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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2010

Zimring, Mark, Merrian C Fuller, and Merrian Borgeson."PACE and the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA)."Clean Energy Financing Policy Brief (2010) 5.

Mills, Andrew D, Amol A Phadke, and Ryan H Wiser."Exploration of Resource and Transmission Expansion Decisions in the Western Renewable Energy Zone Initiative." (2010) 88.

Goldman, Charles A, Michael Reid, Roger Levy, and Alison Silverstein."Coordination of Energy Efficiency and Demand Response." (2010) 74.

Bolinger, Mark."Revealing the Hidden Value that the Federal Investment Tax Credit and Treasury Cash Grant Provide To Community Wind Projects." (2010) 36.

2009

Sullivan, Michael J, Matthew G Mercurio, and Josh A Schellenberg."Estimated Value of Service Reliability for Electric Utility Customers in the United States." (2009) 130.

Eto, Joseph H."National Electric Transmission Congestion Study (2009)." (2009).

Hoen, Ben, Ryan H Wiser, Peter Cappers, Mark A Thayer, and Gautam Sethi."The Impact of Wind Power Projects on Residential Property Values in the United States: A Multi-Site Hedonic Analysis."Journal of Real Estate Research Vol. 33.Isssue 3 (2009) 167.

Budhraja, Vikram S, John Ballance, Jim Dyer, Fred Mobasheri, and Joseph H Eto."Transmission Benefit Quantification, Cost Allocation and Cost Recovery."Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2009) 216.

Hoff, Tom, Carl Lenox, Nicholas Miller, Yih-huei Wan, Ray George, Joshua Stein, Benjamin Kroposki, Andrew D Mills, Mark Ahlstrom, Michael Brower, and Abraham Ellis."Understanding Variability and Uncertainty of Photovoltaics for Integration with the Electric Power System." (2009) 18.

Hoen, Ben, Ryan H Wiser, Peter Cappers, Mark A Thayer, and Gautam Sethi."Wind Energy Facilities and Residential Properties: The Effect of Proximity and View on Sales Prices."Journal of Real Estate Research 33.3 (2009).

Barbose, Galen L, Charles A Goldman, and Jeff Schlegel."The Shifting Landscape of Ratepayer-Funded Energy Efficiency in the U.S.." (2009) 41.

Wiser, Ryan H, Galen L Barbose, Carla Peterman, and Naïm R Darghouth."Tracking the Sun II The Installed Cost of Photovoltaics in the U.S. from 1998-2008." (2009) 150.

Cappers, Peter, and Charles A Goldman."Empirical Assessment of Shareholder Incentive Mechanisms Designs under Aggressive Savings Goals: Case Study of a Kansas “Super-Utility”." (2009) 15.

Coughlin, Katie, Mary Ann Piette, Charles A Goldman, and Sila Kiliccote."Statistical analysis of baseline load models for non-residential buildings."Energy and Buildings 41.4 (2009) 374-381. DOI

Cappers, Peter, Charles A Goldman, Michele Chait, George Edgar, Jeff Schlegel, and Wayne Shirley."Financial Analysis of Incentive Mechanisms to Promote Energy Efficiency: Case Study of a Prototypical Southwest Utility." (2009) 83.

Budhraja, Vikram S, Fred Mobasheri, John Ballance, Jim Dyer, Alison Silverstein, and Joseph H Eto."Improving Electricity Resource-Planning Processes by Considering the Strategic Benefits of Transmission."The Electricity Journal 22.2 (2009). DOI

Bolinger, Mark, Ryan H Wiser, Karlynn Cory, and Ted James."PTC, ITC, or Cash Grant? An Analysis of the Choice Facing Renewable Power Projects in the United States." (2009) 21.

Mills, Andrew D, Ryan H Wiser, and Kevin Porter."The Cost of Transmission for Wind Energy: A Review of Transmission Planning Studies." (2009) 66.

Wiser, Ryan H, Galen L Barbose, and Carla Peterman."Tracking the Sun: The Installed Cost of Photovoltaics in the U.S. from 1998-2007." (2009) 42.

Bolinger, Mark."Financing Non-Residential Photovoltaic Projects: Options and Implications." (2009) 83.

Bharvirkar, Ranjit, Grayson C Heffner, and Charles A Goldman."Retail Demand Response in Southwest Power Pool." (2009) 33.

2008

Phadke, Amol A, Charles A Goldman, Doug Larson, Tom Carr, Larry Rath, Peter Balash, and Wan Yih-Huei."Advanced Coal Wind Hybrid: Economic Analysis." (2008) 85.

Barmack, Matthew, Edward P Kahn, Susan Tierney, and Charles A Goldman."Econometric models of power prices: An approach to market monitoring in the Western US."Utilities Policy 16.4 (2008) 307-320. DOI

Coughlin, Katie, and Charles A Goldman."Physical Impacts of Climate Change on the Western US Electricity System: A Scoping Study." (2008) 29.

Bharvirkar, Ranjit, Charles A Goldman, Donald Gilligan, Terry E Singer, David Birr, Patricia Donahue, and Scott Serota."Performance Contracting and Energy Efficiency in the State Government Market." (2008) 88.