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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.
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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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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.

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2024

Gilbert, Ben, Ben Hoen, and Hannah Gagarin."Distributional Equity in the Employment and Wage Impacts of Energy Transitions."Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 11 (2024).

Nilson, Robi, Joseph Rand, Ben Hoen, and Salma Elmallah."Halfway up the ladder: Developer practices and perspectives on community engagement for utility-scale renewable energy in the United States."Energy Research & Social Science 117 (2024). DOI

Hoen, Ben, James Diffendorfer, Joseph Rand, Louisa Kramer, Chris Garrity, and Hannah Hunt."US Wind Turbine Database Files." (2024). DOI

Fujita, K Sydny, Zach Ancona, Louisa Kramer, James Diffendorfer, Mary Straka, Tandie E Gautreau, Dana Robson, Ben Hoen, and Chris Garrity."US Large-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Database Files." (2024).

Enterline, Shawn, Andrew Valainis, and Ben Hoen."Laws in Order: An Inventory of State Renewable Energy Siting Policies." (2024).

Rand, Joseph, Karl Hoesch, Sarah Mills, Ben Hoen, Robi Nilson, Doug Bessette, and Jake White."Perceptions of Large-Scale Solar Project Neighbors: Results From a National Survey." (2024).

Bessette, Douglas L, Ben Hoen, Joseph Rand, Karl Hoesch, Jacob White, Sarah B Mills, and Robi Nilson."Good fences make good neighbors: Stakeholder perspectives on the local benefits and burdens of large-scale solar energy development in the United States."Energy Research & Social Science 108 (2024). DOI

Nilson, Robi, Ben Hoen, and Joseph Rand."Survey of Utility-Scale Wind and Solar Developers Report." (2024).

2023

Brunner, Eric, Ben Hoen, Joseph Rand, and David Schwegman."Commercial Wind Turbines and Residential Home Values: New Evidence from the Universe of Land-Based Wind Projects in the United States."Energy Policy (2023). DOI

Fujita, K Sydny, Zach Ancona, Louisa Kramer, James Diffendorfer, Mary Straka, Tandie E Gautreau, Dana Robson, Ben Hoen, and Chris Garrity."Georectified polygon database of ground-mounted large-scale solar photovoltaic sites in the United States."Scientific Data (2023). DOI

Bessette, Doug, Joseph Rand, Ben Hoen, Karl Hoesch, Jake White, Sarah Mills, and Robi Nilson."Community Centered Solar Development (CCSD) Study Interviews." (2023).

Bolinger, Mark, and Bentham Paulos."Revisiting Community Wind Through the Lens of Community Solar." (2023).

Hoen, Ben, Ryan Darlow, Ryan Haac, Joseph Rand, and Ken Kaliski."Effects of land-based wind turbine upsizing on community sound levels and power and energy density."Applied Energy 15 (2023). DOI

Elmallah, Salma, Ben Hoen, K Sydny Fujita, Dana Robson, and Eric Brunner."Shedding light on large-scale solar impacts: An analysis of property values and proximity to photovoltaics across six U.S. states."Energy Policy (2023). DOI

Paulos, Bentham, and Juliana Williams."Are You Philanthropy-Ready? How to Work with Foundations on Mission-Aligned Community Solar." (2023).

2022

Hu, Wei, Kyle Bradbury, Jordan M Malof, Boning Li, Bohao Huang, Artem Streltsov, K Sydny Fujita, and Ben Hoen."What you get is not always what you see—pitfalls in solar array assessment using overhead imagery."Applied Energy 327 (2022). DOI

O'Shaughnessy, Eric, Ryan H Wiser, Ben Hoen, Joseph Rand, and Salma Elmallah."Drivers and energy justice implications of renewable energy project siting in the United States."Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (2022). DOI

Elmallah, Salma, and Joseph Rand."“After the leases are signed, it's a done deal”: Exploring procedural injustices for utility-scale wind energy planning in the United States."Energy Research & Social Science 89 (2022). DOI

Haac, Ryan, Ryan Darlow, Ken Kaliski, Joseph Rand, and Ben Hoen."In the shadow of wind energy: Predicting community exposure and annoyance to wind turbine shadow flicker in the United States."Energy Research & Social Science 87 (2022). DOI

Gill, Elizabeth, and Joseph Rand."Understanding Costs Associated with Wind Energy Opposition and Stakeholder Engagement." (2022).

Brunner, Eric, Ben Hoen, and Joshua Hyman."School district revenue shocks, resource allocations, and student achievement: Evidence from the universe of U.S. wind energy installations."Journal of Public Economics (2022). DOI

Bolinger, Mark, and Greta Bolinger."Land Requirements for Utility-Scale PV: An Empirical Update on Power and Energy Density."IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics (2022). DOI

2020

Rand, Joseph, Louisa Kramer, Christopher Garrity, Ben Hoen, James Diffendorfer, Hannah Hunt, and Michael Spears."A continuously updated, geospatially rectified database of utility-scale wind turbines in the United States."Scientific Data 7.15 (2020). DOI

2019

Hoen, Ben, Jeremy Firestone, Joseph Rand, Debi Elliott, Gundula Hübner, Johannes Pohl, Ryan H Wiser, Eric Lantz, Ryan Haac, and Ken Kaliski."Attitudes of U.S. Wind Turbine Neighbors: Analysis of a Nationwide Survey."Energy Policy 134 (2019). DOI

Hübner, Gundula, Johannes Pohl, Ben Hoen, Jeremy Firestone, Debi Elliott, Joseph Rand, and Ryan Haac."Monitoring annoyance and stress effects of wind turbines on nearby residents: A comparison of U.S. and European samples."Environment International 132 (2019). DOI