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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.
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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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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 by Research Area

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Publications

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2023

Bolinger, Mark, Will Gorman, Joseph Rand, and Seongeun Jeong."Hybrid Power Plants: Status of Operating and Proposed Plants, 2023 Edition." (2023).

Wiser, Ryan H., Mark Bolinger, Ben Hoen, Dev Millstein, Joseph Rand, Galen L. Barbose, Naïm R. Darghouth, Will Gorman, Seongeun Jeong, Eric O'Shaughnessy, and Bentham Paulos."Land-Based Wind Market Report: 2023 Edition." (2023).

Bolinger, Mark, and Bentham Paulos."Revisiting Community Wind Through the Lens of Community Solar." (2023).

Bolinger, Mark, Dev Millstein, Will Gorman, Patrick Dobson, and Seongeun Jeong."Mind the gap: Comparing the net value of geothermal, wind, solar, and solar+storage in the Western United States."Renewable Energy 205 (2023) 999-1009. DOI

Kim, James Hyungkwan, Mark Bolinger, Andrew D. Mills, and Ryan H. Wiser."Rethinking the Role of Financial Transmission Rights in Wind-Rich Electricity Markets in the Central U.S.."The Energy Journal 44.6 (2023). DOI

2022

Bolinger, Mark, Joachim Seel, Cody Warner, and Dana Robson."Utility-Scale Solar, 2022 Edition: Empirical Trends in Deployment, Technology, Cost, Performance, PPA Pricing, and Value in the United States." (2022).

Bolinger, Mark, Will Gorman, Joseph Rand, Seongeun Jeong, Ryan H. Wiser, Joachim Seel, and Cody Warner."Hybrid Power Plants: Status of Operating and Proposed Plants, 2022 Edition." (2022).

Wiser, Ryan H., Mark Bolinger, Ben Hoen, Dev Millstein, Joseph Rand, Galen L. Barbose, Naïm R. Darghouth, Will Gorman, Seongeun Jeong, and Bentham Paulos."Land-Based Wind Market Report: 2022 Edition." (2022).

Seel, Joachim, Will Gorman, Galen L. Barbose, Mark Bolinger, Cristina Crespo Montañés, Sydney Forrester, James Hyungkwan Kim, Fredrich Kahrl, Andrew D. Mills, Dev Millstein, Bentham Paulos, Joseph Rand, Cody Warner, and Ryan H. Wiser."Batteries Included: Top 10 Findings from Berkeley Lab Research on the Growth of Hybrid Power Plants in the United States." (2022).

Bolinger, Mark, Will Gorman, Dev Millstein, and Dirk C. Jordan."Plant-level performance and degradation of 31 GW-DC of utility-scale PV in the United States." (2022).

Millstein, Dev, Mark Bolinger, and Ryan H. Wiser."What can surface wind observations tell us about interannual variation in wind energy output?."Wind Energy (2022). DOI

Bolinger, Mark, and Greta Bolinger."Land Requirements for Utility-Scale PV: An Empirical Update on Power and Energy Density."IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics (2022). DOI

Bolinger, Mark, Ryan H. Wiser, and Eric O'Shaughnessy."Levelized cost-based learning analysis of utility-scale wind and solar in the United States."iScience 25.6 (2022). DOI

2021

Kim, James Hyungkwan, Andrew D. Mills, Ryan H. Wiser, Mark Bolinger, Will Gorman, Cristina Crespo Montañés, and Eric O'Shaughnessy."Project developer options to enhance the value of solar electricity as solar and storage penetrations increase."Applied Energy 304 (2021). DOI

Seel, Joachim, Dev Millstein, Andrew D. Mills, Mark Bolinger, and Ryan H. Wiser."Plentiful electricity turns wholesale prices negative."Advances in Applied Energy 4 (2021). DOI

Bolinger, Mark, Joachim Seel, Cody Warner, and Dana Robson."Utility-Scale Solar, 2021 Edition: Empirical Trends in Deployment, Technology, Cost, Performance, PPA Pricing, and Value in the United States." (2021).

Wiser, Ryan H., Mark Bolinger, Ben Hoen, Dev Millstein, Joseph Rand, Galen L. Barbose, Naïm R. Darghouth, Will Gorman, Seongeun Jeong, Andrew D. Mills, and Ben Paulos."Land-Based Wind Market Report: 2021 Edition." (2021).

Bolinger, Mark, Will Gorman, Joseph Rand, Ryan H. Wiser, Seongeun Jeong, Joachim Seel, Cody Warner, and Bentham Paulos."Hybrid Power Plants: Status of Installed and Proposed Projects." (2021).

Millstein, Dev, Ryan H. Wiser, Andrew D. Mills, Mark Bolinger, Joachim Seel, and Seongeun Jeong."Solar and wind grid system value in the United States: The effect of transmission congestion, generation profiles, and curtailment."Joule (2021). DOI

Rand, Joseph, Mark Bolinger, Ryan H. Wiser, Seongeun Jeong, and Bentham Paulos."Queued Up: Characteristics of Power Plants Seeking Transmission Interconnection As of the End of 2020." (2021).

Mills, Andrew D., Joachim Seel, Dev Millstein, James Hyungkwan Kim, Mark Bolinger, Will Gorman, Yuhan Wang, Seongeun Jeong, and Ryan H. Wiser."Solar-to-Grid: Trends in System Impacts, Reliability, and Market Value in the United States with Data Through 2019." (2021).

2020

Bolinger, Mark, Joachim Seel, Dana Robson, and Cody Warner."Utility-Scale Solar Data Update: 2020 Edition." (2020).

Wiser, Ryan H., Mark Bolinger, Ben Hoen, Dev Millstein, Joseph Rand, Galen L. Barbose, Naïm R. Darghouth, Will Gorman, Seongeun Jeong, Andrew D. Mills, and Ben Paulos."Wind Energy Technology Data Update: 2020 Edition." (2020).

Wiser, Ryan H., Dev Millstein, Mark Bolinger, Seongeun Jeong, and Andrew D. Mills."The hidden value of large-rotor, tall-tower wind turbines in the United States."Wind Engineering (2020). DOI

Wiser, Ryan H., Mark Bolinger, Will Gorman, Joseph Rand, Seongeun Jeong, Joachim Seel, Cody Warner, and Ben Paulos."Hybrid Power Plants: Status of Installed and Proposed Projects." (2020).

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