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)

2024

Frick, Natalie Mims, Lisa C. Schwartz, Julieta Giraldez, Cody Davis, Samir Succar, Ronny Sandoval, Gayathri Krishnamoothy, Tom Wall, Josh A. Schellenberg, Peter H. Larsen, and Neil Weisenfeld."Regional Training: Planning for Distribution Systems, Distributed Energy Resources, and Resilience." (2024).

Schwartz, Lisa C., Natalie Mims Frick, Sean Murphy, Guillermo Pereira, Jessica Shipley, Josh A. Schellenberg, and Alisha Fernandez."State Requirements for Electric Distribution System Planning." (2024).

Frick, Natalie Mims, Lisa C. Schwartz, Julieta Giraldez, Cody Davis, Samir Succar, Ronny Sandoval, Sara Peterson, Tom Wall, Stephen Torres, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Nichole L Hanus, and Josh A. Schellenberg."Western Regional Training: Planning for Distribution Systems, Distributed Energy Resources, and Resilience." (2024).

2023

Schwartz, Lisa C., Natalie Mims Frick, Julieta Giraldez, Cody Davis, Samir Succar, Ronny Sandoval, Eliza Hotchkiss, Josh A. Schellenberg, Tom Wall, Peter H. Larsen, Nichole L Hanus, and Jane Frantz."Eastern Regional Training: Planning for Distribution Systems, Distributed Energy Resources, and Resilience." (2023).

2018

Sullivan, Michael J., Myles T. Collins, Josh A. Schellenberg, and Peter H. Larsen."Estimating Power System Interruption Costs: A Guidebook for Electric Utilities." (2018).

Schellenberg, Josh A., and Peter H. Larsen."Changes to the Underlying Econometric Models for the Interruption Cost Estimate (ICE) Calculator." (2018).

2016

Schellenberg, Josh A., Barney Speckman, and Joseph H Eto."Integrating customer interruption costs into outage management systems."IEEE Transmission and Distribution Conference (2016). DOI

2015

Schellenberg, Josh A.."Using Customer Reliability Benefits to Support Business Cases for Smart Grid Investments." (2015).

Sullivan, Michael J., Josh A. Schellenberg, and Marshall Blundell."Updated Value of Service Reliability Estimates for Electric Utility Customers in the United States." (2015).

2014

Schellenberg, Josh A., Michael J. Sullivan, and Joseph H Eto."Incorporating Customer Interruption Costs into Reliability Planning."2014 IEEE Rural Electric Power Conference (REPC (2014) C1-1 - C1-5. DOI

2010

Sullivan, Michael J., Matthew G. Mercurio, Josh A. Schellenberg, and Joseph H Eto."How to Estimate the Value of Service Reliability Improvements."IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (2010) 5. DOI

2009

Sullivan, Michael J., Matthew G. Mercurio, and Josh A. Schellenberg."Estimated Value of Service Reliability for Electric Utility Customers in the United States." (2009) 130.