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 by Research Area

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Publications

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2016

Barbose, Galen L., John Miller, Ben Sigrin, Emerson Reiter, Karlynn Cory, Joyce McLaren, Joachim Seel, Andrew D. Mills, Naïm R. Darghouth, and Andrew Satchwell."Utility Regulatory and Business Model Reforms for Addressing the Financial Impacts of Distributed Solar on Utilities." On the Path to Sunshot (2016).

Barbose, Galen L.."U.S. Renewables Portfolio Standards 2016 Annual Status Report." (2016).

Nemet, Gregory, Eric O'Shaughnessy, Ryan H. Wiser, Naïm R. Darghouth, Galen L. Barbose, Kenneth Gillingham, and Varun Rai."Characteristics of Low-Priced Solar Photovoltaic Systems in the United States." (2016).

Darghouth, Naïm R., Ryan H. Wiser, Galen L. Barbose, and Andrew D. Mills."Net metering and market feedback loops: Exploring the impact of retail rate design on distributed PV deployment."Applied Energy 162 (2016). DOI

Wiser, Ryan H., Galen L. Barbose, Jenny Heeter, Trieu Mai, Lori Bird, Mark Bolinger, Alberta Carpenter, Garvin A. Heath, David Keyser, Jordan Macknick, Andrew D. Mills, and Dev Millstein."A Retrospective Analysis of the Benefits and Impacts of U.S. Renewable Portfolio Standards." (2016).

2015

Barbose, Galen L., Lori Bird, Jenny Heeter, Francisco Flores, and Ryan H. Wiser."Costs and Benefits of Renewables Portfolio Standards in the United States."Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 52 (2015) 523-533. DOI

Feldman, David, Galen L. Barbose, Robert Margolis, Mark Bolinger, Donald Chung, Ran Fu, Joachim Seel, Carolyn Davidson, and Ryan H. Wiser."Photovoltaic System Pricing Trends: Historical, Recent, and Near-Term Projections." (2015).

Wiser, Ryan H., Mark Bolinger, Galen L. Barbose, Naïm R. Darghouth, Ben Hoen, Andrew D. Mills, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Dev Millstein, Dana Hansen, Kevin Porter, Rebecca Widiss, Michael Buckley, Frank Oteri, Aaron Smith, and Suzanne Tegen."2014 Wind Technologies Market Report." (2015).

Barbose, Galen L., Naïm R. Darghouth, Dev Millstein, Michael Spears, Ryan H. Wiser, Michael Buckley, Rebecca Widiss, and Nick Grue."Tracking the Sun VIII: The Installed Price of Residential and Non-Residential Photovoltaic Systems in the United States." (2015).

Darghouth, Naïm R., Ryan H. Wiser, Galen L. Barbose, and Andrew D. Mills."Net Metering and Market Feedback Loops: Exploring the Impact of Retail Rate Design on Distributed PV Deployment." (2015).

2014

Gillingham, Kenneth, Hao Deng, Ryan H. Wiser, Naïm R. Darghouth, Gregory Nemet, Galen L. Barbose, Varun Rai, and Changgui Dong."Deconstructing Solar Photovoltaic Pricing: The Role of Market Structure, Technology and Policy." (2014).

Barbose, Galen L., Jenny Heeter, Lori Bird, Samantha Weaver, Francisco Flores-Espino, and Ryan H. Wiser."Costs and Benefits of U.S. Renewables Portfolio Standards."International Associaton for Energy Economics Energy Forum Third Quarter 2014 (2014).

Satchwell, Andrew, Andrew D. Mills, Galen L. Barbose, Ryan H. Wiser, Peter Cappers, and Naïm R. Darghouth."Financial Impacts of Net-Metered PV on Utilities and Ratepayers: A Scoping Study of Two Prototypical U.S. Utilities." (2014).

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

Feldman, David, Galen L. Barbose, Robert Margolis, Ted James, Samantha Weaver, Naïm R. Darghouth, Ran Fu, Carolyn Davidson, Sam Booth, and Ryan H. Wiser."Photovoltaic System Pricing Trends: Historical, Recent, and Near-Term Projections - 2014 Edition." (2014).

Barbose, Galen L., Samantha Weaver, and Naïm R. Darghouth."Tracking the Sun VII: An Historical Summary of the Installed Price of Photovoltaics in the United States from 1998-2013." (2014).

Wiser, Ryan H., Mark Bolinger, Galen L. Barbose, Naïm R. Darghouth, Ben Hoen, Andrew D. Mills, Samantha Weaver, Kevin Porter, Michael Buckley, Frank Oteri, and Suzanne Tegen."2013 Wind Technologies Market Report." (2014).

Seel, Joachim, Galen L. Barbose, and Ryan H. Wiser."An Analysis of Residential PV System Price Differences Between the United States and Germany."Energy Policy 69.June 2014 (2014). DOI

Rickerson, Wilson, Toby Couture, Galen L. Barbose, David Jacobs, Giles Parkinson, Emily Chessin, Andy Belden, Holly Wilson, and Henry Barrett."Residential Prosumers: Drivers and Policy Options (Re-Prosumers)." (2014).

Heeter, Jenny, Galen L. Barbose, Lori Bird, Samantha Weaver, Francisco Flores, Ksenia Kuskova-Burns, and Ryan H. Wiser."A Survey of State-Level Cost and Benefit Estimates of Renewable Portfolio Standards." (2014).

Darghouth, Naïm R., Galen L. Barbose, and Ryan H. Wiser."Customer-economics of residential photovoltaic systems (Part 1): The impact of high renewable energy penetrations on electricity bill savings with net metering."Energy Policy 67 (2014) 290 - 300. DOI

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

Wilkerson, Jordan, Peter H. Larsen, and Galen L. Barbose."Survey of Western U.S. Electric Utility Resource Plans."Energy Policy 66 (2014) 90-103. DOI

Barbose, Galen L., Naïm R. Darghouth, Samantha Weaver, David Feldman, Robert Margolis, and Ryan H. Wiser."Tracking US photovoltaic system prices 1998-2012: a rapidly changing market."Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications (2014) n/a - n/a. DOI

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

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