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)

2020

Chalasani, Sravan, Clayton Johnson, Molly Morabito, Alexander Newkirk, Liyang Wang, Ian M Hoffman, and Christopher T Payne."Messaging for Impact: Behavioral Science-Based Communication Strategies to Advance Energy Efficiency."ACEEE 2020 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2020). DOI

Sutter, Mary, Jenn Mitchell-Jackson, Steven R Schiller, Lisa C Schwartz, and Ian M Hoffman."Applying Non-Energy Impacts from Other Jurisdictions in Cost-Benefit Analyses of Energy Efficiency Programs: Resources for States for Utility Customer-Funded Programs." (2020).

Schiller, Steven R, Ian M Hoffman, Sean Murphy, Greg Leventis, and Lisa C Schwartz."Cost of saving natural gas through efficiency programs funded by utility customers: 2012–2017." (2020).

Goldman, Charles A, Ian M Hoffman, Sean Murphy, Natalie Mims Frick, Greg Leventis, and Lisa C Schwartz."The Cost of Saving Electricity: A Multi-Program Cost Curve for Programs Funded by U.S. Utility Customers."Energies 13 (2020). DOI

Goldman, Charles A, Sean Murphy, Ian M Hoffman, Natalie Mims Frick, Greg Leventis, and Lisa C Schwartz."What does the future hold for utility electricity efficiency programs?."The Electricity Journal 33.4 (2020). DOI

2019

Schwartz, Lisa C, Ian M Hoffman, Steven R Schiller, Sean Murphy, and Greg Leventis."Cost of Saving Electricity Through Efficiency Programs Funded by Customers of Publicly Owned Utilities: 2012–2017." (2019).

Frick, Natalie Mims, Ian M Hoffman, Charles A Goldman, Greg Leventis, Sean Murphy, and Lisa C Schwartz."Peak Demand Impacts From Electricity Efficiency Programs." (2019).

2018

Goldman, Charles A, Sean Murphy, Ian M Hoffman, Natalie Mims Frick, Greg Leventis, and Lisa C Schwartz."The Future of U.S. Electricity Efficiency Programs Funded by Utility Customers: Program Spending and Savings Projections to 2030." (2018).

Hoffman, Ian M, Charles A Goldman, Sean Murphy, Natalie Mims Frick, Greg Leventis, and Lisa C Schwartz."The Cost of Saving Electricity Through Energy Efficiency Programs Funded by Utility Customers: 2009–2015." (2018).

2017

Grevatt, Jim, Ian M Hoffman, and Dale Hoffmeyer."Keys to the House: Unlocking Residential Savings With Program Models for Home Energy Upgrades." (2017).

Hoffman, Ian M, Charles A Goldman, Gregory M Rybka, Greg Leventis, Lisa C Schwartz, Alan H Sanstad, and Steven R Schiller."Estimating the cost of saving electricity through U.S. utility customer-funded energy efficiency programs."Energy Policy 104 (2017) 1-12. DOI

Cutter, Eric, Kiran Chawla, and Ian M Hoffman."Better Buildings Residential Energy Efficiency Cost-Effectiveness Tool Version 2.0." (2017).

Hoffman, Ian M."Gauging the Impact of Various Definitions of Low- and Moderate-Income Communities on Possible Electricity Savings From Weatherization." (2017).

Hoffman, Ian M, Greg Leventis, and Charles A Goldman."Trends in the Program Administrator Cost of Saving Electricity for Utility Customer-Funded Energy Efficiency Programs." (2017).

2016

Hoffman, Alex, Gregory M Rybka, David Shephard-Gaw, Ian M Hoffman, Charles A Goldman, and Lisa C Schwartz."Energy Efficiency Reporting Tool for Public Power Utilities." (2016).

2015

Rybka, Gregory M, Ian M Hoffman, Charles A Goldman, and Lisa C Schwartz."Flexible and Consistent Reporting for Energy Efficiency Programs: Introducing a New Tool for Reporting Spending and Savings for Programs Funded by Utility Customers." (2015).

Hoffman, Ian M, Steven R Schiller, Annika Todd-Blick, Megan A Billingsley, Charles A Goldman, and Lisa C Schwartz."Energy Savings Lifetimes and Persistence: Practices, Issues and Data." (2015).

Hoffman, Ian M, Gregory M Rybka, Greg Leventis, Charles A Goldman, Lisa C Schwartz, Megan A Billingsley, and Steven R Schiller."The Total Cost of Saving Electricity Through Utility Customer-Funded Energy Efficiency Programs: Estimates at the National, State, Sector and Program Level." (2015).

2014

Zimring, Mark, Greg Leventis, Charles A Goldman, Merrian Borgeson, Peter J Thompson, and Ian M Hoffman."On-Bill Finance: From Policy to Promise to Practice."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Zimring, Mark, Greg Leventis, Merrian Borgeson, Peter J Thompson, Ian M Hoffman, and Charles A Goldman."Financing Energy Improvements on Utility Bills: Market Updates and Program Design Considerations for Policymakers and Administrators." (2014).

Billingsley, Megan A, Ian M Hoffman, Elizabeth Stuart, Steven R Schiller, Charles A Goldman, and Kristina Hamachi LaCommare."The Program Administrator Cost of Saved Energy for Utility Customer-Funded Energy Efficiency Programs." (2014).

Hoffman, Ian M, Gregory M Rybka, Greg Leventis, Charles A Goldman, and Lisa C Schwartz."The Total Cost of Saving Electricity Through Utility Customer-Funded Energy Efficiency Programs." (2014).

2013

Hoffman, Ian M, Megan A Billingsley, Steven R Schiller, Charles A Goldman, and Elizabeth Stuart."Energy Efficiency Program Typology and Data Metrics: Enabling Multi-State Analyses Through the Use of Common Terminology." (2013).

Hoffman, Ian M, Mark Zimring, and Steven R Schiller."Assessing Natural Gas Energy Efficiency Programs in a Low-Price Environment." (2013).

Hoffman, Ian M, Merrian Borgeson, and Mark Zimring."Implications of Cost Effectiveness Screening Practices in a Low Natural Gas Price Environment: Case Study of a Midwestern Residential Energy Upgrade Program." (2013).