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)

2008

Hopper, Nicole C, Galen L Barbose, Charles A Goldman, and Jeff Schlegel."Energy Efficiency as a Preferred Resource: Evidence from Utility Resource Plans in the Western United States and Canada."Energy Efficiency Journal Volume 2, Number 1 (2008) 24. DOI

2007

Goldman, Charles A, Nicole C Hopper, Ranjit Bharvirkar, Bernard Neenan, and Peter Cappers."A Methodology for Estimating Large-Customer Demand Response Market Potential." (2007) 19.

Hopper, Nicole C, Charles A Goldman, Donald Gilligan, Terry E Singer, and David Birr."A Survey of the U.S. ESCO Industry: Market Growth and Development from 2000 to 2006." (2007) 37.

Hopper, Nicole C, Charles A Goldman, Ranjit Bharvirkar, and Daniel Engel."The Summer of 2006: A Milestone in the Ongoing Maturation of Demand Response." (2007) 22.

Goldman, Charles A, Nicole C Hopper, Ranjit Bharvirkar, Bernard Neenan, and Peter Cappers."Estimating Demand Response Market Potential among Large Commercial and Industrial Customers: A Scoping Study." (2007) 89.

2006

Hopper, Nicole C, Charles A Goldman, and Jeff Schlegel."Energy Efficiency in Western Utility Resource Plans: Impacts on Regional Resource Assessment and Support for WGA Policies." (2006) 68.

Barbose, Galen L, Ranjit Bharvirkar, Charles A Goldman, Nicole C Hopper, and Bernard Neenan."Killing Two Birds with One Stone: Can Real-Time Pricing Support Retail Competition and Demand Response?." (2006) 14.

Hopper, Nicole C, Charles A Goldman, and Bernard Neenan."Not All Large Customers Are Made Alike: Disaggregating Response to Default-Service Day-Ahead Market Pricing."2006 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2006).

Hopper, Nicole C, Charles A Goldman, and Bernard Neenan."Not All Large Customers Are Made Alike: Disaggregating Response to Default-Service Day-Ahead Market Pricing." (2006) 17.

Hopper, Nicole C, Charles A Goldman, Ranjit Bharvirkar, and Bernard Neenan."Customer Response to Day-Ahead Market Hourly Pricing: Choices and Performance." (2006) 30. DOI

Hopper, Nicole C, Charles A Goldman, Ranjit Bharvirkar, and Bernard Neenan."Customer Response to Day-Ahead Market Hourly Pricing: Choices and Performance." 14.2 (2006) 126-134. DOI

Hopper, Nicole C, Charles A Goldman, and Bernard Neenan."Demand Response from Day-Ahead Hourly Pricing for Large Customers." (2006) 19.

Barbose, Galen L, Charles A Goldman, Ranjit Bharvirkar, Nicole C Hopper, Michael K Ting, and Bernard Neenan."Real Time Pricing as a Default or Optional Service for Commercial and Industrial Customers: A Comparative Analysis of Eight Case Studies." (2006).

Barbose, Galen L, Ranjit Bharvirkar, Charles A Goldman, Nicole C Hopper, and Bernard Neenan."Killing Two Birds with One Stone: Can Real-Time Pricing Support Retail Competition and Demand Response?."2006 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2006).

2005

Goldman, Charles A, Nicole C Hopper, Ranjit Bharvirkar, Bernard Neenan, Richard Boisvert, Peter Cappers, Donna Pratt, and Kim Butkins."Customer Strategies for Responding to Day-Ahead Market Hourly Electricity Pricing." (2005) 107.

Barbose, Galen L, Charles A Goldman, Ranjit Bharvirkar, Nicole C Hopper, Michael K Ting, and Bernard Neenan."Real Time Pricing as a Default or Optional Service for C&I Customers: A Comparative Analysis of Eight Case Studies." (2005) 106.

Hopper, Nicole C, Charles A Goldman, Jennifer A McWilliams, David Birr, and Kate McMordie Stoughton."Public and Institutional Markets for ESCO Services: Comparing Programs, Practices and Performance." (2005) 109.

Goldman, Charles A, Nicole C Hopper, Julie G Osborn, and Terry E Singer."Review of U.S. ESCO Industry Market Trends: An Empirical Analysis of Project Data."Energy Policy 33 (2005) 44.

2004

Goldman, Charles A, Nicole C Hopper, Osman Sezgen, Mithra M Moezzi, Ranjit Bharvirkar, Bernard Neenan, Donna Pratt, Peter Cappers, and Richard Boisvert."Does Real-Time Pricing Deliver Demand Response? A Case Study of Niagara Mohawk’s Large Customer RTP Tariff."2004 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2004) 17.

Moezzi, Mithra M, Charles A Goldman, Osman Sezgen, Ranjit Bharvirkar, and Nicole C Hopper."Real Time Pricing and the Real Live Firm." (2004) 16.

Hopper, Nicole C, Charles A Goldman, and David Birr."The Federal Market for ESCO Services: How Does it Measure Up?." (2004) 17.

Goldman, Charles A, Nicole C Hopper, Osman Sezgen, Mithra M Moezzi, Ranjit Bharvirkar, Bernard Neenan, Richard Boisvert, Peter Cappers, and Donna Pratt."Customer Response to Day-ahead Wholesale Market Electricity Prices: Case Study of RTP Program Experience in New York."Consultant Report prepared for the California Energy Commission (2004) 208.

Lin, Jiang, Charles A Goldman, Mark D Levine, and Nicole C Hopper."Developing an Energy Efficiency Service Industry in Shanghai." (2004).

Moezzi, Mithra M, Charles A Goldman, Osman Sezgen, Ranjit Bharvirkar, and Nicole C Hopper."Real Time Pricing and the Real Live Firm."2004 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2004).

2002

Goldman, Charles A, Nicole C Hopper, and Terry E Singer."Examining U.S. ESCO Industry Trends: Practices and Applied Technologies: Results from the NAESCO Database Project."NAESCO International Roundtable Los Angeles, CA October 11, 2002 (2002).