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)

2021

Wiser, Ryan H, Dev Millstein, Joseph Rand, Paul Donohoo-Vallett, Patrick Gilman, and Trieu Mai."Halfway to Zero: Progress towards a Carbon-Free Power Sector." (2021).

2018

Gagnon, Pieter, Galen L Barbose, Brady Stoll, Ali Ehlen, Jarett Zuboy, Trieu Mai, and Andrew D Mills."Estimating the Value of Improved Distributed Photovoltaic Adoption Forecasts for Utility Resource Planning." (2018).

2017

Mai, Trieu, Eric Lantz, Matthew Mowers, and Ryan H Wiser."The Value of Wind Technology Innovation: Implications for the U.S. Power System, Wind Industry, Electricity Consumers, and Environment." (2017).

2016

Mai, Trieu, Ryan H Wiser, Galen L Barbose, Lori Bird, Jenny Heeter, David Keyser, Venkat Krishnan, Jordan Macknick, and Dev Millstein."A Prospective Analysis of the Costs, Benefits, and Impacts of U.S. Renewable Portfolio Standards." (2016). DOI

Mills, Andrew D, Galen L Barbose, Joachim Seel, Changgui Dong, Trieu Mai, Ben Sigrin, and Jarett Zuboy."Planning for a Distributed Disruption: Innovative Practices for Incorporating Distributed Solar into Utility Planning." (2016).

Lantz, Eric, Trieu Mai, Ryan H Wiser, and Venkat Krishnan."Long-term implications of sustained wind power growth in the United States: Direct electric system impacts and costs."Applied Energy 179.1 October 2016 (2016) 832-846. DOI

Wiser, Ryan H, Mark Bolinger, Garvin A Heath, David Keyser, Eric Lantz, Jordan Macknick, Trieu Mai, and Dev Millstein."Long-term implications of sustained wind power growth in the United States: Potential benefits and secondary impacts."Applied Energy 179.1 October 2016 (2016) 146-158. DOI

Wiser, Ryan H, Dev Millstein, Trieu Mai, Jordan Macknick, Alberta Carpenter, Stuart Cohen, Wesley Cole, Bethany Frew, and Garvin A Heath."The environmental and public health benefits of achieving high penetrations of solar energy in the United States."Energy 113.15 October 2016 (2016) 472-486. DOI

Wiser, Ryan H, Trieu Mai, Dev Millstein, Jordan Macknick, Alberta Carpenter, Stuart Cohen, Wesley Cole, Bethany Frew, and Garvin A Heath."The Environmental and Public Health Benefits of Achieving High Penetrations of Solar Energy in the United States."On the Path to SunShot (2016).

Wiser, Ryan H, Galen L Barbose, Jenny Heeter, Trieu Mai, Lori Bird, Mark Bolinger, Alberta Carpenter, Garvin A Heath, David Keyser, Jordan Macknick, Andrew D Mills, and Dev Millstein."A Retrospective Analysis of the Benefits and Impacts of U.S. Renewable Portfolio Standards." (2016).

2015

Wiser, Ryan H, Eric Lantz, Trieu Mai, Jose Zayas, Edgar A DeMeo, Ed Eugeni, Jessica Lin-Powers, and Richard Tusing."Wind Vision: A New Era for Wind Power in the United States."The Electricity Journal 28.9 (2015). DOI

Mai, Trieu, Wesley Cole, Venkat Krishnan, and Mark Bolinger."Impact of Federal Tax Policy on Utility-Scale Solar Deployment Given Financing Interactions." (2015).

2014

Arent, Douglas J, Jacquelyn Pless, Trieu Mai, Ryan H Wiser, M Maureen Hand, Samuel F Baldwin, Garvin A Heath, Jordan Macknick, Morgan Bazilian, Adam Schlosser, and Paul Denholm."Implications of high renewable electricity penetration in the U.S. for water use, greenhouse gas emissions, land-use, and materials supply."Applied Energy 123 (2014) 368 - 377. DOI

Mai, Trieu, M Maureen Hand, Samuel F Baldwin, Ryan H Wiser, Greg L Brinkman, Paul Denholm, Douglas J Arent, Gian Porro, Debra Sandor, Donna J Hostick, Michael Milligan, Edgar A DeMeo, and Morgan Bazilian."Renewable Electricity Futures for the United States."IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy 5.2 (2014) 372 - 378. DOI