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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2006

Barbose, Galen L, Ranjit Bharvirkar, Charles A Goldman, Nicole C Hopper, and Bernard Neenan."Killing Two Birds with One Stone: Can Real-Time Pricing Support Retail Competition and Demand Response?." (2006) 14.

Eto, Joseph H."National Electric Transmission Congestion Study (2006)." (2006).

Hopper, Nicole C, Charles A Goldman, and Bernard Neenan."Not All Large Customers Are Made Alike: Disaggregating Response to Default-Service Day-Ahead Market Pricing."2006 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2006).

Hopper, Nicole C, Charles A Goldman, and Bernard Neenan."Not All Large Customers Are Made Alike: Disaggregating Response to Default-Service Day-Ahead Market Pricing." (2006) 17.

Bolinger, Mark."Avoiding the Haircut: Potential Ways to Enhance the Value of the USDA’s Section 9006 Program." (2006) 29.

Lin, Jiang."Mitigating Carbon Emissions: the Potential of Improving Efficiency of Household Appliances in China." (2006).

Force, U.S.-Canada Power System Outage Task, U.S Department of Energy, and Joseph H Eto."Recommendation 12: The Relationship between Competitive Power Markets and Grid Reliability."U.S-Canada Power System Outage Task Force (2006).

Fripp, Matthias, and Ryan H Wiser."Analyzing the Effects of Temporal Wind Patterns on the Value of Wind-Generated Electricity at Different Sites in California and the Northwest." (2006) 122.

Hopper, Nicole C, Charles A Goldman, Ranjit Bharvirkar, and Bernard Neenan."Customer Response to Day-Ahead Market Hourly Pricing: Choices and Performance." (2006) 30. DOI

Hopper, Nicole C, Charles A Goldman, Ranjit Bharvirkar, and Bernard Neenan."Customer Response to Day-Ahead Market Hourly Pricing: Choices and Performance." 14.2 (2006) 126-134. DOI

Fry, Terry, Robert Hinkle, and Daniel Engel."Demand Response Program Design Preferences of Large Customers: Focus Group Results from Four States." (2006) 69.

Bolinger, Mark, and Ryan H Wiser."State Clean Energy Funds Support Utility-Scale Projects."North American Wind Power (2006) 5.

Sathaye, Jayant A, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Satish Kumar, Maithili Iyer, Christina Galitsky, Amol A Phadke, Michael A McNeil, Lynn K Price, Ranjit Bharvirkar, and Srinivasan Padmanabhan."Implementing End-use Efficiency Improvements in India: Drawing from Experience in the US and Other Countries." (2006).

Gumerman, Etan, Peter T Chan, Bernard Lesieutre, Chris Marnay, and Juan Wang."Modeling Interregional Transmission Congestion in the National Energy Modeling System." (2006) 74.

Bolinger, Mark, and Ryan H Wiser."The Impact of State Clean Energy Fund Support for Utility-Scale Renewable Energy Projects."Case Studies of State Support for Renewable Energy (2006) 9.

Barbose, Galen L, Ryan H Wiser, and Mark Bolinger."U.S. Aims for Zero-Energy: Support for PV on New Homes." (2006) 12.

Hopper, Nicole C, Charles A Goldman, and Bernard Neenan."Demand Response from Day-Ahead Hourly Pricing for Large Customers." (2006) 19.

Barbose, Galen L, Ryan H Wiser, and Mark Bolinger."Encouraging PV Adoption in New Market-Rate Residential Construction: A Critical Review of Program Experiences to Date." (2006) 7.

Bolinger, Mark."Hedging Future Gas Price Risk with Wind Power."UWIG Annual Meeting Arlington, Virginia April 6, 2006 (2006).

Holt, Edward, Ryan H Wiser, and Mark Bolinger."Who Owns Renewable Energy Certificates? An Exploration of Policy Options and Practice." (2006) 71.

Wiser, Ryan H, and Mark Bolinger."Federal Tax Incentives for PV Potential Implications for Program Design."California Public Utilities Commission San Francisco, California March 16, 2006 (2006).

Eto, Joseph H."Maintain, Enhance, and Improve Reliability of California’s Electric System under Restructuring." (2006).

Wiser, Ryan H."Meeting Expectations: A Review of State Experience with RPS Policies." (2006).

Energy, U.S Department of."Benefits of Demand Response in Electricity Markets and Recommendations for Achieving Them - A Report to the United States Congress Pursant to Section 1252 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005." (2006) 122.

LaCommare, Kristina Hamachi, and Joseph H Eto."Cost of Power Interruptions to Electricity Consumers in the United States (U.S.)." (2006) 33.