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

Barbose, Galen L.."U.S. Renewables Portfolio Standards 2021 Status Update: Early Release." (2021).

2020

Barbose, Galen L., Naïm R. Darghouth, Eric O'Shaughnessy, and Sydney Forrester."Distributed Solar 2020 Data Update." (2020).

Darghouth, Naïm R., Galen L. Barbose, Jarett Zuboy, Pieter Gagnon, Andrew D. Mills, and Lori Bird."Demand charge savings from solar PV and energy storage."Energy Policy 146 (2020). DOI

O'Shaughnessy, Eric, Galen L. Barbose, Ryan H. Wiser, Sydney Forrester, and Naïm R. Darghouth."The impact of policies and business models on income equity in rooftop solar adoption."Nature Energy (2020). DOI

O'Shaughnessy, Eric, Galen L. Barbose, and Ryan H. Wiser."Patience is a virtue: A data-driven analysis of rooftop solar PV permitting timelines in the United States."Energy Policy 144 (2020). DOI

Barbose, Galen L., and Andrew Satchwell."Benefits and costs of a utility-ownership business model for residential rooftop solar photovoltaics."Nature Energy (2020). DOI

Wiser, Ryan H., Mark Bolinger, Ben Hoen, Dev Millstein, Joseph Rand, Galen L. Barbose, Naïm R. Darghouth, Will Gorman, Seongeun Jeong, Andrew D. Mills, and Bentham Paulos."Wind Energy Technology Data Update: 2020 Edition." (2020).

Barbose, Galen L., Sydney Forrester, Naïm R. Darghouth, and Ben Hoen."Income Trends among U.S. Residential Rooftop Solar Adopters." (2020).

2019

Barbose, Galen L., and Naïm R. Darghouth."Tracking the Sun: Pricing and Design Trends for Distributed Photovoltaic Systems in the United States - 2019 Edition." (2019).

Darghouth, Naïm R., Galen L. Barbose, and Andrew D. Mills."Implications of Rate Design for the Customer-Economics of Behind-the-Meter Storage." (2019).

Satchwell, Andrew, Peter Cappers, and Galen L. Barbose."Current Developments in Retail Rate Design: Implications for Solar and Other Distributed Energy Resources." (2019).

Barbose, Galen L.."U.S. Renewables Portfolio Standards: 2019 Annual Status Update." (2019).

Schneider, Kevin, Juliet Homer, and Galen L. Barbose."Utah Public Service Commission Workshop on Distributed-Solar Grid Impacts." (2019).

2018

Barbose, Galen L.."U.S. Renewables Portfolio Standards: 2018 Annual Status Report." (2018).

Wiser, Ryan H., Naïm R. Darghouth, Ben Hoen, Galen L. Barbose, Joachim Seel, Varun Rai, Ariane Beck, Ashok Sekar, D. Cale Reeves, Erik Funkhouser, Eric O'Shaughnessy, Ben Sigrin, and Casey Canfield."Diffusion of Innovations: Interplay of Social, Economic, Technological, and Policy Drivers in the Solar Industry—Summary of UT Austin Student Capstone Research Projects." (2018).

Barbose, Galen L., Naïm R. Darghouth, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Dev Millstein, and Joseph Rand."Tracking the Sun: Installed Price Trends for Distributed Photovoltaic Systems in the United States - 2018 Edition." (2018).

Gagnon, Pieter, Galen L. Barbose, Brady Stoll, Ali Ehlen, Jarett Zuboy, Trieu Mai, and Andrew D. Mills."Estimating the Value of Improved Distributed Photovoltaic Adoption Forecasts for Utility Resource Planning." (2018).

Barbose, Galen L., Naïm R. Darghouth, Ben Hoen, and Ryan H. Wiser."Income Trends of Residential PV Adopters: An analysis of household-level income estimates." (2018).

2017

Gagnon, Pieter, Anand Govindarajan, Lori Bird, Galen L. Barbose, Naïm R. Darghouth, and Andrew D. Mills."Solar + Storage Synergies for Managing Commercial-Customer Demand Charges." (2017).

Barbose, Galen L., Naïm R. Darghouth, Dev Millstein, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Nicholas DiSanti, and Rebecca Widiss."Tracking the Sun X: The Installed Price of Residential and Non-Residential Photovoltaic Systems in the United States." (2017).

Millstein, Dev, Ryan H. Wiser, Mark Bolinger, and Galen L. Barbose."The climate and air-quality benefits of wind and solar power in the United States."Nature Energy 2 (2017). DOI

Darghouth, Naïm R., Galen L. Barbose, Andrew D. Mills, Ryan H. Wiser, Pieter Gagnon, and Lori Bird."Exploring Demand Charge Savings from Commercial Solar." (2017).

Barbose, Galen L.."U.S. Renewables Portfolio Standards: 2017 Annual Status Report." (2017).

Nemet, Gregory, Eric O’Shaughnessy, Ryan H. Wiser, Naïm R. Darghouth, Galen L. Barbose, Ken Gillingham, and Varun Rai."Sources of Price Dispersion in U.S. Residential Solar Installations." (2017).

Wiser, Ryan H., Galen L. Barbose, and Mark Bolinger."Retail Rate Impacts of Renewable Electricity: Some First Thoughts." (2017).