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

Wei, Max, Gregory J Rosenquist, Katie Coughlin, Edward Cubero, Chao Ding, Thomas A Burke, Omar Abdelaziz, Jackson Thach, Anthony Ng, Jonah Steinbuck, and Drew Bohan."Benefits and Challenges in Using Low GWP A3 Refrigerants in Residential Air Condition Equipment." (2024).

2021

Giammar, Daniel, D.M Greene, Anushka Mishrra, Nalini Rao, Joshua Sperling, Michael Talmadge, Ariel Miara, Kurban A Sitterley, Alana Wilson, Sertac Akar, Parthiv Kurup, Jennifer Stokes-Draut, and Katie Coughlin."Cost and Energy Metrics for Municipal Water ReuseCost and Energy Metrics for Municipal Water Reuse."ACS ES&T Engineering (2021). DOI

Quon, Hunter, Joshua Sperling, Katie Coughlin, David L Greene, Ariel Miara, Sertac Akar, Michael Talmadge, Jennifer Stokes-Draut, Jordan Macknick, and Sunny Jiang."Pipe Parity Analysis of Seawater Desalination in the United States: Exploring Costs, Energy, and Reliability via Case Studies and Scenarios of Emerging Technology."ACS ES&T Engineering (2021). DOI

Grahovac, Milica, Youness Bennani Smires, Thomas A Burke, Katie Coughlin, Mohan Ganeshalingam, Akhil Mathur, Evan Neil, and Akshay Sharma."Adapter Python IO (Adapter) v1.0. Computer Software." (2021). DOI

2020

Grahovac, Milica, Katie Coughlin, Hannes Gerhart, and Robert Hosbach."Multiscale Solar Water Heating." (2020). DOI

Grahovac, Milica, Katie Coughlin, Mohan Ganeshalingam, Robert Hosbach, and Vagelis Vossos."Costs and Benefits of Community Scale Solar Water Heating."2020 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2020).

Coughlin, Katie, Edward Cubero, Akhil Mathur, and Gregory J Rosenquist."Analysis of Space-Conditioning Loads in Commercial Buildings." (2020).

2019

Coughlin, Katie."Utility Sector Impacts of Reduced Electricity Demand: Updates to Methodology and Results." (2019).

Grahovac, Milica, Robert Hosbach, Katie Coughlin, Mohan Ganeshalingam, and Hannes Gerhart."Multiscale Solar Water Heating (MSWH) v1.0." (2019). DOI

Coughlin, Katie, and Bereket Beraki."Non-residential Electricity Prices: A Review of Data Sources and Estimation Methods." (2019).

2018

Coughlin, Katie, and Bereket Beraki."Residential Electricity Prices: A Review of Data Sources and Estimation Methods." (2018).

2014

Coughlin, Katie, Aditya Murthi, and Joseph H Eto."Multi-scale analysis of wind power and load time series data."Renewable Energy 68.August 2014 (2014) 494-504. DOI

Coughlin, Katie."Utility Sector Impacts of Reduced Electricity Demand." (2014).

2013

Coughlin, Katie, Hongxia Shen, Peter T Chan, Brian McDevitt, and Andrew Sturges."Modeling the Capacity and Emissions Impacts of Reduced Electricity Demand." (2013).

Coughlin, Katie."Projections of Full-Fuel-Cycle Energy and Emissions Metrics." (2013).

2012

Coughlin, Katie."A Mathematical Analysis of Full Fuel Cycle Energy Use."Energy 37 (2012). DOI

2010

Coughlin, Katie, and Joseph H Eto."Analysis of Wind Power and Load Data at Multiple Time Scales." (2010).

Eto, Joseph H, John Undrill, Peter Mackin, Ron Daschmans, Ben Williams, Brian Haney, Randy Hunt, Jeff Ellis, Howard F Illian, Carlos A Martinez, Mark O'Malley, Katie Coughlin, and Kristina Hamachi LaCommare."Use of Frequency Response Metrics to Assess the Planning and Operating Requirements for Reliable Integration of Variable Renewable Generation." (2010) 141.

2009

Coughlin, Katie, Mary Ann Piette, Charles A Goldman, and Sila Kiliccote."Statistical analysis of baseline load models for non-residential buildings."Energy and Buildings 41.4 (2009) 374-381. DOI

2008

Coughlin, Katie, and Charles A Goldman."Physical Impacts of Climate Change on the Western US Electricity System: A Scoping Study." (2008) 29.

Coughlin, Katie, Mary Ann Piette, Charles A Goldman, and Sila Kiliccote."Estimating Demand Response Load Impacts: Evaluation of Baseline Load Models for Non- Residential Buildings in California." (2008) 33.

Coughlin, Katie, Mary Ann Piette, Charles A Goldman, and Sila Kiliccote."Estimating Demand Response Load Impacts: Evaluation of Baseline Load Models for Non-Residential Buildings in California." (2008).

2007

Coughlin, Katie."Estimating DR Load Impacts: Evaluation of baseline load models for commercial buildings in California. Preliminary Results." (2007).

2006

Coughlin, Katie, Richard M White, Christopher A Bolduc, Diane C Fisher, and Gregory J Rosenquist."The Tariff Analysis Project: A Database and Analysis Platform for Electricity Tariffs." (2006) 51.

2005

Pinckard, Margaret J, Richard E Brown, Evan Mills, James D Lutz, Mithra M Moezzi, Celina S Atkinson, Christopher A Bolduc, Gregory K Homan, and Katie Coughlin."Documentation of Calculation Methodology, Input Data, and Infrastructure for the Home Energy Saver Web Site." (2005) 108.