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)

2013

Mills, Andrew D., and Ryan H. Wiser."Changes in the Economic Value of Variable Generation at High Penetration Levels: A Pilot Case Study of California."18th Annual POWER Conference on Energy Research and Policy (2013).

Seel, Joachim, Galen L. Barbose, and Ryan H. Wiser."Why Are Residential PV Prices in Germany So Much Lower Than in the United States? A Scoping Analysis." (2013).

Darghouth, Naïm R., Galen L. Barbose, and Ryan H. Wiser."Electricity Bill Savings from Residential Photovoltaic Systems: Sensitivities to Changes in Future Electricity Market Conditions." (2013).

Mills, Andrew D., and Ryan H. Wiser."Solar Valuation in Utility Planning Studies." (2013).

2012

Mills, Andrew D., and Ryan H. Wiser."An Evaluation of Solar Valuation Methods Used in Utility Planning and Procurement Processes." (2012).

Ardani, Kristen, Galen L. Barbose, Robert Margolis, Ryan H. Wiser, David Feldman, and Sean Ong."Benchmarking Non-Hardware Balance of System (Soft) Costs for U.S. Photovoltaic Systems Using a Data-Driven Analysis from PV Installer Survey Results." (2012).

Brown, Jason P, John Pender, Ryan H. Wiser, Eric Lantz, and Ben Hoen."Ex Post Analysis of Economic Impacts from Wind Power Development in U.S. Counties."Energy Economics 34.6 (2012). DOI

Feldman, David, Galen L. Barbose, Robert Margolis, Ryan H. Wiser, Naïm R. Darghouth, and Alan Goodrich."Photovoltaic (PV) Pricing Trends: Historical, Recent, and Near-Term Projections." (2012).

Darghouth, Naïm R., Galen L. Barbose, and Ryan H. Wiser."The Potential Impact of Increased Renewable Energy Penetration Levels on Electricity Bill Savings From Residential Photovoltaic Systems."31st USAEE/IAEE North American Conference (2012).

Barbose, Galen L., Naïm R. Darghouth, and Ryan H. Wiser."Tracking the Sun V An Historical Summary of the Installed Price of Photovoltaics in the United States from 1998 to 2011." (2012).

Cappers, Peter, Andrew D. Mills, Charles A. Goldman, Ryan H. Wiser, and Joseph H Eto."An assessment of the role mass market demand response could play in contributing to the management of variable generation integration issues."Energy Policy 48 (2012) 420 - 429. DOI

Brown, Jason P, John Pender, Ryan H. Wiser, Eric Lantz, and Ben Hoen."The Impact of Wind Development on County-Level Income and Employment: A Review of Methods and an Empirical Analysis (Fact Sheet)." (2012).

Wiser, Ryan H., Mark Bolinger, Galen L. Barbose, Naïm R. Darghouth, Ben Hoen, Andrew D. Mills, Kevin Porter, Michael Buckley, Sari Fink, Frank Oteri, and Suzanne Tegen."2011 Wind Technologies Market Report." (2012).

Mills, Andrew D., and Ryan H. Wiser."Changes in the Economic Value of Variable Generation at High Penetration Levels: A Pilot Case Study of California." (2012).

Hoen, Ben, Ryan H. Wiser, Mark A. Thayer, and Peter Cappers."Do PV systems increase residential selling prices? If so, how can practitioners estimate this increase?."2012 38th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (2012) 001774 - 001777. DOI

Lantz, Eric, Ryan H. Wiser, M Maureen Hand, Athanasia Arapogianni, Alberto Ceña, Emilien Simonot, and Edward James-Smith."IEA Wind Task 26: The Past And Future Cost Of Wind Energy." (2012).

Hoen, Ben, Ryan H. Wiser, Mark A. Thayer, and Peter Cappers."Residential Photovoltaic Energy Systems in California: The Effect on Home Sales Prices." (2012).

Bolinger, Mark, and Ryan H. Wiser."Understanding wind turbine price trends in the U.S. over the past decade."Energy Policy 42 (2012) 628 - 641. DOI

Wiser, Ryan H., Eric Lantz, Mark Bolinger, and M Maureen Hand."Recent Developments in the Levelized Cost of Energy from U.S. Wind Power Projects." (2012).

Mills, Andrew D., Ryan H. Wiser, and Kevin Porter."The cost of transmission for wind energy in the United States: A review of transmission planning studies."Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 16.1 (2012) 19. DOI

2011

Cappers, Peter, Andrew D. Mills, Charles A. Goldman, Ryan H. Wiser, and Joseph H Eto."Mass Market Demand Response and Variable Generation Integration Issues: A Scoping Study." (2011) 76.

Bolinger, Mark, and Ryan H. Wiser."Understanding Trends in Wind Turbine Prices Over the Past Decade." (2011) 46.

Darghouth, Naïm R., Galen L. Barbose, and Ryan H. Wiser."The impact of rate design and net metering on the bill savings from distributed PV for residential customers in California."Energy Policy 39.9 (2011) 5243 - 5253. DOI

Barbose, Galen L., Naïm R. Darghouth, Ryan H. Wiser, and Joachim Seel."Tracking the Sun IV An Historical Summary of the Installed Cost of Photovoltaics in the United States from 1998 to 2010." (2011) 61.

Brown, Jason P, Ben Hoen, Eric Lantz, John Pender, and Ryan H. Wiser."Economic Impacts of Wind Turbine Development in U.S. Counties."Poster Presented at the AAEA & NAREA Joint Annual Meeting, July 24-26, 2011, Pittsburgh, PA (2011) 1.