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

Darghouth, Naïm R, Ryan H Wiser, Galen L Barbose, and Andrew D Mills."Net metering and market feedback loops: Exploring the impact of retail rate design on distributed PV deployment."Applied Energy 162 (2016). DOI

Lowry, Mark Newton, Tim Woolf, and Lisa C Schwartz."Performance-Based Regulation in a High Distributed Energy Resources Future."Future Electric Utility Regulation Report Series FEUR Report No. 3 (2016).

Fadrhonc, Emily Martin, Jeff Deason, Liesel Hans, Ben Hoen, Steven R Schiller, and Lisa C Schwartz."Residential Property Assessed Clean Energy in California: Feasibility of Studying Impacts on Mortgage Performance and Energy Savings." (2016).

Schiller, Steven R, and Lisa C Schwartz."Coordinating Demand-Side Efficiency Evaluation, Measurement and Verification Among Western States: Options for Documenting Energy and Non- Energy Impacts for the Power Sector." (2016).

Schiller, Steven R, Lisa C Schwartz, Deborah Reynolds, Stacey Donohue, Kamran Khan, John Goodin, Tina Jayaweera, and Alaine Ginocchio."Coordinating Energy Efficiency (EE) and Demand Response (DR) Evaluation, Measurement and Verification (EM&V) Among Western State Agencies." (2016).

Spurlock, C Anna, Peter Cappers, Ling Jin, Annika Todd-Blick, and Patrick Baylis."Go for the Silver? Evidence from field studies quantifying the difference in evaluation results between “gold standard” randomized controlled trial methods versus quasi-experimental methods."2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2016).

Patel, Siddharth, Sam Borgeson, Ram Rajagopal, C Anna Spurlock, Ling Jin, and Annika Todd-Blick."Time Will Tell: Using Smart Meter Time Series Data to Derive Household Features and Explain Heter ogeneity in Pricing Programs."2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2016).

Stuart, Elizabeth, Peter H Larsen, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Charles A Goldman, and Donald Gilligan."U.S. Energy Service Company (ESCO) Industry: Recent Market Trends." (2016).

Bolinger, Mark, and Joachim Seel."Utility-Scale Solar 2015: An Empirical Analysis of Project Cost, Performance, and Pricing Trends in the United States." (2016).

2015

Barbose, Galen L, Lori Bird, Jenny Heeter, Francisco Flores, and Ryan H Wiser."Costs and Benefits of Renewables Portfolio Standards in the United States."Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 52 (2015) 523-533. DOI

Schiller, Steven R."Demand Side Efficiency EM&V and the Clean Power Plan: Presentation #1- Basics of EE, EM&V and the CPP." (2015).

Schiller, Steven R."Demand Side Efficiency EM&V and the Clean Power Plan: Presentation #2- EE EM&V and the CPP." (2015).

Schiller, Steven R."Energy Efficiency EM&V Basics and Issues." (2015).

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Peter H Larsen, and Charles A Goldman."Estimating customer electricity and fuel savings from projects installed by the US ESCO industry."Energy Efficiency 8.6 (2015) 1251-1261. DOI

Nexant, Nexant."ICE Calculator Case Study: EPB Chattanooga Distribution Automation." (2015).

Kramer, Chris, Emily Martin Fadrhonc, Charles A Goldman, Steven R Schiller, and Lisa C Schwartz."Making it Count: Understanding the Value of Energy Efficiency Financing Programs Funded by Utility Customers." (2015).

Arreola, Georgina, Timothy Treadwell, and Ben Hoen."Survey of Buyers, Sellers and Realtors Involved In San Diego Third-Party Owned Solar Home Transactions – A Qualitative Assessment." (2015).

Kihm, Steve, Andrew Satchwell, and Peter Cappers."The Effects of Rising Interest Rates on Electric Utility Stock Prices: Regulatory Considerations and Approaches." (2015).

Adomatis, Sandra, and Ben Hoen."Appraising into the Sun: Six-State Solar Home Paired-Sales Analysis." (2015).

Stuart, Elizabeth."Capturing Energy Efficiency in Residential Real Estate Transactions." (2015).

Schiller, Steven R."Demand-Side Energy Efficiency in EPA’s Clean Power Plan." (2015).

Corneli, Steve, Steve Kihm, and Lisa C Schwartz."Electric Industry Structure and Regulatory Responses in a High Distributed Energy Resources Future."Future Electric Utility Regulation Report Series FEUR Report No. 1 (2015).

Rybka, Gregory M, Ian M Hoffman, Charles A Goldman, and Lisa C Schwartz."Flexible and Consistent Reporting for Energy Efficiency Programs: Introducing a New Tool for Reporting Spending and Savings for Programs Funded by Utility Customers." (2015).

Nexant, Nexant."ICE Calculator Case Study: CMP Distribution Automation." (2015).

Wiser, Ryan H, Eric Lantz, Trieu Mai, Jose Zayas, Edgar A DeMeo, Ed Eugeni, Jessica Lin-Powers, and Richard Tusing."Wind Vision: A New Era for Wind Power in the United States."The Electricity Journal 28.9 (2015). DOI