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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1998

Goldman, Charles A, Joseph H Eto, Ralph Prahl, and Jeff Schlegel."California's Nonresidential Standard Performance Contract Program."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (1998) 14.

Prahl, Ralph, Jeff Schlegel, and Charles A Goldman."Organizing for Market Transformation: Institutional Issues in the Creation of a New Energy Efficiency Policy Framework in California." (1998) 14.

Golove, William H, Charles A Goldman, and Steven J Pickle."Purchasing Energy and Related Services in a Restructured Electricity Industry." (1998) 11.

Dayton, David S, Charles A Goldman, and Steven J Pickle."The Energy Services Company (ESCO) Industry: Industry and Market Trends." (1998) 17.

Marnay, Chris, M. M Suzie Kito, Dan Kirshner, Osman Sezgen, Steven J Pickle, Katja B Schumacher, and Ryan H Wiser."Restructuring and Renewable Energy Developments in California: Using Elfin to Simulate the Future California Power Market." (1998) 139.

Eto, Joseph H, Charles A Goldman, and Steven M Nadel."Ratepayer-Funded Energy-Efficiency Programs in a Restructured Electricity Industry: Issues and Options for Regulators and Legislators." (1998) 77.

Wiser, Ryan H, Steven J Pickle, and Charles A Goldman."Renewable energy policy and electricity restructuring: a California case study."Energy Policy 26.6 (1998) 465-475. DOI

Wiser, Ryan H, and Steven J Pickle."Selling Green Power in California: Product, Industry, and Market Trends." (1998) 55.

Eto, Joseph H, Steven Stoft, and M. M Suzie Kito."DSM Shareholder Incentives: Recent Designs and Economic Theory."Utilities Policy (1998) 16. DOI

Sezgen, Osman, Chris Marnay, and Sarah E Bretz."Wind Generation in the Future Competitive California Power Market." (1998) 17.

Stoft, Steven, Timothy N Belden, Charles A Goldman, and Steven J Pickle."Primer on Electricity Futures and Other Derivatives." (1998) 84.

Golove, William H, Charles A Goldman, and Steven J Pickle."Purchasing Power and Related Services: A Window into Customer Preferences." (1998) 7.

1997

Golove, William H, and Leon J Schipper."Restraining carbon emissions: measuring energy use and efficiency in the USA." (1997) 10.

Marnay, Chris, R. R Cooper Richey, Susan A Mahler, Sarah E Bretz, and Robert J Markel."Estimating the Environmental and Economic Effects of Widespread Residential PV Adoption Using GIS and NEMS." (1997) 32.

Jones, Evan, and Joseph H Eto."Financing End-Use Solar Technologies in a Restructured Electricity Industry: Comparing the Cost of Public Policies." (1997) 106.

Wiser, Ryan H, and Steven J Pickle."Green Marketing, Renewables, and Free Riders: Increasing Customer Demand for a Public Good." (1997) 53.

Stoft, Steven."How Financial Transmission Rights Curb Market Power." (1997) 41.

Eto, Joseph H, and Mithra M Moezzi."Metered Residential Cooling Loads: Comparison of Three Models."IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 12.2 (1997). DOI

Stoft, Steven."The Effect of the Transmission Grid on Market Power." (1997) 32.

Stoft, Steven, Carrie A Webber, and Ryan H Wiser."Transmission Pricing and Renewables: Issues, Options, and Recommendations." (1997) 71.

Wiser, Ryan H, and Steven J Pickle."Financing Investments in Renewable Energy: The Role of Policy Design and Restructuring." (1997) 101.

Eto, Joseph H, Steven Stoft, and Timothy N Belden."The Theory and Practice of Decoupling Utility Revenues from Sales."Utilities Policy 6.1 (1997). DOI

Pagliano, Lorenzo, Joseph H Eto, and Roberto Caponio."The Restructuring of the Italian Electricity Sector: Proposals for the Inclusion of Objectives for Increased Energy Efficiency and Renewables Exploitation."European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ECEEE) 1997 Summer Study (1997).

1996

Goldman, Charles A, M. M Suzie Kito, and Mithra M Moezzi."Evaluation of Public Service Electric & Gas Company's Standard Offer Program." (1996) 16.

Eto, Joseph H."The Past, Present, and Future of U.S. Utility Demand-Side Management Programs." (1996) 31.