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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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2024

Frick, Natalie Mims, Lisa C. Schwartz, Julieta Giraldez, Cody Davis, Samir Succar, Ronny Sandoval, Sara Peterson, Tom Wall, Stephen Torres, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Nichole L Hanus, and Josh A. Schellenberg."Western Regional Training: Planning for Distribution Systems, Distributed Energy Resources, and Resilience." (2024).

2023

Pastor, Angela Ortega, Ashley Books, Naïm R. Darghouth, and Dan Gaspar."COP28 Outcomes Report." (2023).

De Martini, Paul, and Lisa C. Schwartz."Distribution System Evolution." (2023).

Schwartz, Lisa C., Natalie Mims Frick, Julieta Giraldez, Cody Davis, Samir Succar, Ronny Sandoval, Eliza Hotchkiss, Josh A. Schellenberg, Tom Wall, Peter H. Larsen, Nichole L Hanus, and Jane Frantz."Eastern Regional Training: Planning for Distribution Systems, Distributed Energy Resources, and Resilience." (2023).

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

Heleno, Miguel, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Alan Valenzuela, Greg Leventis, Cesca Miller, and Jeff Deason."Distribution Grid Impacts of Community Solar." (2023).

Larsen, Peter H., Lisa C. Schwartz, and Joe Paladino."Resilience Training for the Public Utility Commission of Texas." (2023).

Mohanty, Priyanka, Emilia Chojkiewicz, Epica Mandal Sarkar, Rohit Laumas, Akash Saraf, Avanthika Satheesh, and Nikit Abhyankar."Review of Grid-Scale Energy Storage Technologies Globally and in India." (2023).

Xiang, Chenxi, Xinye Zheng, Feng Song, Jiang Lin, and Zhigao Jiang."Assessing the roles of efficient market versus regulatory capture in China’s power market reform."Nature Energy (2023). DOI

Keen, Jeremy, Erik Pohl, Natalie Mims Frick, Juan Pablo Carvallo, and Lisa C. Schwartz."Duke Energy’s Integrated System and Operations Planning: A comparative analysis of integrated planning practices." (2023).

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Nan Zhang, Benjamin D. Leibowicz, Thomas Carr, Sunhee Baik, and Peter H. Larsen."A Guide for Improved Resource Adequacy Assessments in Evolving Power Systems: Institutional and Technical Dimensions." (2023).

Schwartz, Lisa C.."Distribution and Grid Modernization Planning to Accelerate Deployment of Distributed Energy Resources." (2023).

Frick, Natalie Mims, Lisa C. Schwartz, Elaine Prause, and Raphael Breit."Distribution System Planning: Goals & Objectives." (2023).

Schwartz, Lisa C.."State Approaches for Distribution System Planning, including Grid Modernization." (2023).

Abhyankar, Nikit, Priyanka Mohanty, Shruti M. Deorah, Nihan Karali, Umed Paliwal, Jessica Kersey, and Amol A. Phadke."Pathways to Atmanirbhar Bharat: Harnessing India's Renewable Edge for Cost-Effective Energy Independence by 2047." (2023).

Relf, Grace, Joy Wang, Fredrich Kahrl, Paul De Martini, Caitlyn Edmundson, Rob Peterson, Sean Morash, Brad Borum, Tim Woolf, Jennifer Yoshimura, Sarah Hall, Tera Dornfeld, Josh L. Bode, Megan Gilman, Robert Peterson, Lisa C. Schwartz, James Lester, and Nick Sayen."PUC Peer-Sharing Webinars on Integrated Distribution System Planning." (2023).

Frick, Natalie Mims, Allison Campbell, Brittany Tarufelli, Elaine Hale, Aven Satre-Meloy, Christine A. Holland, and Ashok Sekar."Developing Forecasts: Basics & Best Practices." (2023).

Kim, James Hyungkwan, Mark Bolinger, Andrew D. Mills, and Ryan H. Wiser."Rethinking the Role of Financial Transmission Rights in Wind-Rich Electricity Markets in the Central U.S.."The Energy Journal 44.6 (2023). DOI

2022

Frick, Natalie Mims, Andrew Satchwell, and Miguel Heleno."Quantifying Locational Net Benefits of DER for Distribution Systems." (2022).

Satchwell, Andrew, Brady Cowiestoll, Elaine Hale, Brian F. Gerke, Paige Jadun, Cong Zhang, and Samanvitha Murthy."Assessing the Interactive Impacts of Energy Efficiency and Demand Response on Power System Costs and Emissions." (2022).

Abhyankar, Nikit, Jiang Lin, Fredrich Kahrl, Shengfei Yin, Umed Paliwal, Xu Liu, Nina Khanna, Amol A. Phadke, Qian Luo, David Wooley, Mike O’Boyle, Olivia Ashmoore, Robbie Orvis, and Michelle Solomon."Achieving an 80% Carbon Free Electricity System in China by 2035." (2022).

Satchwell, Andrew, Ryan Hledik, Oleksandr Kuzura, Oluwatobi Adekanye, and Chioke B. Harris."Valuing Residential Energy Efficiency: Analysis for a Prototypical Southeastern Utility." (2022).

De Martini, Paul, Alan Cooke, Fredrich Kahrl, Lavelle Freeman, Juan Martinez, Elton Prifti, Kim Cullen, Jody Londo, Tim Woolf, Rebecca O'Neil, Dan Boff, Xiangqi Zhu, Seemita Pal, Ron Melton, Lisa C. Schwartz, Natalie Mims Frick, and Juliet Homer."New England PUCs training on electricity system planning." (2022).

Schwartz, Lisa C.."Integrated distribution planning overview." (2022).

McDermott, Thomas E., Killian McKenna, Miguel Heleno, Bilal Ahmad Bhatti, Michael Emmanuel, and Sydney Forrester."Distribution System Research Roadmap." (2022). DOI