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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.
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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

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2023

Cappers, Peter, Andrew Satchwell, Cameron Brooks, and Sam Kozel."A Snapshot of EV-Specific Rate Designs Among U.S. Investor-Owned Electric Utilities." (2023).

Hanus, Nichole L, Jay Barlow, Andrew Satchwell, and Peter Cappers."Assessing the Current State of U.S. Energy Equity Regulation and Legislation." (2023).

Satchwell, Andrew, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Peter Cappers, James Milford, and Hadi Eshraghi."Quantifying the Financial Impacts of Electric Vehicles on Utility Ratepayers and Shareholders." (2023).

2022

Cappers, Peter, and Andrew Satchwell."EVGrid Assist Webinar: Electric Vehicle Rates and Incentives." (2022).

Langevin, Jared, Aven Satre-Meloy, Andrew Satchwell, Ryan Hledik, Julia Olszewski, Kate Peters, and Handi Chandra-Putra."The role of buildings in U.S. energy system decarbonization by mid-century."One Earth (2022).

Satchwell, Andrew, Brady Cowiestoll, Elaine Hale, Brian F. Gerke, Paige Jadun, Cong Zhang, and Samanvitha Murthy."Assessing the Interactive Impacts of Energy Efficiency and Demand Response on Power System Costs and Emissions." (2022).

Satchwell, Andrew, and Ryan Hledik."Making Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings a “Win” for Both Customers and Utilities."2022 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022).

Cappers, Peter, and Andrew Satchwell."EV Retail Rate Design 101." (2022).

Satchwell, Andrew, Ryan Hledik, Oleksandr Kuzura, Oluwatobi Adekanye, and Chioke B. Harris."Valuing Residential Energy Efficiency: Analysis for a Prototypical Southeastern Utility." (2022).

Gerke, Brian F., Cong Zhang, Samanvitha Murthy, Andrew Satchwell, Elaina Present, Henry Horsey, Eric Wilson, Andrew Parker, Andrew Speake, Rajendra Adhikari, and Mary Ann Piette."Load-driven interactions between energy efficiency and demand response on regional grid scales."Advances in Applied Energy 6 (2022). DOI

Murthy, Samanvitha, Andrew Satchwell, and Brian F. Gerke."Metrics to describe changes in the power system need for demand response resources."Smart Energy 6 (2022). DOI

2021

Shen, Bo, Fredrich Kahrl, and Andrew Satchwell."Facilitating Power Grid Decarbonization with Distributed Energy Resources: Lessons from the United States."Annual Review of Environment and Resources 46:349-375 (2021). DOI

Satchwell, Andrew."Increasing the Economic Potential of Residential Energy Efficiency as a Utility Grid Resource." (2021).

Murphy, Sean, Jeff Deason, and Andrew Satchwell."Timed to save: the added value of accounting for hourly incidence of electricity savings from residential space-conditioning measures."Energy Efficiency (2021). DOI

Cappers, Peter, Sydney Forrester, and Andrew Satchwell."Disaggregating Future Retail Electricity Rate Growth." (2021).

Smith, Sarah Josephine, Andrew Satchwell, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, and Corinne D. Scown."The implications of facility design and enabling policies on the economics of dry anaerobic digestion."Waste Management 128 (2021) 122 - 131. DOI

Satchwell, Andrew, Mary Ann Piette, Aditya Khandekar, Jessica Granderson, Natalie Mims Frick, Ryan Hledik, Ahmad Faruqui, Long Lam, Stephanie Ross, Jesse Cohen, Kitty Wang, Daniela Urigwe, Dan Delurey, Monica Neukomm, and David Nemtzow."A National Roadmap for Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings." (2021).

Cappers, Peter, Andrew Satchwell, Max Dupuy, and Carl Linvill."The Distribution of U.S. Electric Utility Revenue Decoupling Rate Impacts from 2005 to 2017." (2021).

Brooks, Cameron, Peter Cappers, and Andrew Satchwell."Expanding the Scope of Commercial Opportunities for Investor-Owned Electric Utilities." (2021).

Langevin, Jared, Chioke B. Harris, Aven Satre-Meloy, Handi Chandra Putra, Andrew Speake, Elaina Present, Rajendra Adhikari, Eric Wilson, and Andrew Satchwell."U.S. Building Energy Efficiency and Flexibility as an Electric Grid Resource."SSRN Electronic Journal (2021). DOI

2020

Barbose, Galen L., and Andrew Satchwell."Benefits and costs of a utility-ownership business model for residential rooftop solar photovoltaics."Nature Energy (2020). DOI

Gerke, Brian F., Cong Zhang, Andrew Satchwell, Samanvitha Murthy, Mary Ann Piette, Elaina Present, Eric Wilson, Andrew Speake, and Rajendra Adhikari."Modeling the Interaction Between Energy Efficiency and Demand Response on Regional Grid Scales."ACEEE 2020 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2020).

Satchwell, Andrew, Peter Cappers, Jeff Deason, Sydney Forrester, Natalie Mims Frick, Brian F. Gerke, and Mary Ann Piette."A Conceptual Framework to Describe Energy Efficiency and Demand Response Interactions." (2020).

Nordahl, Sarah L., Jay P. Devkota, Jahon Amirebrahimi, Sarah Josephine Smith, Hanna Breunig, Chelsea V. Preble, Andrew Satchwell, Ling Jin, Nancy J. Brown, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, and Corinne D. Scown."Life-Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Human Health Trade-Offs of Organic Waste Management StrategiesLife-Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Human Health Trade-Offs of Organic Waste Management Strategies."Environmental Science & Technology 54.15 (2020) 9200 - 9209. DOI

2019

Satchwell, Andrew, Peter Cappers, Javier Reneses, Will Gorman, and Greg Leventis."Financial Impacts of Net-Metered DPV on a Prototypical Western Utility’s Shareholders and Ratepayers." (2019).

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