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)

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).

2013

Feldman, David, Galen L Barbose, Robert Margolis, Naïm R Darghouth, Ted James, Samantha Weaver, Alan Goodrich, and Ryan H Wiser."Photovoltaic System Pricing Trends: Historical, Recent, and Near-Term Projections - 2013 Edition." (2013).

Wiser, Ryan H, Mark Bolinger, Galen L Barbose, Naïm R Darghouth, Ben Hoen, Andrew D Mills, Samantha Weaver, Kevin Porter, Michael Buckley, Sari Fink, Frank Oteri, and Suzanne Tegen."2012 Wind Technologies Market Report." (2013).

Barbose, Galen L, Naïm R Darghouth, Samantha Weaver, and Ryan H Wiser."Tracking the Sun VI: An Historical Summary of the Installed Price of Photovoltaics in the United States from 1998 to 2012." (2013).

Satchwell, Andrew, Galen L Barbose, Charles A Goldman, Ryan Hledik, and Ahmed Faruqui."Incorporating Demand Response into Western Interconnection Transmission Planning." (2013).

Seel, Joachim, Galen L Barbose, and Ryan H Wiser."An Analysis of Residential PV System Price Differences Between the United States and Germany."39th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (2013). DOI

Seel, Joachim, Galen L Barbose, and Ryan H Wiser."An Analysis of Residential PV System Price Differences Between the United States and Germany."American Solar Energy Society Annual Meeting (2013).

Seel, Joachim, Galen L Barbose, and Ryan H Wiser."Why Are Residential PV Prices in Germany So Much Lower Than in the United States? A Scoping Analysis." (2013).

Darghouth, Naïm R, Galen L Barbose, and Ryan H Wiser."Electricity Bill Savings from Residential Photovoltaic Systems: Sensitivities to Changes in Future Electricity Market Conditions." (2013).

Barbose, Galen L, Charles A Goldman, Ian M Hoffman, and Megan A Billingsley."The Future of Utility Customer-Funded Energy Efficiency Programs in the United States: Projected Spending and Savings to 2025." (2013). DOI

2012

Ardani, Kristen, Galen L Barbose, Robert Margolis, Ryan H Wiser, David Feldman, and Sean Ong."Benchmarking Non-Hardware Balance of System (Soft) Costs for U.S. Photovoltaic Systems Using a Data-Driven Analysis from PV Installer Survey Results." (2012).