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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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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).

Millstein, Dev, Ryan H. Wiser, Andrew D. Mills, Mark Bolinger, Joachim Seel, and Seongeun Jeong."Solar and wind grid system value in the United States: The effect of transmission congestion, generation profiles, and curtailment."Joule (2021). DOI

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

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).

Wiser, Ryan H., Joseph Rand, Joachim Seel, Philipp Beiter, Erin Baker, Eric Lantz, and Patrick Gilman."Expert elicitation survey predicts 37% to 49% declines in wind energy costs by 2050."Nature Energy (2021). DOI

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).

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

Beiter, Philipp, Aubryn Cooperman, Eric Lantz, Tyler Stehly, Matt Shields, Ryan H. Wiser, Thomas Telsnig, Lena Kitzing, Volker Berkhout, and Yuka Kikuchi."Wind power costs driven by innovation and experience with further reductions on the horizon."WIREs Energy & Environment (2021). DOI

Bowen, Thomas, Carishma Gokhale-Welch, Karlynn Cory, and Naïm R. Darghouth."Quantifying Rooftop Solar Benefits: a State-Level Value of Solar Analysis for India." (2021).

2020

Millstein, Dev."Cleaning the grid."Nature Sustainability (2020). DOI

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

Darghouth, Naïm R., Galen L. Barbose, Jarett Zuboy, Pieter Gagnon, Andrew D. Mills, and Lori Bird."Demand charge savings from solar PV and energy storage."Energy Policy 146 (2020). DOI

Zinaman, Owen, and Naïm R. Darghouth."Distributed Solar Utility Tariff and Revenue Impact Analysis: A Guidebook for International Practitioners." (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

Duffy, Aidan, Maureen Hand, Ryan H. Wiser, Eric Lantz, Alberto Dalla Riva, Volker Berkhout, Maria Stenkvist, David E. Weir, and Roberto Lacal-Arántegui."Land-based wind energy cost trends in Germany, Denmark, Ireland, Norway, Sweden and the United States."Applied Energy 277 (2020). DOI

Bolinger, Mark, Joachim Seel, Dana Robson, and Cody Warner."Utility-Scale Solar Data Update: 2020 Edition." (2020).

O'Shaughnessy, Eric, Galen L. Barbose, and Ryan H. Wiser."Patience is a virtue: A data-driven analysis of rooftop solar PV permitting timelines in the United States."Energy Policy 144 (2020). DOI

Barbose, Galen L., and Andrew Satchwell."Benefits and costs of a utility-ownership business model for residential rooftop solar photovoltaics."Nature 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., Dev Millstein, Mark Bolinger, Seongeun Jeong, and Andrew D. Mills."The hidden value of large-rotor, tall-tower wind turbines in the United States."Wind Engineering (2020). DOI

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

Wiser, Ryan H., Mark Bolinger, and Joachim Seel."Benchmarking Utility-Scale PV Operational Expenses and Project Lifetimes: Results from a Survey of U.S. Solar Industry Professionals." (2020).