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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2002

Wiser, Ryan H."Wisconsin’s Use of Program Evaluation."Case Studies of State Support for Renewable Energy (2002) 6.

Osborn, Julie G, Charles A Goldman, Terry E Singer, and Nicole C Hopper."Assessing U.S. ESCO Industry: Results from the NAESCO Database Project." (2002) 15.

Marnay, Chris, Diane C Fisher, Scott Murtishaw, Amol A Phadke, Lynn K Price, and Jayant A Sathaye."Estimating carbon dioxide emissions factors for the California electric power sector."In the Proceedings of the 2002 ACEEE's Summer Study on Energy Efficiency 33 (2002).

Bolinger, Mark, Ryan H Wiser, and William H Golove."Quantifying the Value That Wind Power Provides as a Hedge Against Volatile Natural Gas Prices." (2002) 15.

Hauer, John F, Thomas J Overbye, Jeffery E Dagle, and Steven E Widergren."Advanced Transmission Technologies: National Transmission Grid Study, Appendix F."National Transmission Grid Study (2002) 45.

Oren, Shmuel S, George Gross, and Fernando L Alvarado."Alternative Business Models for Transmission Investment and Operation: National Transmission Grid Study, Appendix C."National Transmission Grid Study (2002) 38.

Goldman, Charles A, Joseph H Eto, and Galen L Barbose."California Customer Load Reductions during the Electricity Crisis: Did they Help to Keep the Lights On?." (2002) 39.

Bolinger, Mark, and Ryan H Wiser."Customer-Sited PV: A Survey of Clean Energy Fund Support." (2002) 16.

Schlegel, Jeff."Energy Efficiency Options for the New England Demand Response Initiative (NEDRI) – Framing Paper #4." (2002) 43.

Goldman, Charles A, Julie G Osborn, Nicole C Hopper, and Terry E Singer."Market Trends in the U.S. ESCO Industry: Results from the NAESCO Database Project." (2002) 107.

Eto, Joseph H, Fernando L Alvarado, Jeffery E Dagle, John F Hauer, Steven E Widergren, George Gross, Thomas J Overbye, Eric Hirst, Brendan J Kirby, David H Meyer, Shmuel S Oren, and Richard Sedano."National Transmission Grid Study (2002)." (2002).

Bolinger, Mark, and Ryan H Wiser."Utility-Scale Renewable Energy Projects: A Survey of Clean Energy Fund Support." (2002) 19.

Price, Lynn K, Chris Marnay, Jayant A Sathaye, Scott Murtishaw, Diane C Fisher, and Amol A Phadke."Development of methodologies for calculating greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generation for the California climate action registry."International Emissions Inventory Conference 12 (2002).

Goldman, Charles A."Price-Responsive Load (PRL) Program - Framing Paper #1." (2002) 40.

Goldman, Charles A, Grayson C Heffner, and Galen L Barbose."Customer Load Participation in Wholesale Markets: Summer 2001 Results, Lessons Learned and “Best Practices”." (2002) 19.

Goldman, Charles A."Demand Response Programs: Configuring Load as a Resource for Competitive Electricity Markets."NARUC Winter Meeting Washington DC Feb. 13, 2002 (2002).

Goldman, Charles A, Grayson C Heffner, and Michael Kintner-Meyer."Impact of Enabling Technologies on Customer Load Curtailment Performance: Summer 2001 Results from NYSERDA’s PON 585 and 577 Programs and NYISO’s Emergency Demand Response Program." (2002) 28.

Lin, Jiang, Jeanne Townend, David Fridley, Tony Silva, and Robin Clark."Energy-Efficient Appliance Labeling in China: Lessons for Successful Labeling Programs in Varied Markets."2002 ACEEE Summer Studies on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2002).

Bertoldi, Paolo, Bernard Aebischer, Charles Edlington, Craig Hershberg, Benoit Lebot, Jiang Lin, Tony Marker, Alan K Meier, Hidetoshi Nakagami, Yoshiaki Shibata, Hans Paul Siderius, and Carrie A Webber."Standby power consumption in Chinese households."ACEEE Summer Study 2002 (2002).

2001

Wiser, Ryan H, and Ole Langniss."The Renewables Portfolio Standard in Texas: An Early Assessment." (2001) 19.

Wiser, Ryan H, Mark Bolinger, Edward Holt, and Blair Swezey."Forecasting the Growth of Green Power Markets in the United States." (2001) 72.

Bolinger, Mark, Ryan H Wiser, and William H Golove."Revisiting the “Buy versus Build” Decision for Publicly Owned Utilities in California Considering Wind and Geothermal Resources." (2001) 25.

Heffner, Grayson C, and Charles A Goldman."Demand Responsive Programs - An Emerging Resource for Competitive Electricity Markets?." (2001) 15.

Osborn, Julie G, and Cornelia Kawann."Reliability of the U.S. Electricity System: Recent Trends and Current Issues." (2001) 58.

Eto, Joseph H, Jonathan G Koomey, Bryan Lehman, Nathan C Martin, Evan Mills, Carrie A Webber, and Ernst Worrell."Scoping Study on Trends in the Economic Value of Electricity Reliability to the U.S. Economy." (2001) 148.