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)

2013

Hoen, Ben, Geoffrey T Klise, Joshua Graff-Zivin, Mark A Thayer, Joachim Seel, and Ryan H Wiser."Exploring California PV Home Premiums." (2013).

Hoen, Ben, Ryan H Wiser, Mark A Thayer, and Peter Cappers."Residential Photovoltaic Energy Systems in California: The Effect on Home Sales Prices."Contemporary Economic Policy 31.4 (2013) 708 - 718. 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).

Hoen, Ben, Jason P Brown, Thomas Jackson, Ryan H Wiser, Mark A Thayer, and Peter Cappers."A Spatial Hedonic Analysis of the Effects of Wind Energy Facilities on Surrounding Property Values in the United States." (2013).

2012

Brown, Jason P, John Pender, Ryan H Wiser, Eric Lantz, and Ben Hoen."Ex Post Analysis of Economic Impacts from Wind Power Development in U.S. Counties."Energy Economics 34.6 (2012). DOI

Brown, Jason P, John Pender, Ryan H Wiser, Eric Lantz, and Ben Hoen."The Impact of Wind Development on County-Level Income and Employment: A Review of Methods and an Empirical Analysis (Fact Sheet)." (2012).

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).

Hoen, Ben, Ryan H Wiser, Mark A Thayer, and Peter Cappers."Do PV systems increase residential selling prices? If so, how can practitioners estimate this increase?."2012 38th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (2012) 001774 - 001777. DOI

Hoen, Ben, Ryan H Wiser, Mark A Thayer, and Peter Cappers."Residential Photovoltaic Energy Systems in California: The Effect on Home Sales Prices." (2012).

2011

Brown, Jason P, Ben Hoen, Eric Lantz, John Pender, and Ryan H Wiser."Economic Impacts of Wind Turbine Development in U.S. Counties."Poster Presented at the AAEA & NAREA Joint Annual Meeting, July 24-26, 2011, Pittsburgh, PA (2011) 1.

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.

Hoen, Ben, Ryan H Wiser, Peter Cappers, and Mark A Thayer."Do Photovoltaic Energy Systems Affect Residential Selling Prices? Results from a California Statewide Investigation."40th Annual National Solar Conference (Solar 2011) (2011).

Hoen, Ben, Peter Cappers, Ryan H Wiser, and Mark A Thayer."An Analysis of the Effects of Photovoltaic Energy Systems on Residential Selling Prices in California."American Real Estate Society Annual Conference (2011).

Hoen, Ben, Ryan H Wiser, Peter Cappers, and Mark A Thayer."An Analysis of the Effects of Residential Photovoltaic Energy Systems on Home Sales Prices in California." (2011) 60.

2010

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.

Hoen, Ben, Haftan Eckholdt, and Ryan H Wiser."Assessing the Impacts of Reduced Noise Operations of Wind Turbines on Neighbor Annoyance: A Preliminary Analysis in Vinalhaven, Maine." (2010) 17.

2009

Hoen, Ben, Ryan H Wiser, Peter Cappers, Mark A Thayer, and Gautam Sethi."The Impact of Wind Power Projects on Residential Property Values in the United States: A Multi-Site Hedonic Analysis."Journal of Real Estate Research Vol. 33.Isssue 3 (2009) 167.

Hoen, Ben, Ryan H Wiser, Peter Cappers, Mark A Thayer, and Gautam Sethi."Wind Energy Facilities and Residential Properties: The Effect of Proximity and View on Sales Prices."Journal of Real Estate Research 33.3 (2009).