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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2011

Larsen, Peter H."Energy Service Company (ESCO) Project Performance Benchmarking Fact Sheets." (2011).

Sathaye, Jayant A, Larry L Dale, Peter H Larsen, Gary A Fitts, Kevin Koy, Sarah M Lewis, and André Frossard Pereira de Lucena."Estimating Risk to California Energy Infrastructure From Projected Climate Change." (2011).

Mills, Andrew D, and Ryan H Wiser."Implications of geographic diversity for short-term variability and predictability of solar power."2011 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (2011) 1 - 9. DOI

Wiser, Ryan H, Galen L Barbose, and Edward Holt."Supporting solar power in renewables portfolio standards: Experience from the United States."Energy Policy 39.7 (2011) 3894 - 3905. DOI

Hoffman, Ron, Roger Levy, and Karen Herter."Technical Options to Address Cyber Security, Interoperability and Other Issues with ZigBee SEP." (2011).

Wiser, Ryan H, Mark Bolinger, Naïm R Darghouth, Kevin Porter, Michael Buckley, Sari Fink, Russell Raymond, Frank Oteri, Galen L Barbose, Joachim Seel, Andrew D Mills, and Ben Hoen."2010 Wind Technologies Market Report." (2011) 98.

Lazo, Jeffery K, Megan Lawson, Peter H Larsen, and Donald M Waldman."U.S. Economic Sensitivity to Weather Variability."Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (2011). DOI

Zimring, Mark."Using Qualified Energy Conservation Bonds (QECBs) to Fund a Residential Energy Efficiency Loan Program: Case Study on Saint Louis County, MO." (2011) 7.

Hoen, Ben, Ryan H Wiser, Peter Cappers, and Mark A Thayer."Do Photovoltaic Energy Systems Affect Residential Selling Prices? Results from a California Statewide Investigation."40th Annual National Solar Conference (Solar 2011) (2011).

Hoen, Ben, Peter Cappers, Ryan H Wiser, and Mark A Thayer."An Analysis of the Effects of Photovoltaic Energy Systems on Residential Selling Prices in California."American Real Estate Society Annual Conference (2011).

Hoen, Ben, Ryan H Wiser, Peter Cappers, and Mark A Thayer."An Analysis of the Effects of Residential Photovoltaic Energy Systems on Home Sales Prices in California." (2011) 60.

Schiller, Steven R, Charles A Goldman, and Elsia Galawish."National Energy Efficiency Evaluation, Measurement and Verification (EM&V) Standard: Scoping Study of Issues and Implementation Requirements." (2011) 80.

Zimring, Mark."Austin’s Home Performance with Energy Star Program: Making a Compelling Offer to a Financial Institution Partner."Clean Energy Program Policy Brief (2011) 4.

Satchwell, Andrew, Peter Cappers, and Charles A Goldman."Carrots and Sticks: A Comprehensive Business Model for the Successful Achievement of Energy Efficiency Resource Standards."ECEEE Summer Study, Giens, France, June 6-11, 2011 (2011) 24.

Mills, Andrew D, Amol A Phadke, and Ryan H Wiser."Exploration of resource and transmission expansion decisions in the Western Renewable Energy Zone initiative."Energy Policy 39.3 (2011) 1732 - 1745. DOI

Goldman, Charles A, Elizabeth Stuart, Ian M Hoffman, Merrian C Fuller, Megan A Billingsley, and Merrian Borgeson."Interactions between Energy Efficiency Programs funded under the Recovery Act and Utility Customer-Funded Energy Efficiency Programs." (2011) 73.

Funding, Renewable, Clinton Climate Initiative, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory."Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Financing: Update on Commercial Programs." (2011) 16.

Zimring, Mark, Elizabeth Bellis, Anne Klein, Larry Hoyt, Keith Reller, and Jason Tomlinson."Qualified Energy Conservation Bonds (QECBs): Updates from the Field." (2011).

Bolinger, Mark."Community Wind: Once Again Pushing the Envelope of Project Finance." (2011) 34.

Abhyankar, Nikit, and Amol A Phadke."Impact of Large Scale Energy Efficiency Programs On Consumer Tariffs and Utility Finances in India." (2011).

Zimring, Mark, Merrian C Fuller, and Merrian Borgeson."NYSERDA’s Green Jobs-Green New York Program: Extending Energy Efficiency Financing To Underserved Households."Clean Energy Program Policy Brief (2011) 7.

Gadgil, Ashok J, David Fridley, Nina Zheng, Andree Sosler, Thomas W Kirchstetter, Amol A Phadke, and Nina Khanna."Using Energy Efficiency and Producing it Renewably."Physics of Sustainable Energy II: Using Energy Efficiency and Producing it Renewably 1401 (2011) 54-74. DOI

2010

Zimring, Mark, Ian M Hoffman, Merrian C Fuller, and Merrian Borgeson."HUD PowerSaver Pilot Loan Program."Clean Energy Program Policy Brief (2010) 6.

Barbose, Galen L, Naïm R Darghouth, and Ryan H Wiser."Tracking the Sun III The Installed Cost of Photovoltaics in the U.S. from 1998-2009." (2010) 54.