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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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2012

Wiser, Ryan H., Eric Lantz, Mark Bolinger, and M Maureen Hand."Recent Developments in the Levelized Cost of Energy from U.S. Wind Power Projects." (2012).

2011

Bolinger, Mark, and Ryan H. Wiser."Understanding Trends in Wind Turbine Prices Over the Past Decade." (2011) 46.

Barbose, Galen L., Naïm R. Darghouth, Ryan H. Wiser, and Joachim Seel."Tracking the Sun IV An Historical Summary of the Installed Cost of Photovoltaics in the United States from 1998 to 2010." (2011) 61.

Brown, Jason P, Ben Hoen, Eric Lantz, John Pender, and Ryan H. Wiser."Economic Impacts of Wind Turbine Development in U.S. Counties."Poster Presented at the AAEA & NAREA Joint Annual Meeting, July 24-26, 2011, Pittsburgh, PA (2011) 1.

Wiser, Ryan H., Mark Bolinger, Naïm R. Darghouth, Kevin Porter, Michael Buckley, Sari Fink, Russell Raymond, Frank Oteri, Galen L. Barbose, Joachim Seel, Andrew D. Mills, and Ben Hoen."2010 Wind Technologies Market Report." (2011) 98.

Bolinger, Mark."Community Wind: Once Again Pushing the Envelope of Project Finance." (2011) 34.

2010

Barbose, Galen L., Naïm R. Darghouth, and Ryan H. Wiser."Tracking the Sun III The Installed Cost of Photovoltaics in the U.S. from 1998-2009." (2010) 54.

Wiser, Ryan H., Mark Bolinger, Galen L. Barbose, Naïm R. Darghouth, Ben Hoen, Andrew D. Mills, Kevin Porter, Sari Fink, and Suzanne Tegen."2009 Wind Technologies Market Report." (2010) 88.

2009

Wiser, Ryan H., Galen L. Barbose, Carla Peterman, and Naïm R. Darghouth."Tracking the Sun II The Installed Cost of Photovoltaics in the U.S. from 1998-2008." (2009) 150.

Bolinger, Mark, Ryan H. Wiser, Karlynn Cory, and Ted James."PTC, ITC, or Cash Grant? An Analysis of the Choice Facing Renewable Power Projects in the United States." (2009) 21.

Wiser, Ryan H., Galen L. Barbose, and Carla Peterman."Tracking the Sun: The Installed Cost of Photovoltaics in the U.S. from 1998-2007." (2009) 42.

Bolinger, Mark."Financing Non-Residential Photovoltaic Projects: Options and Implications." (2009) 83.

2008

Phadke, Amol A., Charles A. Goldman, Doug Larson, Tom Carr, Larry Rath, Peter Balash, and Wan Yih-Huei."Advanced Coal Wind Hybrid: Economic Analysis." (2008) 85.

Bolinger, Mark, Galen L. Barbose, and Ryan H. Wiser."Shaking Up the Residential PV Market: Implications of Recent Changes to the ITC."Case Studies of State Support for Renewable Energy (2008) 12.

Wiser, Ryan H., and Mark Bolinger."2008 Wind Technologies Market Report." (2008) 68.

Chen, Cliff, Ryan H. Wiser, and Mark Bolinger."Weighing the Costs and Benefits of State Renewables Portfolio Standards: A Comparative Analysis of State- Level Policy Impact Projections." (2008) 87.

2007

Wiser, Ryan H., Mark Bolinger, and Galen L. Barbose."Using the Federal Production Tax Credit to Build a Durable Market for Wind Power in the United States."The Electricity Journal 20.9 (2007) 77-88. DOI

Harper, John, Matthew D. Karcher, and Mark Bolinger."Wind Project Financing Structures: A Review & Comparative Analysis." (2007) 82.

Wiser, Ryan H., and Mark Bolinger."Annual Report on U.S. Wind Power Installation, Cost, and Performance Trends: 2006." (2007) 24.

2006

Bolinger, Mark."Hedging Future Gas Price Risk with Wind Power."UWIG Annual Meeting Arlington, Virginia April 6, 2006 (2006).

Wiser, Ryan H., Mark Bolinger, Peter Cappers, and Robert Margolis."Letting the Sun Shine on Solar Costs: An Empirical Investigation of Photovoltaic Cost Trends in California." (2006) 67.

2005

Bolinger, Mark, and Ryan H. Wiser."Balancing Cost and Risk: The Treatment of Renewable Energy in Western Utility Resource Plans." (2005) 100.

Wiser, Ryan H., Mark Bolinger, and Matt St. Clair."Easing the Natural Gas Crisis: Reducing Natural Gas Prices through Increased Deployment of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency." (2005) 64.

2004

Edwards, Jennifer L., Ryan H. Wiser, and Mark Bolinger."Evaluating State Markets for Residential Wind Systems: Results from an Economic and Policy Analysis Tool." (2004) 102.