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

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)

2014

Wiser, Ryan H., Mark Bolinger, Galen L. Barbose, Naïm R. Darghouth, Ben Hoen, Andrew D. Mills, Samantha Weaver, Kevin Porter, Michael Buckley, Frank Oteri, and Suzanne Tegen."2013 Wind Technologies Market Report." (2014).

Mills, Andrew D., Audun Botterud, Jing Wu, Zhi Zhou, Bri-Mathias Hodge, and Mike Heaney."Integrating Solar PV in Utility System Operations." (2014).

Mills, Andrew D., and Ryan H. Wiser."Strategies for Mitigating the Reduction in Economic Value of Variable Generation with Increasing Penetration Levels." (2014).

2013

Mills, Andrew D., and Ryan H. Wiser."Changes in the economic value of wind energy and flexible resources at increasing penetration levels in the Rocky Mountain Power Area."Wind Energy 17.11 (2013) 1711 - 1726. DOI

Mills, Andrew D., and Ryan H. Wiser."Changes in the Economic Value of Photovoltaic Generation at High Penetration Levels: A Pilot Case Study of California."IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics 3.4 (2013) 1394 - 1402. DOI

Wiser, Ryan H., Mark Bolinger, Galen L. Barbose, Naïm R. Darghouth, Ben Hoen, Andrew D. Mills, Samantha Weaver, Kevin Porter, Michael Buckley, Sari Fink, Frank Oteri, and Suzanne Tegen."2012 Wind Technologies Market Report." (2013).

Mills, Andrew D., and Ryan H. Wiser."Changes in the Economic Value of Variable Generation at High Penetration Levels: A Pilot Case Study of California."18th Annual POWER Conference on Energy Research and Policy (2013).

Mills, Andrew D., and Ryan H. Wiser."Solar Valuation in Utility Planning Studies." (2013).

2012

Mills, Andrew D., and Ryan H. Wiser."An Evaluation of Solar Valuation Methods Used in Utility Planning and Procurement Processes." (2012).

Cappers, Peter, Andrew D. Mills, Charles A. Goldman, Ryan H. Wiser, and Joseph H Eto."An assessment of the role mass market demand response could play in contributing to the management of variable generation integration issues."Energy Policy 48 (2012) 420 - 429. DOI

Wiser, Ryan H., Mark Bolinger, Galen L. Barbose, Naïm R. Darghouth, Ben Hoen, Andrew D. Mills, Kevin Porter, Michael Buckley, Sari Fink, Frank Oteri, and Suzanne Tegen."2011 Wind Technologies Market Report." (2012).

Mills, Andrew D., and Ryan H. Wiser."Changes in the Economic Value of Variable Generation at High Penetration Levels: A Pilot Case Study of California." (2012).

Mills, Andrew D., Ryan H. Wiser, and Kevin Porter."The cost of transmission for wind energy in the United States: A review of transmission planning studies."Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 16.1 (2012) 19. DOI

2011

Cappers, Peter, Andrew D. Mills, Charles A. Goldman, Ryan H. Wiser, and Joseph H Eto."Mass Market Demand Response and Variable Generation Integration Issues: A Scoping Study." (2011) 76.

Mills, Andrew D., and Ryan H. Wiser."Implications of geographic diversity for short-term variability and predictability of solar power."2011 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (2011) 1 - 9. DOI

Wiser, Ryan H., Mark Bolinger, Naïm R. Darghouth, Kevin Porter, Michael Buckley, Sari Fink, Russell Raymond, Frank Oteri, Galen L. Barbose, Joachim Seel, Andrew D. Mills, and Ben Hoen."2010 Wind Technologies Market Report." (2011) 98.

Mills, Andrew D., Amol A. Phadke, and Ryan H. Wiser."Exploration of resource and transmission expansion decisions in the Western Renewable Energy Zone initiative."Energy Policy 39.3 (2011) 1732 - 1745. DOI

2010

Mills, Andrew D., and Ryan H. Wiser."Implications of Wide-Area Geographic Diversity for Short- Term Variability of Solar Power." (2010) 48.

Wiser, Ryan H., Mark Bolinger, Galen L. Barbose, Naïm R. Darghouth, Ben Hoen, Andrew D. Mills, Kevin Porter, Sari Fink, and Suzanne Tegen."2009 Wind Technologies Market Report." (2010) 88.

Mills, Andrew D., Amol A. Phadke, and Ryan H. Wiser."Exploration of Resource and Transmission Expansion Decisions in the Western Renewable Energy Zone Initiative." (2010) 88.

2009

Hoff, Tom, Carl Lenox, Nicholas Miller, Yih-huei Wan, Ray George, Joshua Stein, Benjamin Kroposki, Andrew D. Mills, Mark Ahlstrom, Michael Brower, and Abraham Ellis."Understanding Variability and Uncertainty of Photovoltaics for Integration with the Electric Power System." (2009) 18.

Mills, Andrew D., Ryan H. Wiser, and Kevin Porter."The Cost of Transmission for Wind Energy: A Review of Transmission Planning Studies." (2009) 66.

2007

Wiser, Ryan H., Andrew D. Mills, Galen L. Barbose, and William H. Golove."The Impact of Retail Rate Structures on the Economics of Commercial Photovoltaic Systems in California." (2007) 97.