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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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Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Energy Storage

Industrial Energy Analysis

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Building Technology (BTUS)

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1996

Eto, Joseph H, Charles A. Goldman, and M. Suzie Kito."Ratepayer-Funded Energy-Efficiency Programs in a Restructured Electricity Industry: Issues, Options, and Unanswered Questions." (1996) 24.

Eto, Joseph H, M. Suzie Kito, Leslie J. Shown, and Richard Sonnenblick."Where Did the Money Go? The Cost and Measured Performance of the Largest 1992 Commercial Sector DSM Programs."ACEEE 1996 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 6 (1996).

Eto, Joseph H, Ralph Prahl, and Jeff Schlegel."A Scoping Study on Energy-Efficiency Market Transformation by California Utility DSM Programs." (1996) 150.

Eto, Joseph H, and Eric Hirst."What Kind of Future for Energy Efficiency?."The Electricity Journal 9.5 (1996). DOI

Golove, William H., and Joseph H Eto."Market Barriers to Energy Efficiency: A Critical Reappraisal of the Rationale for Public Policies to Promote Energy Efficiency." (1996) 66.

1995

Eto, Joseph H, M. Suzie Kito, Leslie J. Shown, and Richard Sonnenblick."Where Did the Money Go? The Cost and Performance of the Largest Commercial Sector DSM Programs." (1995).

Sonnenblick, Richard, and Joseph H Eto."A Framework for Improving the Cost-Effectiveness of DSM Program Evaluations." (1995) 154.

Hirst, Eric, and Joseph H Eto."Justification for Electric-Utility Energy-Efficiency Programs." (1995).

Vine, Edward L.."INDEEP Annual Report (1994-1995)." (1995) 71.

Vine, Edward L.."International DSM and DSM Program Evaluation: An INDEEP Assessment." (1995).

Sonnenblick, Richard, and Joseph H Eto."Calculating the Uncertainty Estimates of DSM Program Cost-Effectiveness."1995 International Energy Program Evalution Conference (1995).

Piette, Mary Ann, Mike Cramer, Joseph H Eto, and Jonathan G. Koomey."Office Technology Energy Use and Savings Potential in New York." (1995).

Sonnenblick, Richard, and Joseph H Eto."A Review of Commerical Sector Lighting Program Evaluation."Energy Services Journal 1 (1995) 22.

1994

Janda, Kathryn B.."Bounded Decision Making and Analytical Biases in Demand Side Management."American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE) Summer Study 1994 (1994).

Vine, Edward L., Joseph H Eto, Leslie J. Shown, Richard Sonnenblick, and Christopher T. Payne."Evaluation of Commercial Lighting Programs: A DEEP Assessment."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (1994).

Sonnenblick, Richard, and Joseph H Eto."Uncertainty in Site Inspection and Tracking Database Estimates of Saving."1994 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (1994).

Eto, Joseph H, Edward L. Vine, Leslie J. Shown, Richard Sonnenblick, and Christopher T. Payne."The Cost and Performance of Utility Commercial Lighting Programs." (1994).

Eto, Joseph H, Steven Stoft, and Timothy N Belden."The Theory and Practice of Decoupling." (1994) 90.

1993

Pirkey, Diane, and Joseph H Eto."Demand-Side Management Data Collection Activities: The Role of A National Government."European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ECEEE) Summer Study (1993) 6.

Eto, Joseph H, and Charles A. Goldman."The Role of Public Power Utilities in Promoting Customer Energy Efficiency: Examples from the United States."European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ECEEE) Summer Study (1993) 10.

Nadel, Steven M., Jennifer Jordon, Joseph H Eto, and Maxwell Kelley."Gas DSM - Opportunities and Experiences."Sixth National Demand-side Management Conference - Making a Difference (1993).

Eto, Joseph H."The Potential for Gas Energy Efficiency and the Economics of Gas Fuel-Switching for Space Conditioning in the Commercial Sector of the Niagara Mohawk Gas Service Territory." (1993).

1992

Eto, Joseph H, Alan Destribats, and Donald Schultz."Sharing the Savings to Promote Energy Efficiency."Regulatory Incentives for Demand-Side Management (1992) 36.

1991

Eto, Joseph H, and Florentin Krause."Least-Cost Planning Handbook: Planowawanie Wedlug Najmniejszych Koztow." (1991).

Eto, Joseph H, and Charles A. Goldman."The Business of Delivering Energy Services in California." (1991).