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)

2024

Frick, Natalie Mims, Lisa C. Schwartz, Julieta Giraldez, Cody Davis, Samir Succar, Ronny Sandoval, Gayathri Krishnamoothy, Tom Wall, Josh A. Schellenberg, Peter H. Larsen, and Neil Weisenfeld."Regional Training: Planning for Distribution Systems, Distributed Energy Resources, and Resilience." (2024).

2023

Schwartz, Lisa C., Natalie Mims Frick, Julieta Giraldez, Cody Davis, Samir Succar, Ronny Sandoval, Eliza Hotchkiss, Josh A. Schellenberg, Tom Wall, Peter H. Larsen, Nichole L Hanus, and Jane Frantz."Eastern Regional Training: Planning for Distribution Systems, Distributed Energy Resources, and Resilience." (2023).

Larsen, Peter H., Lisa C. Schwartz, and Joe Paladino."Resilience Training for the Public Utility Commission of Texas." (2023).

Sparti, Chelsi, Peter H. Larsen, and Tyler Huntington."The Value of Sharing and Consolidating Critical Community, Electricity, and Natural Hazard Information." (2023).

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Nan Zhang, Benjamin D. Leibowicz, Thomas Carr, Sunhee Baik, and Peter H. Larsen."A Guide for Improved Resource Adequacy Assessments in Evolving Power Systems: Institutional and Technical Dimensions." (2023).

Schwartz, Lisa C., Joe Paladino, Peter H. Larsen, Cecilia Klauber, Tom Short, Scott Sternfeld, and Miguel Heleno."Resilience Training for the Southeast." (2023).

2021

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Stephanie Bieler, Myles T. Collins, Joscha Mueller, Christoph Gehbauer, Douglas J. Gotham, and Peter H. Larsen."A framework to measure the technical, economic, and rate impacts of distributed solar, electric vehicles, and storage."Applied Energy 297 (2021). DOI

Stuart, Elizabeth, Nichole L Hanus, Juan Pablo Carvallo, and Peter H. Larsen."U.S. ESCO Industry: Industry Size and Recent Market Trends." (2021).

Baik, Sunhee, Nichole L Hanus, Alan H. Sanstad, Joseph H Eto, and Peter H. Larsen."A Hybrid Approach to Estimating the Economic Value of Enhanced Power System Resilience." (2021).

2020

Sanstad, Alan H., Qianru Zhu, Benjamin Leibowicz, Peter H. Larsen, and Joseph H Eto."Case Studies of the Economic Impacts of Power Interruptions and Damage to Electricity System Infrastructure from Extreme Events." (2020).

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Nan Zhang, Benjamin Leibowicz, Thomas Carr, Maury Galbraith, and Peter H. Larsen."Implications of a regional resource adequacy program on utility integrated resource planning: Study for the Western United States." (2020).

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Nan Zhang, Sean Murphy, Benjamin Leibowicz, and Peter H. Larsen."The economic value of a centralized approach to distributed resource investment and operation."Applied Energy 269 (2020). DOI

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Myles T. Collins, Stephanie Bieler, Joscha Mueller, Christoph Gehbauer, and Peter H. Larsen."Indiana 21st Century Energy Policy: Emerging Technologies on the Electricity Distribution System." (2020).

Larsen, Peter H., Megan Lawson, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, and Joseph H Eto."Severe weather, utility spending, and the long-term reliability of the U.S. power system."Energy 198 (2020). DOI

Earni, Shankar, Philip Coleman, Elizabeth Stuart, and Peter H. Larsen."eProject Builder: Promoting wider adoption of energy savings performance contracts through standardization and transparency."energise 2020 ENERGY INNOVATION FOR A SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY (2020) 300-308.

2019

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Sean Murphy, Alan H. Sanstad, and Peter H. Larsen."The use of wholesale market purchases by Western U.S. electric utilities." (2019).

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Sean Murphy, Elizabeth Stuart, Peter H. Larsen, and Charles A. Goldman."Evaluating project level investment trends for the U.S. ESCO industry: 1990-2017."Energy Policy 130.July 2019 (2019) 139-161. DOI

Larsen, Peter H., Alan H. Sanstad, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, and Joseph H Eto."Frontiers in the Economics of Widespread, Long-Duration Power Interruptions: Proceedings from an Expert Workshop."Frontiers in the Economics of Widespread, Long-Duration Power Interruptions (2019).

2018

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Peter H. Larsen, Alan H. Sanstad, and Charles A. Goldman."Long term load forecasting accuracy in electric utility integrated resource planning."Energy Policy 119 (2018) 410-422. DOI

Sullivan, Michael J., Myles T. Collins, Josh A. Schellenberg, and Peter H. Larsen."Estimating Power System Interruption Costs: A Guidebook for Electric Utilities." (2018).

Schellenberg, Josh A., and Peter H. Larsen."Changes to the Underlying Econometric Models for the Interruption Cost Estimate (ICE) Calculator." (2018).

Stuart, Elizabeth, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Peter H. Larsen, Charles A. Goldman, and Donald Gilligan."Understanding recent market trends of the US ESCO industry."Energy Efficiency 11 (2018) 1303–1324. DOI

2017

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Alan H. Sanstad, and Peter H. Larsen."Exploring the relationship between planning and procurement in Western U.S. electric utilities." (2017).

Larsen, Peter H., Juan Pablo Carvallo, Charles A. Goldman, Sean Murphy, and Elizabeth Stuart."Updated Estimates of the Remaining Market Potential of the U.S. ESCO Industry." (2017).

LaCommare, Kristina Hamachi, Peter H. Larsen, and Joseph H Eto."Evaluating Proposed Investments in Power System Reliability and Resilience: Preliminary Results from Interviews with Public Utility Commission Staff." (2017).