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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.

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Publications by Research Area

Buildings
Demand Response
Electricity Markets & Policy
Energy Efficiency
Energy Storage
Industrial Energy Analysis
Renewable Energy
Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems
Transportation

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Building Technology (BTUS)
Energy Analysis (EAEI)
Energy Storage (ESDR)

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

2021

Doughtry, Christine, Jianjun Hu, Patrick Dobson, Peter Nico, and Michael Wetter."Coupling subsurface and above-surface models for optimizing the design of borefields and district heating and cooling systems in the presence of varying water-table depth."46th Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering (2021).

2020

Millstein, Dev, Patrick Dobson, and Seongeun Jeong."The Potential to Improve the Value of U.S. Geothermal Electricity Generation Through Flexible Operations."Journal of Energy Resources Technology 413 (2020). DOI
Dobson, Patrick, Dipankar Dwivedi, Dev Millstein, Nandini Krishnaswamy, Julio Garcia, and Mariam Kiran."Analysis of curtailment at The Geysers geothermal Field, California."Geothermics 87 (2020) 101871. DOI
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