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)

2020

Todd-Blick, Annika, C Anna Spurlock, Ling Jin, Peter Cappers, Sam Borgeson, Daniel Fredman, and Jarett Zuboy."Winners are not keepers: Characterizing household engagement, gains, and energy patterns in demand response using machine learning in the United States."Energy Research & Social Science 70 (2020). DOI

2017

Jin, Ling, Doris Lee, Alex Sim, Sam Borgeson, Kesheng Wu, C Anna Spurlock, and Annika Todd-Blick."Comparison of Clustering Techniques for Residential Energy Behavior using Smart Meter Data." AAAI Workshops - Artificial Intelligence for Smart Grids and Buildings, March 2017 (2017).

2016

Jin, Ling, C Anna Spurlock, Sam Borgeson, Daniel Fredman, Liesel Hans, Siddharth Patel, and Annika Todd-Blick."Load Shape Clustering Using Residential Smart Meter Data: a Technical Memorandum." (2016).

Patel, Siddharth, Sam Borgeson, Ram Rajagopal, C Anna Spurlock, Ling Jin, and Annika Todd-Blick."Time Will Tell: Using Smart Meter Time Series Data to Derive Household Features and Explain Heter ogeneity in Pricing Programs."2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2016).

2009

Komiyama, Ryoichi, Chris Marnay, Michael Stadler, Inês Lima Azevedo, Sam Borgeson, Brian E Coffey, and Judy Lai."Japan's Energy Outlook for 2050 with Stochastic Sectoral Modeling."IEEJ Energy Journal of the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan 4 (2009).

Komiyama, Ryoichi, Chris Marnay, Michael Stadler, Judy Lai, Sam Borgeson, Brian E Coffey, and Inês Lima Azevedo."Japan's Long-term Energy Demand and Supply Scenario to 2050 - Estimation for the Potential of Massive CO₂ Mitigation."IEEJ Energy Journal of the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan 4 (2009).

Al-Beaini, Sara, Sam Borgeson, Brian E Coffey, David Gregory, Kyle S Konis, Corinne D Scown, Jelena Simjanovic, John Stanley, Bret Strogen, and Iain S Walker."Feasibility of Achieving a Zero-Net-Energy, Zero-Net-Cost Homes." (2009).

Coffey, Brian E, Sam Borgeson, Stephen E Selkowitz, Joshua S Apte, Paul A Mathew, and Philip Haves."Towards a Very Low Energy Building Stock: Modeling the U.S. Commercial Building Sector to Support Policy and Innovation Planning."Building Research & Information (2009).

Coffey, Brian E, Sam Borgeson, Stephen E Selkowitz, Joshua S Apte, Paul A Mathew, and Philip Haves."Towards a Very Low Energy Building Stock: Modeling the US Commercial Building Stock to Support Policy and Innovation Planning."Building Research and Information 37:5 (2009).

2008

Brown, Richard E, Sam Borgeson, Jonathan G Koomey, and Peter J Biermayer."U.S. Building-Sector Energy Efficiency Potential." (2008).

Marnay, Chris, Michael Stadler, Sam Borgeson, Brian E Coffey, Ryoichi Komiyama, and Judy Lai."A Buildings Module for the Stochastic Energy Deployment System."ACEEE 2008 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2008).

Stadler, Michael, Chris Marnay, Sam Borgeson, Brian E Coffey, Ryoichi Komiyama, and Judy Lai."Beta version SEDS Lite Building Module." (2008).