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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2007

Lin, Jiang, Nan Zhou, Mark D Levine, and David Fridley."Taking out One Billion Tons of CO₂: The Magic of China’s 11th Five Year Plan?." (2007).

Hopper, Nicole C, Charles A Goldman, Donald Gilligan, Terry E Singer, and David Birr."A Survey of the U.S. ESCO Industry: Market Growth and Development from 2000 to 2006." (2007) 37.

Wiser, Ryan H, and Mark Bolinger."Annual Report on U.S. Wind Power Installation, Cost, and Performance Trends: 2006." (2007) 24.

Hopper, Nicole C, Charles A Goldman, Ranjit Bharvirkar, and Daniel Engel."The Summer of 2006: A Milestone in the Ongoing Maturation of Demand Response." (2007) 22.

Puckett, Curt D, and Timothy P Hennessy."Deemed Savings Estimates for Legacy Air Conditioning and Water Heating Direct Load Control Programs in PJM Region." (2007) 101.

Holt, Edward, and Ryan H Wiser."The Treatment of Renewable Energy Certificates, Emissions Allowances, and Green Power Programs in State Renewables Portfolio Standards." (2007) 38.

Wiser, Ryan H."The Treatment of Solar Electricity in Renewables Portfolio Standards." (2007).

Fridley, David, Nathaniel T Aden, Nan Zhou, and Jiang Lin."Impacts of China’s Current Appliance Standards and Labeling Program to 2020." (2007).

Wiser, Ryan H."Renewables Portfolio Standards: A Focus on Western States."AWEA Wind Power Finance & Investment Workshop, March 2007, San Francisco, CA (2007).

Wiser, Ryan H."Wind Power and the Production Tax Credit: An Overview of Research Results."Senate Finance Committee (2007) 14.

Lin, Jiang."Energy Conservation Investments: a Comparison Between China and the US."Energy Policy 35.2 (2007) 916 - 924. DOI

Bolinger, Mark, Ryan H Wiser, and Edwin Ing."Exploring the Economic Value of EPAct 2005’s PV Tax Credits."Case Studies of State Support for Renewable Energy (2007) 10.

Sezgen, Osman, Charles A Goldman, and P Krishnarao."Option Value of Electricity Demand Response."Energy 32.2 (2007) 108-119. DOI

Boisvert, Richard, Peter Cappers, Charles A Goldman, and Bernard Neenan."Customer Response to RTP in Competitive Markets: A Study of Niagara Mohawk's Standard Offer Tariff."The Energy Journal (2007) 53-74.

Zhou, Nan, Michael A McNeil, David Fridley, Jiang Lin, Lynn K Price, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Jayant A Sathaye, and Mark D Levine."Energy Use in China: Sectoral Trends and Future Outlook." (2007).

Goldman, Charles A, Nicole C Hopper, Ranjit Bharvirkar, Bernard Neenan, and Peter Cappers."Estimating Demand Response Market Potential among Large Commercial and Industrial Customers: A Scoping Study." (2007) 89.

Bressand, Florian, Nan Zhou, and Jiang Lin."al Energy use in commercial building in China: Current situation and future scenarios."2007 ECEEE Summer Study Proceedings (2007).

2006

Goldman, Charles A, Galen L Barbose, and Bernard Neenan."RTP as an Optional Service: It’s Alive, But Is It Well?."The Electricity Journal Vol. 19.Issue 1 (2006) 18.

Lin, Jiang, Nan Zhou, Mark D Levine, and David Fridley."Achieving China’s Target for Energy Intensity Reduction in 2010: An exploration of recent trends and possible future scenarios." (2006).

Siddiqui, Afzal S, and Chris Marnay."Addressing an Uncertain Future Using Scenario Analysis." (2006) 24.

Eto, Joseph H, Douglas R Hale, and Bernard Lesieutre."Toward More Comprehensive Assessments of FERC Electricity Restructuring Policies: A Review of Recent Benefit-Cost Studies of RTOs."The Electricity Journal 19.10 (2006) 50-62. DOI

Barmack, Matthew, Edward P Kahn, Susan Tierney, and Charles A Goldman."A Regional Approach to Market Monitoring in the West." (2006) 85.

Barbose, Galen L, Ryan H Wiser, and Mark Bolinger."Designing PV Incentive Programs to Promote Performance: A Review of Current Practice." (2006) 39.

Barbose, Galen L, Ryan H Wiser, and Mark Bolinger."Designing PV Incentive Programs to Promote Performance: A Review of Current Practice."Case Studies of State Support for Renewable Energy (2006) 39.

Hopper, Nicole C, Charles A Goldman, and Jeff Schlegel."Energy Efficiency in Western Utility Resource Plans: Impacts on Regional Resource Assessment and Support for WGA Policies." (2006) 68.