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)

2010

Koomey, Jonathan G, Hashem Akbari, Carl Blumstein, Marilyn A Brown, Richard E Brown, Chris Calwell, Sheryl Carter, Ralph Cavanagh, Audrey Chang, David Claridge, Paul P Craig, Richard C Diamond, Joseph H Eto, William Fulkerson, Ashok J Gadgil, Howard S Geller, José Goldemberg, Charles A Goldman, David B Goldstein, Steve E Greenberg, David Hafemeister, Jeffrey P Harris, Hal Harvey, Eric Heitz, Eric Hirst, Holmes Hummel, Daniel M Kammen, Henry Kelly, John A Laitner, Mark D Levine, Amory Lovins, Gil Masters, James E McMahon, Alan K Meier, Michael Messenger, John Millhone, Evan Mills, Steven M Nadel, Bruce Nordman, Lynn K Price, Joseph J Romm, Marc Ross, Michael Rufo, Jayant A Sathaye, Leon J Schipper, Stephen H Schneider, James L Sweeney, Malcolm Verdict, Diana Vorsatz, Devra Wang, Carl Weinberg, Richard Wilk, John Wilson, and Ernst Worrell."Defining a standard metric for electricity savings."Environmental Research Letters 5.1 (2010). DOI

2003

Goldman, Charles A, Rick Weston, Jeff Schlegel, Richard Sedano, Jim Lazar, Brendan J Kirby, and Eric Hirst."Dimensions of Demand Response: Capturing Customer Based Resources in New England's Power System and Markets." (2003) 86.

2002

Eto, Joseph H, Fernando L Alvarado, Jeffery E Dagle, John F Hauer, Steven E Widergren, George Gross, Thomas J Overbye, Eric Hirst, Brendan J Kirby, David H Meyer, Shmuel S Oren, and Richard Sedano."National Transmission Grid Study (2002)." (2002).

Hirst, Eric, and Brendan J Kirby."Transmission Planning and the Need for New Capacity." (2002) 133.

1996

Eto, Joseph H, and Eric Hirst."What Kind of Future for Energy Efficiency?."The Electricity Journal 9.5 (1996). DOI

1995

Hirst, Eric, and Joseph H Eto."Justification for Electric-Utility Energy-Efficiency Programs." (1995).

1994

Levine, Mark D, Eric Hirst, Jonathan G Koomey, James E McMahon, and Alan H Sanstad."Energy Efficiency, Market Failures, and Government Policy." (1994) 42.

1991

Hirst, Eric, Martin Schweitzer, Evelin Yourstone, and Joseph H Eto."Technical Competence of Integrated Resource Plans Prepared by Electric Utilities."Resources and Energy 13.1 (1991). DOI

Hirst, Eric, and Charles A Goldman."Creating the Future: Integrated Resource Planning for Electric Utilities."Annual Review of Energy 16 (1991) 31.

Hirst, Eric, Charles A Goldman, and Mary Ellen Hopkins."Integrated resource planning - Electric and gas utilities in the USA."Utilities Policy 1.2 (1991) 16. DOI

1990

Hirst, Eric, and Charles A Goldman."Key Issues in Integrated Resource Planning for Electric Utilities." (1990) 7.

Hirst, Eric, Martin Schweitzer, Evelin Yourstone, and Joseph H Eto."Assessing Integrated Resource Plans Prepared by Electric Utilities." (1990).

Hirst, Eric, and Charles A Goldman."Review of Demand-Side data needs for Least-Cost Utility Planning."Energy 15.5 (1990) 9. DOI

1989

Goldman, Charles A, and Eric Hirst."Key Issues in Developing Demand-Side Bidding Programs." (1989) 15.

Anderson, Karen, Linda Berry, Joseph H Eto, Howard S Geller, Jeffrey P Harris, Mark D Levine, Alan K Meier, Arthur H Rosenfeld, Carol Sabo, Edward L Vine, Stephen Wiel, Cheryl Wodley, Charles A Goldman, Eric Hirst, and Florentin Krause."Least Cost Planning in the Utility Sector: Progress and Challenges." (1989) 24.