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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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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 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

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).

Seel, Joachim, Julie Mulvaney Kemp, Joseph Rand, Will Gorman, Dev Millstein, Fritz Kahrl, and Ryan H. Wiser."Generator Interconnection Costs to the Transmission System - Summary Briefing." (2023).

Kemp, Julie Mulvaney, Dev Millstein, James Hyungkwan Kim, and Ryan H. Wiser."Interactions between hybrid power plant development and local transmission in congested regions."Advances in Applied Energy 10 (2023). DOI

Kemp, Julie Mulvaney, Joachim Seel, Will Gorman, Joseph Rand, Ryan H. Wiser, Will Cotton, and Kevin Porter."Interconnection Cost Analysis in ISO-New England." (2023).

Seel, Joachim, Julie Mulvaney Kemp, Joseph Rand, Will Gorman, Dev Millstein, Ryan H. Wiser, Ari Weissfeld, Nicholas DiSanti, and Kevin Porter."Generator Interconnection Cost Analysis in the Southwest Power Pool (SPP) Territory." (2023).

Rand, Joseph, Rose Strauss, Will Gorman, Joachim Seel, Julie Mulvaney Kemp, Seongeun Jeong, Dana Robson, and Ryan H. Wiser."Queued Up: Characteristics of Power Plants Seeking Transmission Interconnection As of the End of 2022." (2023).

Kemp, Julie Mulvaney, Joachim Seel, Joseph Rand, Dev Millstein, Fredrich Kahrl, Will Gorman, Ryan H. Wiser, Will Cotton, and Kevin Porter."Interconnection Cost Analysis in the NYISO Territory." (2023).

Millstein, Dev, Ryan H. Wiser, Seongeun Jeong, and Julie Mulvaney Kemp."The Latest Market Data Show that the Potential Savings of New Electric Transmission was Higher Last Year than at Any Point in the Last Decade." (2023).

Seel, Joachim, Joseph Rand, Will Gorman, Dev Millstein, Ryan H. Wiser, Will Cotton, Katherine Fisher, Olivia Kuykendall, Ari Weissfeld, and Kevin Porter."Interconnection Cost Analysis in the PJM Territory." (2023).

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

Seel, Joachim, Joseph Rand, Will Gorman, Dev Millstein, Ryan H. Wiser, Will Cotton, Nicholas DiSanti, and Kevin Porter."Generator Interconnection Cost Analysis in the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) territory." (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).

O'Shaughnessy, Eric, Ryan H. Wiser, Ben Hoen, Joseph Rand, and Salma Elmallah."Drivers and energy justice implications of renewable energy project siting in the United States."Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (2022). DOI

Beiter, Philipp, Joseph Rand, Joachim Seel, Eric Lantz, Patrick Gilman, and Ryan H. Wiser."Expert perspectives on the wind plant of the future."Wind Energy (2022). DOI

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).

Rand, Joseph, Ryan H. Wiser, Will Gorman, Dev Millstein, Joachim Seel, Seongeun Jeong, and Dana Robson."Queued Up: Characteristics of Power Plants Seeking Transmission Interconnection As of the End of 2021." (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

Millstein, Dev, Ryan H. Wiser, Will Gorman, Seongeun Jeong, James Hyungkwan Kim, and Amos Ancell."Empirical Estimates of Transmission Value using Locational Marginal Prices." (2022).

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

O'Shaughnessy, Eric, Galen L. Barbose, Ryan H. Wiser, and Sydney Forrester."Income-targeted marketing as a supply-side barrier to low-income solar adoption."iScience 24.10 (2021). DOI

Kahrl, Fredrich, James Hyungkwan Kim, Andrew D. Mills, Ryan H. Wiser, Cristina Crespo Montañés, and Will Gorman."Variable Renewable Energy Participation in U.S. Ancillary Services Markets: Economic Evaluation and Key Issues." (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).

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