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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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2015

Frost & Sullivan, ."Analysis of the US Power Quality Equipment Market." (2015).

Larsen, Peter H., Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Joseph H Eto, and James L. Sweeney."Assessing Changes in the Reliability of the U.S. Electric Power System." (2015).

Fujita, K. Sydny."Estimating Price Elasticity using Market-Level Appliance Data." (2015).

Cappers, Peter, Liesel Hans, and Richard M. Scheer."American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009: Interim Report on Customer Acceptance, Retention, and Response to Time-Based Rates from the Consumer Behavior Studies." (2015).

Gopal, Anand R., Maggie Witt, Nikit Abhyankar, Colin Sheppard, and Andrew Harris."Battery electric vehicles can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and make renewable energy cheaper in India." (2015).

Satchwell, Andrew, Peter Cappers, Lisa C. Schwartz, and Emily Martin Fadrhonc."A Framework for Organizing Current and Future Electric Utility Regulatory and Business Models." (2015).

Todd, Annika, Michael Perry, Brian Smith, Michael J. Sullivan, Peter Cappers, and Charles A. Goldman."Insights from Smart Meters: Ramp-up, dependability, and short-term persistence of savings from Home Energy Reports." (2015).

Spurlock, C. Anna."Loss Aversion and Time-Differentiated Electricity Pricing." (2015).

Gerke, Brian F., Allison T. Ngo, and Kibret S. Fisseha."Recent price trends and learning curves for household LED lamps from a regression analysis of Internet retail data." (2015).

Willem, Henry, Sarah K. Price, Hannah Stratton, Maithili Iyer, Bereket Beraki, Stacy Pratt, and Dana Hansen."Understanding Cooking Behavior in U.S. Households." (2015).

."Assessment of Historical Transmission Schedules and Flows in the Eastern Interconnection, v1.0." (2015).

Yang, Hung-Chia, Sally M. Donovan, Scott J. Young, Jeffery B. Greenblatt, and Louis-Benoit Desroches."Assessment of household appliance surveys collected with Amazon Mechanical Turk."Energy Efficiency (2015). DOI

Cappers, Peter, and Andrew Satchwell."Considerations for State Regulators and Policymakers in a Post-FERC Order 745 World."ElectricityPolicy.com (2015).

Sullivan, Michael J., Josh A. Schellenberg, and Marshall Blundell."Updated Value of Service Reliability Estimates for Electric Utility Customers in the United States." (2015).

Yin, Rongxin, Girish Ghatikar, Ranjit Deshmukh, and Aamir Hussain Khan."Findings from an Advanced Demand Response Smart Grid Project to Improve Electricity Reliability in India."India Smart Grid Week 2015 (2015).

2014

Desroches, Louis-Benoit, Heidi Fuchs, Jeffery B. Greenblatt, Stacy Pratt, Henry Willem, Erin S. Claybaugh, Bereket Beraki, Mythri Nagaraju, Sarah K. Price, and Scott J. Young."Computer usage and national energy consumption: Results from a field-metering study." (2014).

Todd, Annika, Michael Perry, Brian Smith, Michael J. Sullivan, Peter Cappers, and Charles A. Goldman."Insights from Smart Meters: Identifying Specific Actions, Behaviors and Characteristics that drive savings in Behavior-Based Programs." (2014).

Burke, Thomas A., Henry Willem, Chun Chun Ni, Hannah Stratton, Yuting Chen, Mohan Ganeshalingam, Maithili Iyer, Sarah K. Price, and Camilla Dunham."Using Field-Metered Data to Quantify Annual Energy Use of Portable Air Conditioners." (2014).

Gerke, Brian F., Allison T. Ngo, Andrea L. Alstone, and Kibret S. Fisseha."The Evolving Price of Household LED Lamps: Recent Trends and Historical Comparisons for the US Market." (2014).

Goldman, Charles A.."State/Provincial Regulation in 2030: Gazing into the Crystal Ball." (2014).

Shen, Bo, Girish Ghatikar, Zeng Lei, Jinkai Li, Greg Wikler, and Phil Martin."The Role of Regulatory Reforms, Market Changes, and Technology Development to Make Demand Response A Viable Resource in Meeting Energy Challenges."Applied Energy 130 (2014) 814–823. DOI

Desroches, Louis-Benoit, Jeffery B. Greenblatt, Stacy Pratt, Henry Willem, Erin S. Claybaugh, Bereket Beraki, Mythri Nagaraju, Sarah K. Price, Scott J. Young, Sally M. Donovan, and Mohan Ganeshalingam."Video game console usage and US national energy consumption: Results from a field-metering study."Energy Efficiency (2014). DOI

Cappers, Peter, and Richard M. Scheer."American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009: Experiences from the Consumer Behavior Studies on Engaging Customers." (2014).

Yang, Hung-Chia, Chun Chun Ni, Stacy Pratt, Sarah K. Price, Hannah Stratton, Henry Willem, and Camilla Dunham."Dehumidifier Use in the U.S. Residential Sector: Results from an Amazon Mechanical Turk Survey." (2014).

Phadke, Amol A., Nikit Abhyankar, and Poorvi Rao."Empirical Analysis of the Variability of Wind Generation in India: Implications for Grid Integration." (2014).