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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

Langevin, Jared, Chioke B Harris, Aven Satre-Meloy, Handi Chandra Putra, Andrew Speake, Elaina Present, Rajendra Adhikari, Eric Wilson, and Andrew Satchwell."U.S. Building Energy Efficiency and Flexibility as an Electric Grid Resource."SSRN Electronic Journal (2021). DOI

2018

Liu, Shiyu, Zhaohong Bie, Jiang Lin, and Xifan Wang."Curtailment of renewable energy in Northwest China and market-based solutions."Energy Policy 123 (2018) 494 - 502. DOI

Lin, Jiang."China’s electricity switch won’t be swift or painless."Nature 562 (2018). DOI

Frick, Natalie Mims, Lisa C Schwartz, and Alyse Taylor-Anyikire."A Framework for Integrated Analysis of Distributed Energy Resources: Guide for States." (2018).

Fuchs, Heidi, Arman Shehabi, Mohan Ganeshalingam, Louis-Benoit Desroches, Brian Lim, Kurt Roth, and Allen Tsao."Characteristics and Energy Use of Volume Servers in the U.S.."2018 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018).

LaCommare, Kristina Hamachi, Joseph H Eto, and Heidemarie C Caswell."Distinguishing Among the Sources of Electric Service Interruptions."2018 IEEE International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems (PMAPS) (2018). DOI

Jones, Philip B, Jonathan Levy, Jenifer Bosco, John Howat, John W Van Alst, and Lisa C Schwartz."The Future of Transportation Electrification: Utility, Industry and Consumer Perspectives."Future Electric Utility Regulation Report Series FEUR Report No. 10 (2018).

Sullivan, Michael J, Myles T Collins, Josh A Schellenberg, and Peter H Larsen."Estimating Power System Interruption Costs: A Guidebook for Electric Utilities." (2018).

LaCommare, Kristina Hamachi, Joseph H Eto, Laurel N Dunn, and Michael D Sohn."Improving the Estimated Cost of Sustained Power Interruptions to Electricity Customers."Energy 153.15 June 2018 (2018) 1038-1047. DOI

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).

Fuchs, Heidi, Arian Aghajanzadeh, and Peter L Therkelsen."Using industry’s own words to quantify the benefits and challenges of ISO 50001."eceee Industrial Summer Study 2018 (2018).

Satchwell, Andrew, and Peter Cappers."Evolving Grid Services, Products, and Market Opportunities for Regulated Electric Utilities." (2018).

Coughlin, Katie, and Bereket Beraki."Residential Electricity Prices: A Review of Data Sources and Estimation Methods." (2018).

Frick, Natalie Mims, Tom Eckman, and Lisa C Schwartz."Time-Varying Value of Energy Efficiency in Michigan." (2018).

Deason, Jeff, and Sean Murphy."Assessing the PACE of California residential solar deployment: Impacts of Property Assessed Clean Energy programs on residential solar photovoltaic deployment in California, 2010-2015." (2018).

Lin, Jiang, Fredrich Kahrl, and Xu Liu."A regional analysis of excess capacity in China’s power systems."Resources, Conservation and Recycling 129 (2018). DOI

Potter, Jennifer, Elizabeth Stuart, and Peter Cappers."Barriers and Opportunities to Broader Adoption of Integrated Demand Side Management at Electric Utilities: A Scoping Study." (2018).

Lin, Jiang, David Fridley, Hongyou Lu, Lynn K Price, and Nan Zhou."Near-term trends in China's coal consumption." (2018).

Gerber, Daniel L, Vagelis Vossos, Wei Feng, Chris Marnay, Bruce Nordman, and Richard E Brown."A simulation-based efficiency comparison of AC and DC power distribution networks in commercial buildings."Applied Energy 210 (2018) 1167-1187. DOI

Schiller, Steven R, and Tom Eckman."SEE Action Guide for States: Evaluation, Measurement, and Verification Frameworks—Guidance for Energy Efficiency Portfolios Funded by Utility Customers." (2018).

2017

Dunham, Camilla, Heidi Fuchs, and Hannah Stratton."Benefits of a National Survey on Water Demand: Existing Data and Reporting Recommendations." (2017).

Lazar, Alina, Ling Jin, C Anna Spurlock, Annika Todd-Blick, Kesheng Wu, and Alex Sim."Data quality challenges with missing values and mixed types in joint sequence analysis."2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data)2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data) (2017). DOI

Iyer, Maithili, Satish Kumar, Sangeeta Mathew, Hannah Stratton, Paul A Mathew, and Mohini Singh."Establishing a commercial building energy data framework for India: Approaches, use cases, and institutions."INSPIRE 2017 (2017).

Eto, Joseph H, and Giulia Gallo."Regional Transmission Planning: A Review of Practices Following FERC Order Nos. 890 and 1000." (2017).

Fuchs, Heidi, Arman Shehabi, Mohan Ganeshalingam, Louis-Benoit Desroches, Brian Lim, Kurt Roth, and Allen Tsao."Characteristics and Energy Use of Volume Servers in the United States." (2017).