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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

Gorman, Will, Galen L Barbose, Cesca Miller, Phillip White, Juan Pablo Carvallo, and Sunhee Baik."Evaluating the potential for solar-plus-storage backup power in the United States as homes integrate efficient, flexible, and electrified energy technologies."Energy 304 (2024). DOI

2023

Gorman, Will, Galen L Barbose, Cesca Miller, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Sunhee Baik, and Philip White."Solar+Storage for Household Back-up Power: Implications of building efficiency, load flexibility, and electrification for backup during long-duration power interruptions." (2023).

Baik, Sunhee, Galen L Barbose, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Cesca Miller, Will Gorman, and Michael Spears."Backup Power Performance of Solar-plus-Storage Systems during Routine Power Interruptions: A Case Study Application of Berkeley Lab’s PRESTO Model." (2023).

Gorman, Will, Galen L Barbose, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Sunhee Baik, Cesca Miller, Philip White, and Marlena Prapost."County-level assessment of behind-the-meter solar and storage to mitigate long duration power interruptions for residential customers."Applied Energy 342 (2023). DOI

2022

Gorman, Will, Galen L Barbose, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Sunhee Baik, Cesca Miller, Philip White, and Marlena Prapost."Evaluating the Capabilities of Behind-the-Meter Solar-plus-Storage for Providing Backup Power during Long-Duration Power Interruptions." (2022).

Watson, Kevin."Best Practices and Considerations for Siting Battery Storage Systems." (2022).

Watson, Kevin."Severe Weather Considerations for Siting Solar PV Systems." (2022).

2021

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Stephanie Bieler, Myles T Collins, Joscha Mueller, Christoph Gehbauer, Douglas J Gotham, and Peter H Larsen."A framework to measure the technical, economic, and rate impacts of distributed solar, electric vehicles, and storage."Applied Energy 297 (2021). DOI

2020

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Nan Zhang, Sean Murphy, Benjamin Leibowicz, and Peter H Larsen."The economic value of a centralized approach to distributed resource investment and operation."Applied Energy 269 (2020). DOI

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Myles T Collins, Stephanie Bieler, Joscha Mueller, Christoph Gehbauer, and Peter H Larsen."Indiana 21st Century Energy Policy: Emerging Technologies on the Electricity Distribution System." (2020).

2017

Hoen, Ben, Sandra Adomatis, Thomas Jackson, Joshua Graff-Zivin, Mark A Thayer, Geoffrey T Klise, and Ryan H Wiser."Multi-State Residential Transaction Estimates of Solar Photovoltaic System Premiums."Renewable Energy Focus 19-20 (2017) 90-103. DOI

Hoen, Ben, Joseph Rand, and Sandra Adomatis."Leasing Into the Sun A Mixed Method Analysis of Transactions of Homes with Third Party Owned Solar." (2017).

2016

Stukel, Laura, Ben Hoen, Sandra Adomatis, Craig Foley, and Laura Parsons."Capturing the Sun: A Roadmap for Navigating Data-Access Challenges and Auto-Populating Solar Home Sales Listings." (2016).

Adomatis, Sandra, and Ben Hoen."An Analysis of Solar Home Paired Sales across Six States."The Appraisal Journal 84.1 (2016) 27-42.

2015

Adomatis, Sandra, and Ben Hoen."Appraising into the Sun: Six-State Solar Home Paired-Sales Analysis." (2015).

2013

Hoen, Ben, Geoffrey T Klise, Joshua Graff-Zivin, Mark A Thayer, Joachim Seel, and Ryan H Wiser."Exploring California PV Home Premiums." (2013).

Hoen, Ben, Ryan H Wiser, Mark A Thayer, and Peter Cappers."Residential Photovoltaic Energy Systems in California: The Effect on Home Sales Prices."Contemporary Economic Policy 31.4 (2013) 708 - 718. DOI

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

Hoen, Ben, Ryan H Wiser, Mark A Thayer, and Peter Cappers."Do PV systems increase residential selling prices? If so, how can practitioners estimate this increase?."2012 38th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (2012) 001774 - 001777. DOI

Hoen, Ben, Ryan H Wiser, Mark A Thayer, and Peter Cappers."Residential Photovoltaic Energy Systems in California: The Effect on Home Sales Prices." (2012).

2011

Hoen, Ben, Ryan H Wiser, Peter Cappers, and Mark A Thayer."Do Photovoltaic Energy Systems Affect Residential Selling Prices? Results from a California Statewide Investigation."40th Annual National Solar Conference (Solar 2011) (2011).

Hoen, Ben, Peter Cappers, Ryan H Wiser, and Mark A Thayer."An Analysis of the Effects of Photovoltaic Energy Systems on Residential Selling Prices in California."American Real Estate Society Annual Conference (2011).

Hoen, Ben, Ryan H Wiser, Peter Cappers, and Mark A Thayer."An Analysis of the Effects of Residential Photovoltaic Energy Systems on Home Sales Prices in California." (2011) 60.