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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2016

Lin, Jiang, and Andrew Satchwell."Toward future's clean power system: lessons from the past." (2016).

Larsen, Peter H."A Method to Estimate the Costs and Benefits of Undergrounding Electricity Transmission and Distribution lines."Energy Economics 60.November 2016 (2016) 47-61. DOI

Eto, Joseph H."Building Electric Transmission Lines: A Review of Recent Regional Transmission Plans." (2016).

Eto, Joseph H."Building Electric Transmission Lines: A Review of Recent Transmission Projects." (2016).

Schiller, Steven R, C Anna Spurlock, Annika Todd-Blick, and Bill Saxonis."Evaluation of Residential Behavior-Based Programs."Energy Efficiency EM&V Webinar Series (2016).

Cappers, Peter, C Anna Spurlock, Annika Todd-Blick, and Ling Jin."Experiences of Vulnerable Residential Customer Subpopulations with Critical Peak Pricing." (2016).

Jin, Ling, C Anna Spurlock, Sam Borgeson, Daniel Fredman, Liesel Hans, Siddharth Patel, and Annika Todd-Blick."Load Shape Clustering Using Residential Smart Meter Data: a Technical Memorandum." (2016).

Kahrl, Fredrich, Andrew D Mills, Luke Lavin, Nancy Ryan, Arne Olsen, and Lisa C Schwartz."The Future of Electricity Resource Planning."Future Electric Utility Regulation Report Series FEUR Report No. 6 (2016).

O'Shaughnessy, Eric, Gregory Nemet, and Naïm R Darghouth."Using the Spatial Distribution of Installers to Define Solar Photovoltaic Markets." (2016).

Nemet, Gregory, Eric O'Shaughnessy, Ryan H Wiser, Naïm R Darghouth, Galen L Barbose, Kenneth Gillingham, and Varun Rai."What Factors Affect the Prices of Low-Priced U.S. Solar PV Systems?." (2016).

Wiser, Ryan H, Mark Bolinger, Galen L Barbose, Naïm R Darghouth, Ben Hoen, Andrew D Mills, Joseph Rand, Dev Millstein, Kevin Porter, Rebecca Widiss, Frank Oteri, Suzanne Tegen, and Tian Tian."2015 Wind Technologies Market Report." (2016).

Mills, Andrew D, Galen L Barbose, Joachim Seel, Changgui Dong, Trieu Mai, Ben Sigrin, and Jarett Zuboy."Planning for a Distributed Disruption: Innovative Practices for Incorporating Distributed Solar into Utility Planning." (2016).

Schwartz, Lisa C."Rate Design: Trends and Perspectives." (2016).

Schiller, Steven R, Robert G Ozar, Carmen Best, and Jeff Harris."Setting Baselines for Planning and Evaluation of Efficiency Programs."Energy Efficiency EM&V Webinar Series (2016).

Barbose, Galen L, Naïm R Darghouth, Dev Millstein, Sarah Cates, Nicholas DiSanti, and Rebecca Widiss."Tracking the Sun IX: The Installed Price of Residential and Non-Residential Photovoltaic Systems in the United States." (2016).

Eto, Joseph H, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Michael D Sohn, and Heidemarie C Caswell."Evaluating the Performance of the IEEE Standard 1366 Method for Identifying Major Event Days View Document."IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 32.2 (2016). DOI

Schellenberg, Josh A, Barney Speckman, and Joseph H Eto."Integrating customer interruption costs into outage management systems."IEEE Transmission and Distribution Conference (2016). DOI

Lantz, Eric, Trieu Mai, Ryan H Wiser, and Venkat Krishnan."Long-term implications of sustained wind power growth in the United States: Direct electric system impacts and costs."Applied Energy 179.1 October 2016 (2016) 832-846. DOI

Wiser, Ryan H, Mark Bolinger, Garvin A Heath, David Keyser, Eric Lantz, Jordan Macknick, Trieu Mai, and Dev Millstein."Long-term implications of sustained wind power growth in the United States: Potential benefits and secondary impacts."Applied Energy 179.1 October 2016 (2016) 146-158. DOI

Wiser, Ryan H, Dev Millstein, Trieu Mai, Jordan Macknick, Alberta Carpenter, Stuart Cohen, Wesley Cole, Bethany Frew, and Garvin A Heath."The environmental and public health benefits of achieving high penetrations of solar energy in the United States."Energy 113.15 October 2016 (2016) 472-486. DOI

Kihm, Steve, Andrew Satchwell, and Peter Cappers."The Financial Impacts of Declining Investment Opportunities on Electric Utility Shareholders." (2016).

Shah, Nihar, Nikit Abhyankar, Won Young Park, Amol A Phadke, Saurabh Diddi, Deepanshu Ahuja, P.K Mukherjee, and Archana Walia."Cost-Benefit of Improving the Efficiency of Room Air Conditioners (Inverter and Fixed Speed) in India." (2016).

Deason, Jeff, Greg Leventis, Charles A Goldman, and Juan Pablo Carvallo."Energy Efficiency Program Financing: Where it comes from, where it goes, and how it gets there." (2016).

Wiser, Ryan H, Karen Jenni, Joachim Seel, Erin Baker, M Maureen Hand, Eric Lantz, and Aaron Smith."Forecasting Wind Energy Costs and Cost Drivers: The Views of the World’s Leading Experts." (2016).

Wood, Lisa, Ross Hemphill, John Howat, Ralph Cavanagh, Severin Borenstein, Jeff Deason, Lisa C Schwartz, and Lisa C Schwartz."Recovery of Utility Fixed Costs: Utility, Consumer, Environmental and Economist Perspectives."Future Electric Utility Regulation Report Series FEUR Report No. 5 (2016).