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)

2015

Todd, Annika, Michael Perry, Brian Smith, Michael J. Sullivan, Peter Cappers, and Charles A. Goldman."Insights from Smart Meters: Ramp-up, dependability, and short-term persistence of savings from Home Energy Reports." (2015).

Hoffman, Ian M., Steven R. Schiller, Annika Todd, Megan A. Billingsley, Charles A. Goldman, and Lisa C. Schwartz."Energy Savings Lifetimes and Persistence: Practices, Issues and Data." (2015).

Hoffman, Ian M., Gregory M. Rybka, Greg Leventis, Charles A. Goldman, Lisa C. Schwartz, Megan A. Billingsley, and Steven R. Schiller."The Total Cost of Saving Electricity Through Utility Customer-Funded Energy Efficiency Programs: Estimates at the National, State, Sector and Program Level." (2015).

Kramer, Chris, Emily Martin Fadrhonc, Peter J. Thompson, and Charles A. Goldman."Accessing Secondary Markets as a Capital Source for Energy Efficiency Finance Programs: Program Design Considerations for Policymakers and Administrators." (2015).

2014

Todd, Annika, Michael Perry, Brian Smith, Michael J. Sullivan, Peter Cappers, and Charles A. Goldman."Insights from Smart Meters: Identifying Specific Actions, Behaviors and Characteristics that drive savings in Behavior-Based Programs." (2014).

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Peter H. Larsen, and Charles A. Goldman."Estimating customer electricity savings from projects installed by the U.S. ESCO industry." (2014).

Goldman, Charles A.."State/Provincial Regulation in 2030: Gazing into the Crystal Ball." (2014).

Stuart, Elizabeth, Peter H. Larsen, Charles A. Goldman, and Donald Gilligan."A method to estimate the size and remaining market potential of the U.S. ESCO (energy service company) industry."Energy 77 (2014) 362-371. DOI

Sanstad, Alan H., Stuart McMenamin, Andy Sukenik, Galen L. Barbose, and Charles A. Goldman."Modeling an aggressive energy-efficiency scenario in long-range load forecasting for electric power transmission planning."Applied Energy 128 (2014) 265-275. DOI

Larsen, Peter H., Elizabeth Stuart, Charles A. Goldman, and Donald Gilligan."Current Policies and Practices Related to the Incorporation of Non-energy Benefits in Energy Saving Performance Contract Projects."ACEEE 2014 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Larsen, Peter H., Elizabeth Stuart, Charles A. Goldman, and Donald Gilligan."Current Policies and Practices Related to the Incorporation of Non-energy Benefits in Energy Saving Performance Contract Projects."ACEEE 2014 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Zimring, Mark, Greg Leventis, Charles A. Goldman, Merrian Borgeson, Peter J. Thompson, and Ian M. Hoffman."On-Bill Finance: From Policy to Promise to Practice."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Thompson, Peter J., Peter H. Larsen, Chris Kramer, and Charles A. Goldman."Energy Efficiency Finance Programs: Use-case Analysis to Define Data Needs and Guidelines." (2014).

Thompson, Peter J., Merrian Borgeson, Mark Zimring, Charles A. Goldman, and Chris Kramer."Selling an Energy Efficiency Loan Portfolio in Oregon: Resale of the Craft3 loan portfolio to Self-Help Credit Union." (2014).

Zimring, Mark, Greg Leventis, Merrian Borgeson, Peter J. Thompson, Ian M. Hoffman, and Charles A. Goldman."Financing Energy Improvements on Utility Bills: Market Updates and Program Design Considerations for Policymakers and Administrators." (2014).

Barbose, Galen L., Alan H. Sanstad, and Charles A. Goldman."Incorporating energy efficiency into electric power transmission planning: A western United States case study."Energy Policy 67 (2014) 319-329. DOI

Todd, Annika, Michael Perry, Brian Smith, Michael J. Sullivan, Peter Cappers, and Charles A. Goldman."Insights from Smart Meters: The Potential for Peak-Hour Savings from Behavior-Based Programs." (2014).

Billingsley, Megan A., Ian M. Hoffman, Elizabeth Stuart, Steven R. Schiller, Charles A. Goldman, and Kristina Hamachi LaCommare."The Program Administrator Cost of Saved Energy for Utility Customer-Funded Energy Efficiency Programs." (2014).

Barbose, Galen L., Alan H. Sanstad, Charles A. Goldman, Stuart McMenamin, and Andy Sukenik."Incorporating Energy Efficiency into Western Interconnection Transmission Planning." (2014).

Hoffman, Ian M., Gregory M. Rybka, Greg Leventis, Charles A. Goldman, and Lisa C. Schwartz."The Total Cost of Saving Electricity Through Utility Customer-Funded Energy Efficiency Programs." (2014).

2013

Zimring, Mark, Merrian Borgeson, Annika Todd, and Charles A. Goldman."Getting the Biggest Bang for the Buck: Exploring the Rationales and Design Options for Energy Efficiency Financing Programs." (2013).

Cappers, Peter, Jason S. MacDonald, Charles A. Goldman, and Ookie Ma."An assessment of market and policy barriers for demand response providing ancillary services in U.S. electricity markets."Energy Policy 62 (2013) 1031-1039. DOI

Stuart, Elizabeth, Peter H. Larsen, Charles A. Goldman, and Donald Gilligan."Current Size and Remaining Market Potential of the U.S. Energy Service Company Industry." (2013).

Hoffman, Ian M., Megan A. Billingsley, Steven R. Schiller, Charles A. Goldman, and Elizabeth Stuart."Energy Efficiency Program Typology and Data Metrics: Enabling Multi-State Analyses Through the Use of Common Terminology." (2013).

Satchwell, Andrew, Galen L. Barbose, Charles A. Goldman, Ryan Hledik, and Ahmed Faruqui."Incorporating Demand Response into Western Interconnection Transmission Planning." (2013).