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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Brown, Jason P, John Pender, Ryan H Wiser, Eric Lantz, and Ben Hoen."Ex Post Analysis of Economic Impacts from Wind Power Development in U.S. Counties."Energy Economics 34.6 (2012). DOI

Feldman, David, Galen L Barbose, Robert Margolis, Ryan H Wiser, Naïm R Darghouth, and Alan Goodrich."Photovoltaic (PV) Pricing Trends: Historical, Recent, and Near-Term Projections." (2012).

Borgeson, Merrian."Review of Self-direct Demand Side Management (DSM) Programs." (2012).

Darghouth, Naïm R, Galen L Barbose, and Ryan H Wiser."The Potential Impact of Increased Renewable Energy Penetration Levels on Electricity Bill Savings From Residential Photovoltaic Systems."31st USAEE/IAEE North American Conference (2012).

Barbose, Galen L, Naïm R Darghouth, and Ryan H Wiser."Tracking the Sun V An Historical Summary of the Installed Price of Photovoltaics in the United States from 1998 to 2011." (2012).

Cappers, Peter, Andrew D Mills, Charles A Goldman, Ryan H Wiser, and Joseph H Eto."An assessment of the role mass market demand response could play in contributing to the management of variable generation integration issues."Energy Policy 48 (2012) 420 - 429. DOI

Brown, Jason P, John Pender, Ryan H Wiser, Eric Lantz, and Ben Hoen."The Impact of Wind Development on County-Level Income and Employment: A Review of Methods and an Empirical Analysis (Fact Sheet)." (2012).

Saxena, Samveg, Iván Dario Bedoya, Nihar Shah, and Amol A Phadke."Understanding Loss Mechanisms and Efficiency Improvement Options for HCCI Engines Using Detailed Exergy Analysis." (2012). DOI

Wiser, Ryan H, Mark Bolinger, Galen L Barbose, Naïm R Darghouth, Ben Hoen, Andrew D Mills, Kevin Porter, Michael Buckley, Sari Fink, Frank Oteri, and Suzanne Tegen."2011 Wind Technologies Market Report." (2012).

Zimring, Mark, and Merrian Borgeson."Aggregating QECB Allocations and Using QECBs to Support the Private Sector: A Case Study on Massachusetts." (2012).

Larsen, Peter H, Charles A Goldman, Donald Gilligan, and Terry E Singer."Incorporating Non-energy Benefits into Energy Savings Performance Contracts."2012 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2012).

Borgeson, Merrian, Mark Zimring, and Charles A Goldman."The Limits of Financing for Energy Efficiency."ACEEE Summer Study on Building and Energy Efficiency (2012).

Eto, Joseph H, and Kristina Hamachi LaCommare."A Quantitative Assessment of Utility Reporting Practices for Reporting Electric Power Distribution Events."IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (2012). DOI

Sahai, Rashmi, Nihar Shah, and Amol A Phadke."Addressing Water Consumption of Evaporative Coolers with Greywater." (2012).

Larsen, Peter H, Charles A Goldman, and Andrew Satchwell."Evolution of the U.S. Energy Service Company Industry: Market Size and Project Performance from 1990-2008." (2012).

Zimring, Mark, Brandon Belford, John Cross, Tom Blair, Adam Agalloco, and Molly Lunn."Making it Easier to Complete Clean Energy Projects with QECBs." (2012).

Zimring, Mark, and Merrian Borgeson."Qualified Energy Conservation Bond (QECB) Update: New Guidance from the U.S. Department of Treasury and Internal Revenue Service." (2012).

Zimring, Mark, and Merrian Borgeson."Using QECBs for Public Building Upgrades: Reducing Energy Bills in the City of Philadelphia." (2012).

Zimring, Mark, and Merrian Borgeson."Using QECBs for Street Lighting Upgrades: Lighting the Way to Lower Energy Bills in San Diego." (2012).

Mills, Andrew D, and Ryan H Wiser."Changes in the Economic Value of Variable Generation at High Penetration Levels: A Pilot Case Study of California." (2012).

Hoen, Ben, Ryan H Wiser, Mark A Thayer, and Peter Cappers."Do PV systems increase residential selling prices? If so, how can practitioners estimate this increase?."2012 38th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (2012) 001774 - 001777. DOI

Ardani, Kristen, Galen L Barbose, Robert Margolis, and David Feldman."Quantifying non-hardware balance of system costs for photovoltaic installations in the United States using a combined annual expenditure-labor hour productivity approach."2012 38th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (2012) 001762 - 001767. DOI

Todd-Blick, Annika, Elizabeth Stuart, Steven R Schiller, and Charles A Goldman."Evaluation, Measurement, and Verification (EM&V) of Residential Behavior-Based Energy Efficiency Programs: Issues and Recommendations." (2012).

Lantz, Eric, Ryan H Wiser, M Maureen Hand, Athanasia Arapogianni, Alberto Ceña, Emilien Simonot, and Edward James-Smith."IEA Wind Task 26: The Past And Future Cost Of Wind Energy." (2012).

Zimring, Mark, Merrian Borgeson, Ian M Hoffman, Charles A Goldman, Elizabeth Stuart, Annika Todd-Blick, and Megan A Billingsley."Alternative Underwriting Criteria — Using Utility Bill Payment History as a Proxy for Credit: Case Study on Clean Energy Works Oregon." (2012).