheppard, Won Young Park, and Amol A Phadke."Techno-Economic Assessment of Deep Electrification of Passenger Vehicles in India." (2017).

Frick, Natalie Mims, Steven R Schiller, Elizabeth Stuart, Lisa C Schwartz, Chris Kramer, and Richard Faesy."Evaluation of U.S. Building Energy Benchmarking and Transparency Programs: Attributes, Impacts, and Best Practices." (2017).

Satchwell, Andrew, Peter Cappers, and Charles A Goldman."Financial Impacts of a Combined Energy Efficiency and Net-Metered PV Portfolio on a Prototypical Northeast Utility." (2017).

Schiller, Steven R, Jennifer Potter, David Kathan, Mark S Martinez, and Peter Langbein."Introduction to Wholesale and Retail Demand Response with a Focus on Measurement and Verification." (2017).

Deshmukh, Ranjit, Grace Wu, and Amol A Phadke."Renewable Energy Zones for Balancing Siting Trade-offs in India: Multi-Criteria Analysis for Planning Renewable Energy." (2017).

Larsen, Peter H, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Charles A Goldman, Sean Murphy, and Elizabeth Stuart."Updated Estimates of the Remaining Market Potential of the U.S. ESCO Industry." (2017).

Moné, Christopher, M Maureen Hand, Mark Bolinger, Joseph Rand, Donna Heimiller, and Jonathan Ho."2015 Cost of Wind Energy Review." (2017).

Potter, Jennifer, Jeff Deason, and Lisa C Schwartz."Adopting Energy-Efficient Technologies for Street Lighting: Overcoming Challenges for Utilities." (2017).

Cutter, Eric, Kiran Chawla, and Ian M Hoffman."Better Buildings Residential Energy Efficiency Cost-Effectiveness Tool Version 2.0." (2017).

Rai, Varun, Rahul Tongia, Gireesh Shrimali, and Nikit Abhyankar."Data for development: The case for an Indian energy information administration."Energy Research & Social Science 25.March 2017 (2017). DOI

Wiser, Ryan H, Galen L Barbose, and Mark Bolinger."Retail Rate Impacts of Renewable Electricity: Some First Thoughts." (2017).

Glazer, Craig, Jay Morrison, Paul Breakman, Allison Clements, National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates, and Lisa C Schwartz."The Future of Centrally-Organized Wholesale Electricity Markets."Future Electric Utility Regulation Report Series FEUR Report No. 7 (2017).

Bolinger, Mark."Using Probability of Exceedance to Compare the Resource Risk of Renewable and Gas-Fired Generation." (2017).

Hoffman, Ian M."Gauging the Impact of Various Definitions of Low- and Moderate-Income Communities on Possible Electricity Savings From Weatherization." (2017).

Deason, Jeff, Lisa C Schwartz, Natalie Mims Frick, and Jennifer Potter."Regulatory Issues and Approaches to Municipal LED Street Lighting Conversions." (2017).

Schiller, Steven R, Michael Li, Molly Cripps, Rodney Sobin, Peter L Therkelsen, and Elizabeth Stuart."Consistency and Coordination of Energy Efficiency EM&V and Reporting."Energy Efficiency EM&V Webinar Series (2017).

Schwartz, Lisa C, Max Wei, William R Morrow III, Jeff Deason, Steven R Schiller, Greg Leventis, Sarah Josephine Smith, Woei Ling Leow, Todd Levin, Steven Plotkin, Yan Zhou, and Joseph Teng."Electricity end uses, energy efficiency, and distributed energy resources baseline." (2017).