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

LaCommare, Kristina Hamachi, Peter H Larsen, and Joseph H Eto."Evaluating Proposed Investments in Power System Reliability and Resilience: Preliminary Results from Interviews with Public Utility Commission Staff." (2017).

Darghouth, Naïm R, Galen L Barbose, Andrew D Mills, Ryan H Wiser, Pieter Gagnon, and Lori Bird."Exploring Demand Charge Savings from Residential Solar." (2017).

Hoen, Ben, Joseph Rand, and Sandra Adomatis."Leasing Into the Sun A Mixed Method Analysis of Transactions of Homes with Third Party Owned Solar." (2017).

Larsen, Peter H, Brent Boehlert, Joseph H Eto, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Jeremy Martinich, and Lisa Rennels."Projecting Future Costs to U.S. Electric Utility Customers from Power Interruptions." (2017).

Barbose, Galen L."Putting the Potential Rate Impacts of Distributed Solar into Context." (2017).

Millstein, Dev, Ryan H Wiser, Mark Bolinger, and Galen L Barbose."The Health and Environmental Benefits of Wind and Solar Energy in the United States, 2007-2015." (2017).

Hoffman, Ian M, Greg Leventis, and Charles A Goldman."Trends in the Program Administrator Cost of Saving Electricity for Utility Customer-Funded Energy Efficiency Programs." (2017).

Abhyankar, Nikit, Nihar Shah, Won Young Park, and Amol A Phadke."Accelerating Energy Efficiency Improvements in Room Air Conditioners in India: Potential, Costs-Benefits, and Policies." (2017).

Abhyankar, Nikit, Nihar Shah, Amol A Phadke, and Won Young Park."Technical and Economic Aspects of Designing an Efficient Room Air-Conditioner Program in India." (2017).

2016

Mai, Trieu, Ryan H Wiser, Galen L Barbose, Lori Bird, Jenny Heeter, David Keyser, Venkat Krishnan, Jordan Macknick, and Dev Millstein."A Prospective Analysis of the Costs, Benefits, and Impacts of U.S. Renewable Portfolio Standards." (2016). DOI

Stukel, Laura, Ben Hoen, Sandra Adomatis, Craig Foley, and Laura Parsons."Capturing the Sun: A Roadmap for Navigating Data-Access Challenges and Auto-Populating Solar Home Sales Listings." (2016).

Park, Won Young, Anand R Gopal, and Amol A Phadke."Energy savings opportunities in the global digital television transition."Energy Efficiency (2016). DOI

Schiller, Steven R, Lisa Skumatz, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Jessica Burdette, and Matt Klucher."Evaluating and Quantifying the Non-Energy Impacts of Energy Efficiency."Energy Efficiency EM&V Webinar Series (2016).

Dennis, Jeffery S, Suedeen G Kelly, Robert R Nordhaus, and Douglas W Smith."Federal/State Jurisdictional Split: Implications for Emerging Electricity Technologies." (2016).

Larsen, Peter H, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Joseph H Eto, and James L Sweeney."Recent trends in power system reliability and implications for evaluating future investments in resiliency."Energy 117 (2016) 29 - 46. DOI

Phadke, Amol A, Nikit Abhyankar, and Ranjit Deshmukh."Techno-Economic Assessment of Integrating 175GW of Renewable Energy into the Indian Grid by 2022." (2016).

Cappers, Peter, and Rich Scheer."American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009: Final Report on Customer Acceptance, Retention, and Response to Time-Based Rates from Consumer Behavior Studies." (2016).

Leventis, Greg, Emily Martin Fadrhonc, Chris Kramer, and Charles A Goldman."Current Practices in Efficiency Financing: An Overview for State and Local Governments." (2016).

Lin, Jiang, Xu Liu, and Fredrich Kahrl."Excess Capacity in China's Power Systems: A Regional Analysis." (2016).

Mills, Evan, and Richard B Jones."An Insurance Perspective on U.S. Electric Grid Disruption Costs."The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice 41.4 (2016) 555 - 586. DOI

Lin, Jiang, Ryan H Wiser, Wei Feng, and Chris Marnay."Distributed Generation: Trends and Solutions in US." (2016).

Wiser, Ryan H, Karen Jenni, Joachim Seel, Erin Baker, M Maureen Hand, Eric Lantz, and Aaron Smith."Expert elicitation survey on future wind energy costs."Nature Energy 1.10 (2016) 16135. DOI

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Peter H Larsen, Alan H Sanstad, and Charles A Goldman."Load Forecasting in Electric Utility Integrated Resource Planning." (2016).

Schiller, Steven R, Tom Short, Jim Parks, and Josh Rushton."Opportunities and EM&V for Improving Electricity Distribution Efficiency."Energy Efficiency EM&V Webinar Series (2016).

Schwartz, Lisa C."Overview of Distribution Planning Efforts."Grid Modernization: Distribution Planning Workshop, Minnesota PUC (2016).