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)

2017

Kim, Taehoon, Dongeun Lee, Jaesik Choi, C Anna Spurlock, Alex Sim, Annika Todd-Blick, and Kesheng Wu."Predicting Baseline for Analysis of Electricity Pricing."International Journal of Big Data Intelligence (IJBDI) Vol. 5.No. 1/2, 2018 (2017) 3-20. DOI

Jin, Ling, Doris Lee, Alex Sim, Sam Borgeson, Kesheng Wu, C Anna Spurlock, and Annika Todd-Blick."Comparison of Clustering Techniques for Residential Energy Behavior using Smart Meter Data." AAAI Workshops - Artificial Intelligence for Smart Grids and Buildings, March 2017 (2017).

2016

Schiller, Steven R, C Anna Spurlock, Annika Todd-Blick, and Bill Saxonis."Evaluation of Residential Behavior-Based Programs."Energy Efficiency EM&V Webinar Series (2016).

Cappers, Peter, C Anna Spurlock, Annika Todd-Blick, and Ling Jin."Experiences of Vulnerable Residential Customer Subpopulations with Critical Peak Pricing." (2016).

Jin, Ling, C Anna Spurlock, Sam Borgeson, Daniel Fredman, Liesel Hans, Siddharth Patel, and Annika Todd-Blick."Load Shape Clustering Using Residential Smart Meter Data: a Technical Memorandum." (2016).

Houde, Sebastien, and C Anna Spurlock."Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards and Appliances: Old and New Economic Rationales."Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy 5.2 (2016). DOI

Cappers, Peter, C Anna Spurlock, Annika Todd-Blick, Patrick Baylis, Meredith Fowlie, and Catherine Wolfram."Time-of-Use as a Default Rate for Residential Customers: Issues and Insights." (2016).

Spurlock, C Anna, Peter Cappers, Ling Jin, Annika Todd-Blick, and Patrick Baylis."Go for the Silver? Evidence from field studies quantifying the difference in evaluation results between “gold standard” randomized controlled trial methods versus quasi-experimental methods."2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2016).

Patel, Siddharth, Sam Borgeson, Ram Rajagopal, C Anna Spurlock, Ling Jin, and Annika Todd-Blick."Time Will Tell: Using Smart Meter Time Series Data to Derive Household Features and Explain Heter ogeneity in Pricing Programs."2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2016).

2015

Taylor, Margaret, C Anna Spurlock, and Hung-Chia Yang."Confronting Regulatory Cost and Quality Expectations: An Exploration of Technical Change in Minimum Efficiency Performance Standards." (2015).

Houde, Sebastien, and C Anna Spurlock."Do Energy Efficiency Standards Improve Quality? Evidence from a Revealed Preference Approach." (2015).

Spurlock, C Anna."Loss Aversion and Time-Differentiated Electricity Pricing." (2015).

2013

Spurlock, C Anna."Appliance Efficiency Standards and Price Discrimination." (2013).

Spurlock, C Anna, Hung-Chia Yang, and Larry L Dale."Energy Efficiency and Minimum Standards: a Market Analysis of Recent Changes in Appliance Energy Efficiency Standards in the United States." (2013).