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)

2024

Kahrl, Fredrich, Jennie Jorgenson, Lawryn Kiboma, James Hyungkwan Kim, Dev Millstein, Brian Sergi, and Natalie Mims Frick."Solar and Storage Integration in the Southeastern United States: Economics, Reliability, and Operations." (2024).

2023

Kemp, Julie Mulvaney, Joachim Seel, Joseph Rand, Dev Millstein, Fredrich Kahrl, Will Gorman, Ryan H Wiser, Will Cotton, and Kevin Porter."Interconnection Cost Analysis in the NYISO Territory." (2023).

Relf, Grace, Joy Wang, Fredrich Kahrl, Paul De Martini, Caitlyn Edmundson, Rob Peterson, Sean Morash, Brad Borum, Tim Woolf, Jennifer Yoshimura, Sarah Hall, Tera Dornfeld, Josh L Bode, Megan Gilman, Robert Peterson, Lisa C Schwartz, James Lester, and Nick Sayen."PUC Peer-Sharing Webinars on Integrated Distribution System Planning." (2023).

2022

Abhyankar, Nikit, Jiang Lin, Fredrich Kahrl, Shengfei Yin, Umed Paliwal, Xu Liu, Nina Khanna, Amol A Phadke, Qian Luo, David Wooley, Mike O’Boyle, Olivia Ashmoore, Robbie Orvis, and Michelle Solomon."Achieving an 80% Carbon Free Electricity System in China by 2035." (2022).

De Martini, Paul, Alan Cooke, Fredrich Kahrl, Lavelle Freeman, Juan Martinez, Elton Prifti, Kim Cullen, Jody Londo, Tim Woolf, Rebecca O'Neil, Dan Boff, Xiangqi Zhu, Seemita Pal, Ron Melton, Lisa C Schwartz, Natalie Mims Frick, and Juliet Homer."New England PUCs training on electricity system planning." (2022).

Seel, Joachim, Will Gorman, Galen L Barbose, Mark Bolinger, Cristina Crespo Montañés, Sydney Forrester, James Hyungkwan Kim, Fredrich Kahrl, Andrew D Mills, Dev Millstein, Bentham Paulos, Joseph Rand, Cody Warner, and Ryan H Wiser."Batteries Included: Top 10 Findings from Berkeley Lab Research on the Growth of Hybrid Power Plants in the United States." (2022).

2021

Kahrl, Fredrich, Shruti M Deorah, Lakshmi Alagappan, Paul M Sotkiewicz, and Nikit Abhyankar."Policy and Regulatory Recommendations to Support a Least-Cost Pathway for India’s Power Sector." (2021).

Shen, Bo, Fredrich Kahrl, and Andrew Satchwell."Facilitating Power Grid Decarbonization with Distributed Energy Resources: Lessons from the United States."Annual Review of Environment and Resources 46:349-375 (2021). DOI

Kahrl, Fredrich, James Hyungkwan Kim, Andrew D Mills, Ryan H Wiser, Cristina Crespo Montañés, and Will Gorman."Variable Renewable Energy Participation in U.S. Ancillary Services Markets: Economic Evaluation and Key Issues." (2021).

Dai, Fan, Fredrich Kahrl, Jessica Gordon, Jennifer Perron, Yuqing Zhu, Rawley Loken, Amber Mahone, Nina Khanna, Nan Zhou, and Lynn K Price."Getting to Net Zero - U.S.-China Framework And Milestones For Carbon Neutrality." (2021).

Kahrl, Fredrich, and Lisa C Schwartz."All-Source Competitive Solicitations: State and Electric Utility Practices." (2021).

Hu, Junfeng, Qingyou Yan, Fredrich Kahrl, Xu Liu, Peng Wang, and Jiang Lin."Evaluating the ancillary services market for large-scale renewable energy integration in China's northeastern power grid."Utilities Policy 69 (2021) 101179. DOI

Kahrl, Fredrich, Jiang Lin, Xu Liu, and Junfeng Hu."Sunsetting coal power in China."iScience 24.9 (2021) 102939. DOI

2019

Hu, Junfeng, Qingyou Yan, Xingmei Li, Zhong-Zhong Jiang, Fredrich Kahrl, Jiang Lin, and Peng Wang."A cooperative game-based mechanism for allocating ancillary service costs associated with wind power integration in China."Utilities Policy 58 (2019) 120 - 127. DOI

Lin, Jiang, Fredrich Kahrl, Jiahai Yuan, Xu Liu, and Weirong Zhang."Challenges and strategies for electricity market transition in China."Energy Policy 133 (2019) 110899. DOI

Lin, Jiang, Fredrich Kahrl, Jiahai Yuan, Qixin Chen, and Xu Liu."Economic and carbon emission impacts of electricity market transition in China: A case study of Guangdong Province."Applied Energy 238 (2019) 1093 - 1107. DOI

2018

Lin, Jiang, Fredrich Kahrl, and Xu Liu."A regional analysis of excess capacity in China’s power systems."Resources, Conservation and Recycling 129 (2018). DOI

2016

Lin, Jiang, Xu Liu, and Fredrich Kahrl."Excess Capacity in China's Power Systems: A Regional Analysis." (2016).

Kahrl, Fredrich, Andrew D Mills, Luke Lavin, Nancy Ryan, Arne Olsen, and Lisa C Schwartz."The Future of Electricity Resource Planning."Future Electric Utility Regulation Report Series FEUR Report No. 6 (2016).