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)

2022

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).

Rand, Joseph, Ryan H Wiser, Will Gorman, Dev Millstein, Joachim Seel, Seongeun Jeong, and Dana Robson."Queued Up: Characteristics of Power Plants Seeking Transmission Interconnection As of the End of 2021." (2022).

Bolinger, Mark, Will Gorman, Dev Millstein, and Dirk C Jordan."Plant-level performance and degradation of 31 GW-DC of utility-scale PV in the United States." (2022).

2021

Kim, James Hyungkwan, Andrew D Mills, Ryan H Wiser, Mark Bolinger, Will Gorman, Cristina Crespo Montañés, and Eric O'Shaughnessy."Project developer options to enhance the value of solar electricity as solar and storage penetrations increase."Applied Energy 304 (2021). DOI

Montañés, Cristina Crespo, Will Gorman, Andrew D Mills, and James Hyungkwan Kim."Keep it short: Exploring the impacts of configuration choices on the recent economics of solar-plus-battery and wind-plus-battery hybrid energy plants." (2021). DOI

Mills, Andrew D, Joachim Seel, Dev Millstein, James Hyungkwan Kim, Seongeun Jeong, Cody Warner, and Will Gorman."Solar-to-Grid: Trends in System Impacts, Reliability, and Market Value in the United States with Data Through 2020." (2021).

Kahrl, Fredrich, James Hyungkwan Kim, Andrew D Mills, Ryan H Wiser, Cristina Crespo Montañés, and Will Gorman."Variable Renewable Energy Participation in U.S. Ancillary Services Markets: Economic Evaluation and Key Issues." (2021).

Wiser, Ryan H, Mark Bolinger, Ben Hoen, Dev Millstein, Joseph Rand, Galen L Barbose, Naïm R Darghouth, Will Gorman, Seongeun Jeong, Andrew D Mills, and Bentham Paulos."Land-Based Wind Market Report: 2021 Edition." (2021).

Barbose, Galen L, Salma Elmallah, and Will Gorman."Behind the Meter Solar+Storage: Market data and trends." (2021).

Bolinger, Mark, Will Gorman, Joseph Rand, Ryan H Wiser, Seongeun Jeong, Joachim Seel, Cody Warner, and Bentham Paulos."Hybrid Power Plants: Status of Installed and Proposed Projects." (2021).

Gorman, Will, Cristina Crespo Montañés, Andrew D Mills, James Hyungkwan Kim, Dev Millstein, and Ryan H Wiser."Are coupled renewable-battery power plants more valuable than independently sited installations?."Energy Economics 107 (2021). DOI

Mills, Andrew D, Joachim Seel, Dev Millstein, James Hyungkwan Kim, Mark Bolinger, Will Gorman, Yuhan Wang, Seongeun Jeong, and Ryan H Wiser."Solar-to-Grid: Trends in System Impacts, Reliability, and Market Value in the United States with Data Through 2019." (2021).

2020

Mills, Andrew D, Ryan H Wiser, Dev Millstein, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Will Gorman, Joachim Seel, and Seongeun Jeong."The impact of wind, solar, and other factors on the decline in wholesale power prices in the United States."Applied Energy (2020). DOI

Wiser, Ryan H, Mark Bolinger, Ben Hoen, Dev Millstein, Joseph Rand, Galen L Barbose, Naïm R Darghouth, Will Gorman, Seongeun Jeong, Andrew D Mills, and Bentham Paulos."Wind Energy Technology Data Update: 2020 Edition." (2020).

Wiser, Ryan H, Mark Bolinger, Will Gorman, Joseph Rand, Seongeun Jeong, Joachim Seel, Cody Warner, and Bentham Paulos."Hybrid Power Plants: Status of Installed and Proposed Projects." (2020).

Bolinger, Mark, Will Gorman, Dev Millstein, and Dirk C Jordan."System-level performance and degradation of 21 GW-DC of utility-scale PV plants in the United States."Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy 12.4 (2020). DOI

Gorman, Will, Andrew D Mills, Mark Bolinger, Ryan H Wiser, Nikita G Singhal, Erik Ela, and Eric O'Shaughnessy."Motivations and options for deploying hybrid generator-plus-battery projects within the bulk power system."The Electricity Journal 33.5 (2020). DOI

2019

Mills, Andrew D, Dev Millstein, Ryan H Wiser, Joachim Seel, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Seongeun Jeong, and Will Gorman."Impact of Wind, Solar, and Other Factors on Wholesale Power Prices: An Historical Analysis—2008 through 2017." (2019).

Gorman, Will, Andrew D Mills, and Ryan H Wiser."Improving estimates of transmission capital costs for utility-scale wind and solar projects to inform renewable energy policy."Energy Policy (2019). DOI

Satchwell, Andrew, Peter Cappers, Javier Reneses, Will Gorman, and Greg Leventis."Financial Impacts of Net-Metered DPV on a Prototypical Western Utility’s Shareholders and Ratepayers." (2019).