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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.

Publications: Efficiency, Electrification, and Flexibility

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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

Pereira, Guillermo, Cynthia Regnier, Lazlo Paul, Marco Pritoni, and Cecilia Johnson."Bringing demand flexibility to market: Insight on emerging business models from U.S. projects." (2024).

Davis, Cody, and Lisa C Schwartz."Sizing Electric Service Panels and Utility Infrastructure for Residential Electrification and Distributed Energy Resources Adoption." (2024).

Parmenter, Kelly, Greg Leventis, and Jeff Deason."Designing and Executing Measurement and Verification Standards for C-PACE Programs: Lessons Learned from Leading C-PACE Programs." (2024).

Pitkin, Jeff, Jeff Deason, and Greg Leventis."Leveraging State Clean Water Revolving Funds to Expand Clean Energy Financing." (2024).

2023

Nelson, Ron, Bradley Cebulko, Thomas Van Hentenryck, Erin Mettler, and Natalie Mims Frick."A Framework for Non-Pipeline Alternatives Analysis and Review of Existing Approaches." (2023).

Ball, Jason, Sydney Forrester, Alexandra Grayson, and Andrew Satchwell."Electric Vehicle Program Designs and Strategies to Enhance Equitable Deployment." (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).

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, and Lisa C Schwartz."The use of price-based demand response as a resource in electricity system planning." (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).

Frick, Natalie Mims."Considering the time and locational value of efficiency in electricity planning." (2023).

Pereira, Guillermo, Lisa C Schwartz, and Natalie Mims Frick."Using Energy Efficiency to Help Meet Distribution System Capacity Needs." (2023).

Abhyankar, Nikit, Priyanka Mohanty, Shruti M Deorah, Nihan Karali, Umed Paliwal, Jessica Kersey, and Amol A Phadke."India’s path towards energy independence and a clean future: Harnessing India's renewable edge for cost-effective energy independence by 2047."The Electricity Journal 36.5 (2023). DOI

2022

Abhyankar, Nikit, Narayan Gopinathan, Aditya Khandekar, Nihan Karali, Amol A Phadke, and Deepak Rajagopal."Freight Trucks in India are Primed for Electrification." (2022).

Ding, Tao, Yuge Sun, Can Huang, Chenlu Mu, Yuqi Fan, Jiang Lin, and Yining Qin."Pathways of clean energy heating electrification programs for reducing carbon emissions in Northwest China."Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 166 (2022). DOI

Li, Rongling, Andrew Satchwell, Donal Finn, Toke Haunstrup Christensen, Michael Kummert, Jérôme Le Dréau, Rui Amaral Lopes, Henrick Madsen, Jaume Salom, Gregor P Henze, and Kim Wittchen."Ten Questions Concerning Energy Flexibility In Buildings."Building and Environment 223 (2022). DOI

Schiller, Steven R, Jeff Deason, Greg Leventis, Lisa C Schwartz, and Kelly Parmenter."The Future of Energy Efficiency for U.S. Buildings - Drivers and Market Scenarios." (2022).

Schiller, Steven R, Jeff Deason, Kelly Parmenter, Greg Leventis, and Lisa C Schwartz."Future of Energy Efficiency in Buildings: Drivers and Market Expectations." (2022).

Bistline, John, Nikit Abhyankar, Geoffrey Blanford, Leon Clarke, Rachel Fakhry, Haewon McJeon, John Reilly, Christopher Roney, Tom Wilson, Mei Yuan, and Alicia Zhao."Actions for reducing US emissions at least 50% by 2030."Science 376.6596 (2022) 922 - 924. DOI

Deorah, Shruti M, Aditya Khandekar, Deepak Rajagopal, and Nikit Abhyankar."Pathways for Electrification of South Asia’s Transportation Sector." (2022).

Karali, Nihan, Nikit Abhyankar, and Shruti M Deorah."Electricity demand in South Asia – data gaps and pathways for research and modeling." (2022).

2021

Stuart, Elizabeth."An Ally in Your Corner: Benefits of Using Owner's Representatives." (2021).

Schiller, Steven R."Demand Side Energy Management." (2021).

Stuart, Elizabeth, Nichole L Hanus, Juan Pablo Carvallo, and Peter H Larsen."U.S. ESCO Industry: Industry Size and Recent Market Trends." (2021).

Phadke, Amol A, Nikit Abhyankar, Jessica Kersey, Taylor McNair, Umed Paliwal, David Wooley, Olivia Ashmoore, Robbie Orvis, Michael O’Boyle, Ric O’Connell, Utkarsha Agwan, Priyanka Mohanty, Priya Sreedharan, and Deepak Rajagopal."2035 The Report: Plummeting Costs and Dramatic Improvements In Batteries Can Accelerate Our Clean Transportation Future." (2021).