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)

2019

Riva, Alberto Dalla, János Hethey, Silke Lüers, Anna-Kathrin Wallasch, Knud Rehfeldt, Aidan Duffy, David Edward Weir, Maria Stenkvist, Andreas Uihlein, Tyler Stehly, Eric Lantz, Ryan H Wiser, and M Maureen Hand."IEA Wind TCP Task 26‒Wind Technology, Cost, and Performance Trends in Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, the European Union, and the United States: 2008‒2016." (2019).

2017

Moné, Christopher, M Maureen Hand, Mark Bolinger, Joseph Rand, Donna Heimiller, and Jonathan Ho."2015 Cost of Wind Energy Review." (2017).

2016

Wiser, Ryan H, Karen Jenni, Joachim Seel, Erin Baker, M Maureen Hand, Eric Lantz, and Aaron Smith."Expert elicitation survey on future wind energy costs."Nature Energy 1.10 (2016) 16135. DOI

Wiser, Ryan H, Karen Jenni, Joachim Seel, Erin Baker, M Maureen Hand, Eric Lantz, and Aaron Smith."Forecasting Wind Energy Costs and Cost Drivers: The Views of the World’s Leading Experts." (2016).

2015

Vitina, Aisma, Silke Lüers, Anna-Kathrin Wallasch, Volker Berkhout, Aidan Duffy, Brendan Cleary, Lief I Husabø, David E Weir, Roberto Lacal-Arántegui, M Maureen Hand, Eric Lantz, Kathy Belyeu, Ryan H Wiser, Mark Bolinger, and Ben Hoen."IEA Wind Task 26: Wind Technology, Cost, and Performance Trends in Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Norway, the European Union, and the United States: 2007–2012." (2015).

2014

Arent, Douglas J, Jacquelyn Pless, Trieu Mai, Ryan H Wiser, M Maureen Hand, Samuel F Baldwin, Garvin A Heath, Jordan Macknick, Morgan Bazilian, Adam Schlosser, and Paul Denholm."Implications of high renewable electricity penetration in the U.S. for water use, greenhouse gas emissions, land-use, and materials supply."Applied Energy 123 (2014) 368 - 377. DOI

Mai, Trieu, M Maureen Hand, Samuel F Baldwin, Ryan H Wiser, Greg L Brinkman, Paul Denholm, Douglas J Arent, Gian Porro, Debra Sandor, Donna J Hostick, Michael Milligan, Edgar A DeMeo, and Morgan Bazilian."Renewable Electricity Futures for the United States."IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy 5.2 (2014) 372 - 378. DOI

2012

Lantz, Eric, Ryan H Wiser, M Maureen Hand, Athanasia Arapogianni, Alberto Ceña, Emilien Simonot, and Edward James-Smith."IEA Wind Task 26: The Past And Future Cost Of Wind Energy." (2012).

Wiser, Ryan H, Eric Lantz, Mark Bolinger, and M Maureen Hand."Recent Developments in the Levelized Cost of Energy from U.S. Wind Power Projects." (2012).