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 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

Forrester, Sydney, and Andrew Satchwell."Developing an Equity Framework for State Regulatory Decision-Making." (2023).

Barbose, Galen L., and Sydney Forrester."Solar PV on U.S. Houses of Worship: Overview of Market Activity and Trends." (2023).

O'Shaughnessy, Eric, Sydney Forrester, and Galen L. Barbose."Supply sunspots and shadows: Business siting patterns and inequitable rooftop solar adoption in the United States."Energy Research & Social Science 96 (2023). DOI

2022

Ingram, Michael, David Narang, Xiangkun Li, Caitlin Marquis, Debbie Lew, and Sydney Forrester."DER Interconnection Workshop." (2022).

Forrester, Sydney, Galen L. Barbose, Eric O'Shaughnessy, Naïm R. Darghouth, and Cristina Crespo Montañés."Residential Solar-Adopter Income and Demographic Trends: November 2022 Update." (2022).

Barbose, Galen L., Naïm R. Darghouth, Eric O'Shaughnessy, and Sydney Forrester."Tracking the Sun: Pricing and Design Trends for Distributed Photovoltaic Systems in the United States, 2022 Edition." (2022).

Forrester, Sydney, Galen L. Barbose, and Chandler Miller."Private vs. public value of U.S. residential battery storage operated for solar self-consumption."iScience 25.8 (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).

McLaren, Joyce, Sherin Abraham, Naïm R. Darghouth, and Sydney Forrester."Use of Operating Agreements and Energy Storage to Reduce Photovoltaic Interconnection Costs: Technical and Economic Analysis." (2022).

Gill, Carrie, Shauna Beland, Ryan Constable, Tim Roughan, Caitlin Broderick, Stephen Lasher, Joyce McLaren, Sherin Abraham, Anthony Teixeria, Naïm R. Darghouth, and Sydney Forrester."Use of Operating Agreements and Energy Storage to Reduce Photovoltaic Interconnection Costs: Conceptual Framework." (2022).

Darghouth, Naïm R., Eric O'Shaughnessy, Sydney Forrester, and Galen L. Barbose."Characterizing local rooftop solar adoption inequity in the US."Environmental Research Letters 17.3 (2022). DOI

McDermott, Thomas E., Killian McKenna, Miguel Heleno, Bilal Ahmad Bhatti, Michael Emmanuel, and Sydney Forrester."Distribution System Research Roadmap." (2022). DOI

Barbose, Galen L., Sydney Forrester, Eric O'Shaughnessy, and Naïm R. Darghouth."Residential Solar-Adopter Income and Demographic Trends: 2022 Update." (2022).

2021

Forrester, Sydney, and Peter Cappers."Opportunities and Challenges to Capturing Distributed Battery Value via Retail Utility Rates and Programs." (2021).

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

Cappers, Peter, Sydney Forrester, and Andrew Satchwell."Disaggregating Future Retail Electricity Rate Growth." (2021).

Barbose, Galen L., Naïm R. Darghouth, Eric O'Shaughnessy, and Sydney Forrester."Tracking the Sun: Pricing and Design Trends for Distributed Photovoltaic Systems in the United States, 2021 Edition." (2021).

Paulos, Bentham, Sydney Forrester, Eric O'Shaughnessy, Christopher Dyson, Galen L. Barbose, and Ryan H. Wiser."An Assessment of Evaluation Practices of Low- And Moderate-Income Solar Programs." (2021).

Barbose, Galen L., Sydney Forrester, Eric O'Shaughnessy, and Naïm R. Darghouth."Residential Solar-Adopter Income and Demographic Trends: 2021 Update." (2021).

2020

Barbose, Galen L., Naïm R. Darghouth, Eric O'Shaughnessy, and Sydney Forrester."Distributed Solar 2020 Data Update." (2020).

O'Shaughnessy, Eric, Galen L. Barbose, Ryan H. Wiser, Sydney Forrester, and Naïm R. Darghouth."The impact of policies and business models on income equity in rooftop solar adoption."Nature Energy (2020). DOI

Satchwell, Andrew, Peter Cappers, Jeff Deason, Sydney Forrester, Natalie Mims Frick, Brian F. Gerke, and Mary Ann Piette."A Conceptual Framework to Describe Energy Efficiency and Demand Response Interactions." (2020).

Barbose, Galen L., Sydney Forrester, Naïm R. Darghouth, and Ben Hoen."Income Trends among U.S. Residential Rooftop Solar Adopters." (2020).

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