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

Homer, Juliet, Rebecca Tapio, Jasmine McAdams, Natalie Mims Frick, Nichole L Hanus, and Sydney Forrester."U.S. Department of Energy-National Lab Equity Summit: Grid Planning and Operations." (2024).

2022

De Martini, Paul, Alan Cooke, Fredrich Kahrl, Lavelle Freeman, Juan Martinez, Elton Prifti, Kim Cullen, Jody Londo, Tim Woolf, Rebecca O'Neil, Dan Boff, Xiangqi Zhu, Seemita Pal, Ron Melton, Lisa C Schwartz, Natalie Mims Frick, and Juliet Homer."New England PUCs training on electricity system planning." (2022).

2021

Homer, Juliet, Tom McDermott, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Cesca Miller, Jeremy Twitchell, Natalie Mims Frick, John Fazio, Robert Lempert, and Rui Yang."Integrated Distribution System Planning Training: Innovations in Electricity Modeling." (2021).

2020

Schneider, Kevin, Emma Stuart, Patrick Dalton, Rois Langner, Jeffrey Taft, Paul De Martini, Debra Lew, Fritz Kahrl, Lisa C Schwartz, Juliet Homer, Cesca Miller, Matt Leach, Natalie Mims Frick, Jeremy Twitchell, Andrew D Mills, Doug Black, Jason S MacDonald, and Michael Kintner-Meyer."Integrated Distribution System Planning training for the Midwest/MISO region." (2020).

2019

Schneider, Kevin, Juliet Homer, and Galen L Barbose."Utah Public Service Commission Workshop on Distributed-Solar Grid Impacts." (2019).

Schneider, Kevin, Emma M Stewart, Barry Mather, Kevin McCabe, Mike Coddington, Joseph H Eto, Lisa C Schwartz, Juliet Homer, Tim Woolf, Paul De Martini, Debra Lew, and Lavelle Freeman."Mid-Atlantic Distribution Systems and Planning Training." (2019).

2018

Cooke, Alan, Juliet Homer, and Lisa C Schwartz."Distribution System Planning – State Examples by Topic." (2018).

2017

Homer, Juliet, Alan Cooke, Lisa C Schwartz, Greg Leventis, Francisco Flores-Espino, and Michael Coddington."State Engagement in Electric Distribution System Planning." (2017).

Schneider, Kevin, Emma Stuart, Murali Baggu, Michael Coddington, Juliet Homer, Lisa C Schwartz, Joseph H Eto, Michael Kintner-Meyer, Mark Newton Lowry, Paul De Martini, Stephen J Rourke, and Andrew D Mills."NECPUC Distribution Systems & Planning Training." (2017).