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)

2023

Kemp, Julie Mulvaney, Joachim Seel, Will Gorman, Joseph Rand, Ryan H Wiser, Will Cotton, and Kevin Porter."Interconnection Cost Analysis in ISO-New England." (2023).

Seel, Joachim, Julie Mulvaney Kemp, Joseph Rand, Will Gorman, Dev Millstein, Ryan H Wiser, Ari Weissfeld, Nicholas DiSanti, and Kevin Porter."Generator Interconnection Cost Analysis in the Southwest Power Pool (SPP) Territory." (2023).

Kemp, Julie Mulvaney, Joachim Seel, Joseph Rand, Dev Millstein, Fredrich Kahrl, Will Gorman, Ryan H Wiser, Will Cotton, and Kevin Porter."Interconnection Cost Analysis in the NYISO Territory." (2023).

Seel, Joachim, Joseph Rand, Will Gorman, Dev Millstein, Ryan H Wiser, Will Cotton, Katherine Fisher, Olivia Kuykendall, Ari Weissfeld, and Kevin Porter."Interconnection Cost Analysis in the PJM Territory." (2023).

2022

Seel, Joachim, Joseph Rand, Will Gorman, Dev Millstein, Ryan H Wiser, Will Cotton, Nicholas DiSanti, and Kevin Porter."Generator Interconnection Cost Analysis in the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) territory." (2022).

2016

Wiser, Ryan H, Mark Bolinger, Galen L Barbose, Naïm R Darghouth, Ben Hoen, Andrew D Mills, Joseph Rand, Dev Millstein, Kevin Porter, Rebecca Widiss, Frank Oteri, Suzanne Tegen, and Tian Tian."2015 Wind Technologies Market Report." (2016).

2015

Wiser, Ryan H, Mark Bolinger, Galen L Barbose, Naïm R Darghouth, Ben Hoen, Andrew D Mills, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Dev Millstein, Dana Hansen, Kevin Porter, Rebecca Widiss, Michael Buckley, Frank Oteri, Aaron Smith, and Suzanne Tegen."2014 Wind Technologies Market Report." (2015).

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).

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).

2012

Wiser, Ryan H, Mark Bolinger, Galen L Barbose, Naïm R Darghouth, Ben Hoen, Andrew D Mills, Kevin Porter, Michael Buckley, Sari Fink, Frank Oteri, and Suzanne Tegen."2011 Wind Technologies Market Report." (2012).

Mills, Andrew D, Ryan H Wiser, and Kevin Porter."The cost of transmission for wind energy in the United States: A review of transmission planning studies."Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 16.1 (2012) 19. DOI

2011

Wiser, Ryan H, Mark Bolinger, Naïm R Darghouth, Kevin Porter, Michael Buckley, Sari Fink, Russell Raymond, Frank Oteri, Galen L Barbose, Joachim Seel, Andrew D Mills, and Ben Hoen."2010 Wind Technologies Market Report." (2011) 98.

2010

Wiser, Ryan H, Mark Bolinger, Galen L Barbose, Naïm R Darghouth, Ben Hoen, Andrew D Mills, Kevin Porter, Sari Fink, and Suzanne Tegen."2009 Wind Technologies Market Report." (2010) 88.

2009

Mills, Andrew D, Ryan H Wiser, and Kevin Porter."The Cost of Transmission for Wind Energy: A Review of Transmission Planning Studies." (2009) 66.

2005

Wiser, Ryan H, Mark Bolinger, Kevin Porter, and Heather Raitt."Does It Have To Be This Hard? Implementing the Nation’s Most Aggressive Renewables Portfolio Standard in California." (2005) 20.

2004

Wiser, Ryan H, Kevin Porter, and Robert Grace."Evaluating Experience with Renewables Portfolio Standards in the United States." (2004) 45.

2002

Wiser, Ryan H, Mark Bolinger, Lewis Milford, Kevin Porter, and Roger Clark."Innovation, Renewable Energy, and State Investment: Case Studies of Leading Clean Energy Funds." (2002) 144.

Porter, Kevin, Mark Bolinger, and Ryan H Wiser."Massachusetts’ Green Buildings Program."Case Studies of State Support for Renewable Energy (2002) 8.

Bolinger, Mark, and Kevin Porter."Renewable Energy Loan Programs."Case Studies of State Support for Renewable Energy (2002) 9.

Porter, Kevin, Ryan H Wiser, and Mark Bolinger."Two Different Approaches to Funding Farm-Based Biogas Projects in Wisconsin and California."Case Studies of State Support for Renewable Energy (2002) 7.

Bolinger, Mark, Kevin Porter, and Ryan H Wiser."Using Bulk Purchase Commitments to Foster Sustained Orderly Development and Commercialization of PV."Case Studies of State Support for Renewable Energy (2002) 8.

2001

Bolinger, Mark, Ryan H Wiser, Lewis Milford, Michael Stoddard, and Kevin Porter."Clean Energy Funds: An Overview of State Support for Renewable Energy." (2001) 121.

1999

Wiser, Ryan H, Jeff Fang, Kevin Porter, and Ashley Houston."Green Power Marketing in Retail Competition: An Early Assessment." (1999) 30.