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)

2006

Barbose, Galen L., Ryan H. Wiser, and Mark Bolinger."Supporting Photovoltaics in Market-Rate Residential New Construction: A Summary of Programmatic Experience to Date and Lessons Learned." (2006) 30.

Orans, Ren, Snuller Price, Jim Williams, Michael J. Sullivan, Daniel Engel, Bernard Neenan, Doug Mahone, Charles A. Goldman, and Galen L. Barbose."DR Rate and Program Design - RON-02 Phase 2 Proposal." (2006).

Orans, Ren, Snuller Price, Jim Williams, Michael J. Sullivan, Daniel Engel, Bernard Neenan, Doug Mahone, Charles A. Goldman, and Galen L. Barbose."DR Valuation - RON-01 Phase 2 Proposal." (2006).

Barbose, Galen L., Ranjit Bharvirkar, Charles A. Goldman, Nicole C. Hopper, and Bernard Neenan."Killing Two Birds with One Stone: Can Real-Time Pricing Support Retail Competition and Demand Response?."2006 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2006).

2005

Barbose, Galen L., Charles A. Goldman, Ranjit Bharvirkar, Nicole C. Hopper, Michael K. Ting, and Bernard Neenan."Real Time Pricing as a Default or Optional Service for C&I Customers: A Comparative Analysis of Eight Case Studies." (2005) 106.

2004

Barbose, Galen L., Charles A. Goldman, and Bernard Neenan."A Survey of Utility Experience with Real Time Pricing." (2004) 127.

Foster, Dale, Ben Hough, Galen L. Barbose, William H. Golove, and Charles A. Goldman."Using Energy Information Systems (EIS): A Guidebook for the U.S. Postal Service." (2004) 40.

2003

Blumstein, Carl, Charles A. Goldman, and Galen L. Barbose."Who Should Administer Energy Efficiency Programs?." (2003) 24.

Neenan, Bernard, Donna Pratt, Peter Cappers, James Doane, Jeremey Anderson, Richard Boisvert, Charles A. Goldman, Osman Sezgen, Galen L. Barbose, Ranjit Bharvirkar, Michael Kintner-Meyer, Steve Shankle, and Derrick Bates."How and Why Customers Respond to Electricity Price Variability: A Study of NYISO and NYSERDA 2002 PRL Program Performance." (2003) 376.

2002

Goldman, Charles A., Joseph H Eto, and Galen L. Barbose."California Customer Load Reductions during the Electricity Crisis: Did they Help to Keep the Lights On?." (2002) 39.

Goldman, Charles A., Grayson C. Heffner, and Galen L. Barbose."Customer Load Participation in Wholesale Markets: Summer 2001 Results, Lessons Learned and “Best Practices”." (2002) 19.