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)

2021

Stuart, Elizabeth."An Ally in Your Corner: Benefits of Using Owner's Representatives." (2021).

Stuart, Elizabeth, Nichole L Hanus, Juan Pablo Carvallo, and Peter H Larsen."U.S. ESCO Industry: Industry Size and Recent Market Trends." (2021).

2020

Earni, Shankar, Philip Coleman, Elizabeth Stuart, and Peter H Larsen."eProject Builder: Promoting wider adoption of energy savings performance contracts through standardization and transparency."energise 2020 ENERGY INNOVATION FOR A SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY (2020) 300-308.

2019

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Sean Murphy, Elizabeth Stuart, Peter H Larsen, and Charles A Goldman."Evaluating project level investment trends for the U.S. ESCO industry: 1990-2017."Energy Policy 130.July 2019 (2019) 139-161. DOI

2018

Stuart, Elizabeth, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Peter H Larsen, Charles A Goldman, and Donald Gilligan."Understanding recent market trends of the US ESCO industry."Energy Efficiency 11 (2018) 1303–1324. DOI

Potter, Jennifer, Elizabeth Stuart, and Peter Cappers."Barriers and Opportunities to Broader Adoption of Integrated Demand Side Management at Electric Utilities: A Scoping Study." (2018).

2017

Frick, Natalie Mims, Steven R Schiller, Elizabeth Stuart, Lisa C Schwartz, Chris Kramer, and Richard Faesy."Evaluation of U.S. Building Energy Benchmarking and Transparency Programs: Attributes, Impacts, and Best Practices." (2017).

Larsen, Peter H, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Charles A Goldman, Sean Murphy, and Elizabeth Stuart."Updated Estimates of the Remaining Market Potential of the U.S. ESCO Industry." (2017).

Schiller, Steven R, Michael Li, Molly Cripps, Rodney Sobin, Peter L Therkelsen, and Elizabeth Stuart."Consistency and Coordination of Energy Efficiency EM&V and Reporting."Energy Efficiency EM&V Webinar Series (2017).

2016

Stuart, Elizabeth, Peter H Larsen, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Charles A Goldman, and Donald Gilligan."U.S. Energy Service Company (ESCO) Industry: Recent Market Trends." (2016).

2015

Stuart, Elizabeth."Capturing Energy Efficiency in Residential Real Estate Transactions." (2015).

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

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).

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).

2013

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).

2012

Todd-Blick, Annika, Elizabeth Stuart, Steven R Schiller, and Charles A Goldman."Evaluation, Measurement, and Verification (EM&V) of Residential Behavior-Based Energy Efficiency Programs: Issues and Recommendations." (2012).

Zimring, Mark, Merrian Borgeson, Ian M Hoffman, Charles A Goldman, Elizabeth Stuart, Annika Todd-Blick, and Megan A Billingsley."Alternative Underwriting Criteria — Using Utility Bill Payment History as a Proxy for Credit: Case Study on Clean Energy Works Oregon." (2012).

Zimring, Mark, Merrian Borgeson, Ian M Hoffman, Charles A Goldman, Elizabeth Stuart, Annika Todd-Blick, and Megan A Billingsley."Extending Efficiency Services to Underserved Households: NYSERDA's Assisted Home Performance with ENERGY STAR Program." (2012).

Zimring, Mark, Merrian Borgeson, Ian M Hoffman, Charles A Goldman, Elizabeth Stuart, Annika Todd-Blick, and Megan A Billingsley."Using Credit Enhancements to Leverage Existing CDFI Capacity: Indianapolis EcoHouse Project Loan Program." (2012).

Zimring, Mark, Merrian Borgeson, Ian M Hoffman, Charles A Goldman, Elizabeth Stuart, Annika Todd-Blick, and Megan A Billingsley."Boulder, Colorado's SmartRegs: Minimum Performance Standards for Residential Rental Housing." (2012).

Zimring, Mark, Merrian Borgeson, Ian M Hoffman, Charles A Goldman, Elizabeth Stuart, Annika Todd-Blick, and Megan A Billingsley."Scaling Energy Efficiency in the Heart of the Residential Market: Increasing Middle America's Access to Capital for Energy Improvements." (2012).

2011

Zimring, Mark, Merrian Borgeson, Ian M Hoffman, Charles A Goldman, Elizabeth Stuart, Annika Todd-Blick, and Megan A Billingsley."Delivering Energy Efficiency to Middle Income Single Family Households." (2011) 102.

Stuart, Elizabeth."The Value of Energy Performance and Green Attributes in Buildings: A Review of Existing Literature and Recommendations for Future Research."Clean Energy Program Policy Brief (2011) 10.