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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2015

Shah, Nihar, Max Wei, Virginie E Letschert, and Amol A Phadke."Benefits of Leapfrogging to Superefficiency and Low Global Warming Potential Refrigerants in Room Air Conditioning." (2015).

De Martini, Paul, Lorenzo Kristov, and Lisa C Schwartz."Distribution Systems in a High Distributed Energy Resources Future."Future Electric Utility Regulation Report Series FEUR Report No. 2 (2015).

Mills, Andrew D, and Joachim Seel."Flexibility Inventory for Western Resource Planners." (2015).

Wu, Grace, Ranjit Deshmukh, Kudakwashe Ndhlukula, Tijana Radojicic, and Jessica Reilly."Renewable Energy Zones for the Africa Clean Energy Corridor." (2015).

Schellenberg, Josh A."Using Customer Reliability Benefits to Support Business Cases for Smart Grid Investments." (2015).

Mai, Trieu, Wesley Cole, Venkat Krishnan, and Mark Bolinger."Impact of Federal Tax Policy on Utility-Scale Solar Deployment Given Financing Interactions." (2015).

Energy, U.S Department of."National Electric Transmission Congestion Study (2015)." (2015).

Feldman, David, Galen L Barbose, Robert Margolis, Mark Bolinger, Donald Chung, Ran Fu, Joachim Seel, Carolyn Davidson, and Ryan H Wiser."Photovoltaic System Pricing Trends: Historical, Recent, and Near-Term Projections." (2015).

Bolinger, Mark, and Joachim Seel."Utility-Scale Solar 2014: An Empirical Analysis of Project Cost, Performance, and Pricing Trends in the United States." (2015).

Schiller, Steven R."WECC/WREGIS EPA’s Clean Power Plan With a Focus on Energy Efficiency and EM&V." (2015).

Schiller, Steven R."WREGIS Energy Efficiency in EPA’s Clean Power Plan: a brief introduction." (2015).

Wiser, Ryan H, Mark Bolinger, Galen L Barbose, Naïm R Darghouth, Ben Hoen, Andrew D Mills, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Dev Millstein, Dana Hansen, Kevin Porter, Rebecca Widiss, Michael Buckley, Frank Oteri, Aaron Smith, and Suzanne Tegen."2014 Wind Technologies Market Report." (2015).

Sullivan, Frost &."Analysis of the US Power Quality Equipment Market." (2015).

Larsen, Peter H, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Joseph H Eto, and James L Sweeney."Assessing Changes in the Reliability of the U.S. Electric Power System." (2015).

Munoz, Francisco D, and Andrew D Mills."Endogenous Assessment of the Capacity Value of Solar PV in Generation Investment Planning Studies."IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy 6.4 (2015). DOI

Schiller, Steven R."IEPEC EPA’s Clean Power Plan With a Focus on Energy Efficiency and EM&V." (2015).

Barbose, Galen L, Naïm R Darghouth, Dev Millstein, Michael Spears, Ryan H Wiser, Michael Buckley, Rebecca Widiss, and Nick Grue."Tracking the Sun VIII: The Installed Price of Residential and Non-Residential Photovoltaic Systems in the United States." (2015).

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." (2015).

Satchwell, Andrew, Peter Cappers, Lisa C Schwartz, and Emily Martin Fadrhonc."A Framework for Organizing Current and Future Electric Utility Regulatory and Business Models." (2015).

Bolinger, Mark, and Edward Holt."A Survey of State and Local PV Program Response to Financial Innovation and Disparate Federal Tax Treatment in the Residential PV Sector." (2015).

Cappers, Peter, Liesel Hans, and Richard M Scheer."American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009: Interim Report on Customer Acceptance, Retention, and Response to Time-Based Rates from the Consumer Behavior Studies." (2015).

Gopal, Anand R, Maggie Witt, Nikit Abhyankar, Colin Sheppard, and Andrew Harris."Battery electric vehicles can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and make renewable energy cheaper in India." (2015).

Vitina, Aisma, Silke Lüers, Anna-Kathrin Wallasch, Volker Berkhout, Aidan Duffy, Brendan Cleary, Lief I Husabø, David E Weir, Roberto Lacal-Arántegui, M Maureen Hand, Eric Lantz, Kathy Belyeu, Ryan H Wiser, Mark Bolinger, and Ben Hoen."IEA Wind Task 26: Wind Technology, Cost, and Performance Trends in Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Norway, the European Union, and the United States: 2007–2012." (2015).

Todd-Blick, Annika, Michael Perry, Brian Smith, Michael J Sullivan, Peter Cappers, and Charles A Goldman."Insights from Smart Meters: Ramp-up, dependability, and short-term persistence of savings from Home Energy Reports." (2015).

Mills, Andrew D, and Ryan H Wiser."Strategies to mitigate declines in the economic value of wind and solar at high penetration in California."Applied Energy 147 (2015) 269 - 278. DOI