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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1991

Kahn, Edward P, and Charles A Goldman."The Role of Competitive Forces in Integrated Resource Planning." (1991) 49.

Eto, Joseph H, and Charles A Goldman."The Business of Delivering Energy Services in California." (1991).

Cohen, Samuel D, Charles A Goldman, and Jeffrey P Harris."Energy savings and economics of retrofitting single-family buildings."Energy and Buildings 17.4 (1991) 15. DOI

Eto, Joseph H, and Donald Schultz."Regulatory Oversight of Shared Savings: Lessons from the California Collaborative."Fifth National Demand-Side Management Conference (1991).

Koomey, Jonathan G, Celina S Atkinson, Alan K Meier, James E McMahon, Stan Boghosian, Barbara A Atkinson, Isaac Turiel, Mark D Levine, Bruce Nordman, and Peter T Chan."The Potential for Electricity Efficiency Improvements in the U.S. Residential Sector." (1991).

Eto, Joseph H, Hashem Akbari, Robert G Pratt, Steven D Braithwait, Edward L Vine, and Drury B Crawley."End-Use Load Shape Data Application, Estimation, and Collection."State of the Art of Energy Efficiency: Future Directions (1991) 16.

Hirst, Eric, Martin Schweitzer, Evelin Yourstone, and Joseph H Eto."Technical Competence of Integrated Resource Plans Prepared by Electric Utilities."Resources and Energy 13.1 (1991). DOI

di Conti, Flavio, and Joseph H Eto."Meccanismi di Mercato e Internalizzazione delle Diseconomie Ambientali."Energia 3 (1991).

Goldman, Charles A, and Mary Ellen Hopkins."Survey and Analysis of State Regulatory Activities on Least Cost Planning for Gas Utilities." (1991) 194.

Cohen, Samuel D, Charles A Goldman, and Jeffrey P Harris."Measured Energy Savings and Economics of Retrofitting Existing Single-Family Homes: An Update of the BECA-B Database." (1991) 82.

di Conti, Flavio, and Joseph H Eto."Metodi di Stima di Costi Sociali-Ambientali Della Produzione di Energia Elettrica."Energia 2 (1991).

Hirst, Eric, and Charles A Goldman."Creating the Future: Integrated Resource Planning for Electric Utilities."Annual Review of Energy 16 (1991) 31.

Akbari, Hashem, Leo I Rainer, and Joseph H Eto."Integrated Estimation of Commercial Sector End-Use Load Shapes and Energy Use Intensities, Phase II." (1991).

Hirst, Eric, Charles A Goldman, and Mary Ellen Hopkins."Integrated resource planning - Electric and gas utilities in the USA."Utilities Policy 1.2 (1991) 16. DOI

1990

Schultz, Donald, and Joseph H Eto."Carrots and Sticks: Shared-Savings Incentive Programs for Energy Efficiency."The Electricity Journal 3.10 (1990). DOI

Schultz, Donald, and Joseph H Eto."Designing Shared-Savings Incentive Programs for Energy Efficiency: Balancing Carrots and Sticks." (1990) 24.

Cohen, Samuel D, Charles A Goldman, and Jeffrey P Harris."Measured Energy Savings for Individual Retrofit Measures in Single-Family Buildings." (1990) 9.

Vine, Edward L, Odon D Buen, and Charles A Goldman."Stimulating Utilities to Promote Energy Efficiency: Process Evaluation of Madison Gas and Electric's Competition Pilot Program." (1990).

Eto, Joseph H."An Overview of Analysis Tools for Integrated Resource Planning."Energy 15.11 (1990). DOI

Eto, Joseph H."Internalizing Environmental Costs: A Survey of Progress in Estimating the External Environmental Costs of Electricity Production and of Market Based Policies to Incorporate Them." (1990).

Akbari, Hashem, Isaac Turiel, Joseph H Eto, Kristin E Heinemeier, Benoit Lebot, and Leo I Rainer."A Review of Existing Commercial Energy Use Intensity and Load Shape Studies."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (1990).

Eto, Joseph H, Isaac Turiel, Hashem Akbari, Benoit Lebot, and Kristin E Heinemeier."An Investigation of the Use of Prototypes for Commercial Sector EUI Analysis."American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy 1990 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (1990).

Koomey, Jonathan G."Comparative Analysis of Monetary Estimates of External Environmental Costs Associated with Combustion of Fossil Fuels." (1990) 42.

Cohen, Samuel D, Joseph H Eto, Charles A Goldman, John A Beldock, and Geoffrey Crandall."Environmental externalities: What state regulators are doing."The Electricity Journal 3.6 (1990). DOI

Eto, Joseph H, Hashem Akbari, Robert G Pratt, and Steven D Braithwait."End-Use Load Shape Data Application, Estimation, and Collection: A State-of-the-Art Review."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (1990) 30.