Research Themes +
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.
Strategic Initiatives +
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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About Us +
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.

Publications by Research Area

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Publications: Customer Funded Programs-CoSE

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2023

Murphy, Sean, and Natalie Mims Frick."Estimating the Drivers of the Cost of Saved Electricity in Utility Customer-Funded Energy Efficiency Programs."Energies 16.5 (2023). DOI

2021

Frick, Natalie Mims, Sean Murphy, Chandler Miller, and Margaret Pigman."Still the One: Efficiency Remains a Cost-Effective Electricity Resource." (2021).

Murphy, Sean, and Jeff Deason."Energy efficiency lifetimes: How reported savings of electric and gas energy efficiency programs change over time." (2021).

2020

Frick, Natalie Mims, Sean Murphy, Chandler Miller, Greg Leventis, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Charles A. Goldman, and Lisa C. Schwartz."Peak Demand Savings from Efficiency: Opportunities and Practices." (2020).

Goldman, Charles A., Ian M. Hoffman, Sean Murphy, Natalie Mims Frick, Greg Leventis, and Lisa C. Schwartz."The Cost of Saving Electricity: A Multi-Program Cost Curve for Programs Funded by U.S. Utility Customers."Energies 13 (2020). DOI

Schiller, Steven R., Ian M. Hoffman, Sean Murphy, Greg Leventis, and Lisa C. Schwartz."Cost of saving natural gas through efficiency programs funded by utility customers: 2012–2017." (2020).

2019

Schwartz, Lisa C., Ian M. Hoffman, Steven R. Schiller, Sean Murphy, and Greg Leventis."Cost of Saving Electricity Through Efficiency Programs Funded by Customers of Publicly Owned Utilities: 2012–2017." (2019).

Frick, Natalie Mims, Ian M. Hoffman, Charles A. Goldman, Greg Leventis, Sean Murphy, and Lisa C. Schwartz."Peak Demand Impacts From Electricity Efficiency Programs." (2019).

2018

Hoffman, Ian M., Charles A. Goldman, Sean Murphy, Natalie Mims Frick, Greg Leventis, and Lisa C. Schwartz."The Cost of Saving Electricity Through Energy Efficiency Programs Funded by Utility Customers: 2009–2015." (2018).

2017

Hoffman, Ian M., Charles A. Goldman, Gregory M. Rybka, Greg Leventis, Lisa C. Schwartz, Alan H. Sanstad, and Steven R. Schiller."Estimating the cost of saving electricity through U.S. utility customer-funded energy efficiency programs."Energy Policy 104 (2017) 1-12. DOI

Hoffman, Ian M., Greg Leventis, and Charles A. Goldman."Trends in the Program Administrator Cost of Saving Electricity for Utility Customer-Funded Energy Efficiency Programs." (2017).

2016

Hoffman, Alex, Gregory M. Rybka, David Shephard-Gaw, Ian M. Hoffman, Charles A. Goldman, and Lisa C. Schwartz."Energy Efficiency Reporting Tool for Public Power Utilities." (2016).

2015

Hoffman, Ian M., Steven R. Schiller, Annika Todd, Megan A. Billingsley, Charles A. Goldman, and Lisa C. Schwartz."Energy Savings Lifetimes and Persistence: Practices, Issues and Data." (2015).

Hoffman, Ian M., Gregory M. Rybka, Greg Leventis, Charles A. Goldman, Lisa C. Schwartz, Megan A. Billingsley, and Steven R. Schiller."The Total Cost of Saving Electricity Through Utility Customer-Funded Energy Efficiency Programs: Estimates at the National, State, Sector and Program Level." (2015).

2013

Hoffman, Ian M., Megan A. Billingsley, Steven R. Schiller, Charles A. Goldman, and Elizabeth Stuart."Energy Efficiency Program Typology and Data Metrics: Enabling Multi-State Analyses Through the Use of Common Terminology." (2013).

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