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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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2014

Seel, Joachim, Galen L. Barbose, and Ryan H. Wiser."An Analysis of Residential PV System Price Differences Between the United States and Germany."Energy Policy 69.June 2014 (2014). DOI

Friedman, , Barry, Robert Margolis, and Joachim Seel."Comparing Photovoltaic (PV) Costs and Deployment Drivers in the Japanese and U.S. Residential and Commercial Markets." (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

Bolinger, Mark."An Analysis of the Costs, Benefits, and Implications of Different Approaches to Capturing the Value of Renewable Energy Tax Incentives." (2014).

Heeter, Jenny, Galen L. Barbose, Lori Bird, Samantha Weaver, Francisco Flores, Ksenia Kuskova-Burns, and Ryan H. Wiser."A Survey of State-Level Cost and Benefit Estimates of Renewable Portfolio Standards." (2014).

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

Barbose, Galen L., Naïm R. Darghouth, Samantha Weaver, David Feldman, Robert Margolis, and Ryan H. Wiser."Tracking US photovoltaic system prices 1998-2012: a rapidly changing market."Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications (2014) n/a - n/a. DOI

2013

Feldman, David, Galen L. Barbose, Robert Margolis, Naïm R. Darghouth, Ted James, Samantha Weaver, Alan Goodrich, and Ryan H. Wiser."Photovoltaic System Pricing Trends: Historical, Recent, and Near-Term Projections - 2013 Edition." (2013).

Bolinger, Mark, and Samantha Weaver."Utility-Scale Solar 2012: An Empirical Analysis of Project Cost, Performance, and Pricing Trends in the United States." (2013).

Wiser, Ryan H., Mark Bolinger, Galen L. Barbose, Naïm R. Darghouth, Ben Hoen, Andrew D. Mills, Samantha Weaver, Kevin Porter, Michael Buckley, Sari Fink, Frank Oteri, and Suzanne Tegen."2012 Wind Technologies Market Report." (2013).

Barbose, Galen L., Naïm R. Darghouth, Samantha Weaver, and Ryan H. Wiser."Tracking the Sun VI: An Historical Summary of the Installed Price of Photovoltaics in the United States from 1998 to 2012." (2013).

Wiser, Ryan H., and Changgui Dong."The Impact of City-level Permitting Processes on Residential Photovoltaic Installation Prices and Development Times: An Empirical Analysis of Solar Systems in California Cities." (2013).

Dong, Changgui, and Ryan H. Wiser."The Impact of City-Level Permitting Processes on Residential PV Installation Prices and Development Times."American Solar Energy Society Annual Meeting (2013).

Bolinger, Mark."Revisiting the Long-Term Hedge Value of Wind Power in an Era of Low Natural Gas Prices." (2013).

Seel, Joachim, Galen L. Barbose, and Ryan H. Wiser."Why Are Residential PV Prices in Germany So Much Lower Than in the United States? A Scoping Analysis." (2013).

2012

Zhai, Pei, Peter H. Larsen, Dev Millstein, Surabi Menon, and Eric R. Masanet."Avoided emissions from high penetration of photovoltaic electricity in the United States."Energy 47.1 (2012). DOI

Ardani, Kristen, Galen L. Barbose, Robert Margolis, Ryan H. Wiser, David Feldman, and Sean Ong."Benchmarking Non-Hardware Balance of System (Soft) Costs for U.S. Photovoltaic Systems Using a Data-Driven Analysis from PV Installer Survey Results." (2012).

Brown, Jason P, John Pender, Ryan H. Wiser, Eric Lantz, and Ben Hoen."Ex Post Analysis of Economic Impacts from Wind Power Development in U.S. Counties."Energy Economics 34.6 (2012). DOI

Feldman, David, Galen L. Barbose, Robert Margolis, Ryan H. Wiser, Naïm R. Darghouth, and Alan Goodrich."Photovoltaic (PV) Pricing Trends: Historical, Recent, and Near-Term Projections." (2012).

Barbose, Galen L., Naïm R. Darghouth, and Ryan H. Wiser."Tracking the Sun V An Historical Summary of the Installed Price of Photovoltaics in the United States from 1998 to 2011." (2012).

Brown, Jason P, John Pender, Ryan H. Wiser, Eric Lantz, and Ben Hoen."The Impact of Wind Development on County-Level Income and Employment: A Review of Methods and an Empirical Analysis (Fact Sheet)." (2012).

Wiser, Ryan H., Mark Bolinger, Galen L. Barbose, Naïm R. Darghouth, Ben Hoen, Andrew D. Mills, Kevin Porter, Michael Buckley, Sari Fink, Frank Oteri, and Suzanne Tegen."2011 Wind Technologies Market Report." (2012).

Ardani, Kristen, Galen L. Barbose, Robert Margolis, and David Feldman."Quantifying non-hardware balance of system costs for photovoltaic installations in the United States using a combined annual expenditure-labor hour productivity approach."2012 38th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (2012) 001762 - 001767. DOI

Lantz, Eric, Ryan H. Wiser, M Maureen Hand, Athanasia Arapogianni, Alberto Ceña, Emilien Simonot, and Edward James-Smith."IEA Wind Task 26: The Past And Future Cost Of Wind Energy." (2012).

Bolinger, Mark, and Ryan H. Wiser."Understanding wind turbine price trends in the U.S. over the past decade."Energy Policy 42 (2012) 628 - 641. DOI