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: EAEI Renewable Energy

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2022

Meyers, Stephen, Rongxin Yin, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Jennifer Stokes-Draut, Cynthia Regnier, and Purabi Thakre."Innovative Technologies for a Low Carbon Electricity System." (2022).

2019

Millstein, Dev, James McCall, Jordan Macknick, Scott Nicholson, David Keyser, Seongeun Jeong, and Garvin A. Heath."GeoVision Analysis Supporting Task Force Report: Impacts." (2019).

2018

Barbose, Galen L.."U.S. Renewables Portfolio Standards: 2018 Annual Status Report." (2018).

Wiser, Ryan H., Naïm R. Darghouth, Ben Hoen, Galen L. Barbose, Joachim Seel, Varun Rai, Ariane Beck, Ashok Sekar, D. Cale Reeves, Erik Funkhouser, Eric O'Shaughnessy, Ben Sigrin, and Casey Canfield."Diffusion of Innovations: Interplay of Social, Economic, Technological, and Policy Drivers in the Solar Industry—Summary of UT Austin Student Capstone Research Projects." (2018).

Cui, Xinguang, Olga Kavvada, Tyler Huntington, and Corinne D. Scown."Strategies for near-term scale-up of cellulosic biofuel production using sorghum and crop residues in the U.S.."Environmental Research Letters (2018). DOI

Bolinger, Mark, and Joachim Seel."Utility-Scale Solar: Empirical Trends in Project Technology, Cost, Performance, and PPA Pricing in the United States – 2018 Edition." (2018).

Wiser, Ryan H., and Mark Bolinger."2017 Wind Technologies Market Report." (2018).

Hoen, Ben, Geoffrey T. Klise, Andrea Ambrosini, Bill Garber, and Jonathan Thatcher."Commercial PV Property Appraiser Survey: Summary of Results." (2018).

Taptich, Michael, Corinne D. Scown, Kate Piscopo, and Arpad Horvath."Drop-in biofuels offer strategies for meeting California’s 2030 climate mandate."Environmental Research Letters (2018). DOI

Griffin, Dayton."Creating Pathways to Success for Supersized Wind Turbine Blades: 2018 Workshop Summary Report." (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).

Breunig, Hanna, Tyler Huntington, Ling Jin, Alastair Robinson, and Corinne D. Scown."Temporal and geographic drivers of biomass residues in California."Resources, Conservation and Recycling 139 (2018) 287 - 297. DOI

2017

Thakur, Jagruti, Sebastian Rauner, Naïm R. Darghouth, and Basab Chakraborty."Exploring the impact of increased solar deployment levels on residential electricity bills in India."Renewable Energy 120.May 2018 (2017) 512-523. DOI

Firestone, Jeremy, Ben Hoen, Joseph Rand, Debi Elliott, Gundula Hübner, and Johannes Pohl."Reconsidering Barriers to Wind Power Projects: Community Engagement, Developer Transparency and Place."Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (2017) 1-17. DOI

Tongsopit, Sopitsuda, Owen R. Zinaman, and Naïm R. Darghouth."Understanding the Impact of Distributed Photovoltaic Adoption on Utility Revenues and Retail Electricity Tariffs in Thailand." (2017).

Zinaman, Owen R., Alexandra Aznar, Carl Linvill, Naïm R. Darghouth, Timon Dubbeling, and Emanuele Bianco."Grid-Connected Distributed Generation: Compensation Mechanism Basics." (2017).

Gagnon, Pieter, Anand Govindarajan, Lori Bird, Galen L. Barbose, Naïm R. Darghouth, and Andrew D. Mills."Solar + Storage Synergies for Managing Commercial-Customer Demand Charges." (2017).

Barbose, Galen L., Naïm R. Darghouth, Dev Millstein, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Nicholas DiSanti, and Rebecca Widiss."Tracking the Sun X: The Installed Price of Residential and Non-Residential Photovoltaic Systems in the United States." (2017).

Bolinger, Mark, Joachim Seel, and Kristina Hamachi LaCommare."Utility-Scale Solar 2016: An Empirical Analysis of Project Cost, Performance, and Pricing Trends in the United States." (2017).

Mai, Trieu, Eric Lantz, Matthew Mowers, and Ryan H. Wiser."The Value of Wind Technology Innovation: Implications for the U.S. Power System, Wind Industry, Electricity Consumers, and Environment." (2017).

Wiser, Ryan H., and Mark Bolinger."2016 Wind Technologies Market Report." (2017).

Millstein, Dev, Ryan H. Wiser, Mark Bolinger, and Galen L. Barbose."The climate and air-quality benefits of wind and solar power in the United States."Nature Energy 2 (2017). DOI

Darghouth, Naïm R., Galen L. Barbose, Andrew D. Mills, Ryan H. Wiser, Pieter Gagnon, and Lori Bird."Exploring Demand Charge Savings from Commercial Solar." (2017).

Barbose, Galen L.."U.S. Renewables Portfolio Standards: 2017 Annual Status Report." (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

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