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.
Publications
News +
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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)

2015

Bolinger, Mark, Samantha Weaver, and Jarett Zuboy."Is $50/MWh Solar for Real? Falling Project Prices and Rising Capacity Factors Drive Utility-Scale PV Toward Economic Competitiveness."Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications (2015). DOI

2014

Barbose, Galen L, Jenny Heeter, Lori Bird, Samantha Weaver, Francisco Flores-Espino, and Ryan H Wiser."Costs and Benefits of U.S. Renewables Portfolio Standards."International Associaton for Energy Economics Energy Forum Third Quarter 2014 (2014).

Feldman, David, Galen L Barbose, Robert Margolis, Ted James, Samantha Weaver, Naïm R Darghouth, Ran Fu, Carolyn Davidson, Sam Booth, and Ryan H Wiser."Photovoltaic System Pricing Trends: Historical, Recent, and Near-Term Projections - 2014 Edition." (2014).

Barbose, Galen L, Samantha Weaver, and Naïm R Darghouth."Tracking the Sun VII: An Historical Summary of the Installed Price of Photovoltaics in the United States from 1998-2013." (2014).

Bolinger, Mark, and Samantha Weaver."Utility-Scale Solar 2013: An Empirical Analysis of Project Cost, Performance, and Pricing Trends in the United States." (2014).

Wiser, Ryan H, Mark Bolinger, Galen L Barbose, Naïm R Darghouth, Ben Hoen, Andrew D Mills, Samantha Weaver, Kevin Porter, Michael Buckley, Frank Oteri, and Suzanne Tegen."2013 Wind Technologies Market Report." (2014).

Heeter, Jenny, Galen L Barbose, Lori Bird, Samantha Weaver, Francisco Flores, Ksenia Kuskova-Burns, and Ryan H Wiser."A Survey of State-Level Cost and Benefit Estimates of Renewable Portfolio Standards." (2014).

Barbose, Galen L, Naïm R Darghouth, Samantha Weaver, David Feldman, Robert Margolis, and Ryan H Wiser."Tracking US photovoltaic system prices 1998-2012: a rapidly changing market."Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications (2014) n/a - n/a. DOI

2013

Feldman, David, Galen L Barbose, Robert Margolis, Naïm R Darghouth, Ted James, Samantha Weaver, Alan Goodrich, and Ryan H Wiser."Photovoltaic System Pricing Trends: Historical, Recent, and Near-Term Projections - 2013 Edition." (2013).

Bolinger, Mark, and Samantha Weaver."Utility-Scale Solar 2012: An Empirical Analysis of Project Cost, Performance, and Pricing Trends in the United States." (2013).

Wiser, Ryan H, Mark Bolinger, Galen L Barbose, Naïm R Darghouth, Ben Hoen, Andrew D Mills, Samantha Weaver, Kevin Porter, Michael Buckley, Sari Fink, Frank Oteri, and Suzanne Tegen."2012 Wind Technologies Market Report." (2013).

Barbose, Galen L, Naïm R Darghouth, Samantha Weaver, and Ryan H Wiser."Tracking the Sun VI: An Historical Summary of the Installed Price of Photovoltaics in the United States from 1998 to 2012." (2013).