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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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2001

Heffner, Grayson C., and Charles A. Goldman."Demand Responsive Programs - An Emerging Resource for Competitive Electricity Markets?." (2001) 15.

Osborn, Julie G., and Cornelia Kawann."Reliability of the U.S. Electricity System: Recent Trends and Current Issues." (2001) 58.

Eto, Joseph H, Jonathan G. Koomey, Bryan Lehman, Nathan C. Martin, Evan Mills, Carrie A. Webber, and Ernst Worrell."Scoping Study on Trends in the Economic Value of Electricity Reliability to the U.S. Economy." (2001) 148.

Bolinger, Mark."Community Wind Power Ownership Schemes in Europe and their Relevance to the United States." (2001) 73.

Bolinger, Mark, Ryan H. Wiser, Lewis Milford, Michael Stoddard, and Kevin Porter."Clean Energy Funds: An Overview of State Support for Renewable Energy." (2001) 121.

Wiser, Ryan H., Meredith Fowlie, and Edward Holt."Public Goods and Private Interests: Understanding Non-Residential Demand for Green Power." (2001) 38.

Osborn, Julie G., Frances Wood, R. Cooper Richey, Sandy Sanders, Walter Short, and Jonathan G. Koomey."A Sensitivity Analysis of the Treatment of Wind Energy in the AEO99 Version of NEMS." (2001) 43.

2000

Goldman, Charles A.."Assessment of Experiences with Third Party Approaches." (2000) 52.

Siddiqui, Afzal S.."Managing Electricity Reliability Risk Through the Futures Markets." (2000) 38.

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."The Energy Journal 21.2 (2000) 62.

Wiser, Ryan H., Mark Bolinger, and Edward Holt."Customer Choice and Green Power Marketing: A Critical Review and Analysis of Experience to Date." (2000) 16.

Goldman, Charles A., Patricia A. Juergens, Meredith Fowlie, Julie G. Osborn, Kaoru Kawamoto, and Terry E. Singer."Historical Performance of the U.S. ESCO Industry: Results from the NAESCO Project Database." (2000) 15.

Schiller, Steven R., Charles A. Goldman, and Brian Henderson."Public Benefit Charge Funded Performance Contracting Programs – Survey and Guidelines." (2000) 20.

Golove, William H., Mark Bolinger, and Ryan H. Wiser."Purchasing Renewable Energy: A Guidebook for Federal Agencies." (2000) 23.

1999

Golove, William H., Timothy Beatty, Ryan H. Wiser, and Charles A. Goldman."Electricity Restructuring and Value-Added Services: Does Direct Access Make a Difference." (1999) 12.

Wiser, Ryan H.."The Role of Public Policy in Emerging Green Power Markets: An Analysis of Marketer Preferences." (1999) 53.

Dayton, David S., Charles A. Goldman, and Steven J. Pickle."Portrait of an Emerging Industry ESCOs are recreating themselves to explore new markets and adapt to changing ones." (1999) 11.

Wiser, Ryan H., Jeff Fang, Kevin Porter, and Ashley Houston."Green Power Marketing in Retail Competition: An Early Assessment." (1999) 30.

Eto, Joseph H, and John Zumerchik."Demand-Side Management."Macmillan Encyclopedia of Energy (1999).

1998

Eto, Joseph H."Guidelines for Assessing the Value and Cost-effectiveness of Regional Market Transformation Initiatives." (1998).

Wiser, Ryan H., Steven J. Pickle, and Joseph H Eto."Details, Details . . . The Impact of Market Rules on Emerging "Green" Energy Markets."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (1998) 17.

Wiser, Ryan H.."Supporting Renewable Generation Through Green Power Certification: The Green-e Program." (1998) 18.

Goldman, Charles A., Joseph H Eto, Ralph Prahl, and Jeff Schlegel."California's Nonresidential Standard Performance Contract Program."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (1998) 14.

Dayton, David S., Charles A. Goldman, and Steven J. Pickle."The Energy Services Company (ESCO) Industry: Industry and Market Trends." (1998) 17.

Prahl, Ralph, Jeff Schlegel, and Charles A. Goldman."Organizing for Market Transformation: Institutional Issues in the Creation of a New Energy Efficiency Policy Framework in California." (1998) 14.