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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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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).

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

Wei, Max, Chao Ding, Nihar Shah, Brian Holuj, and Marco Duran."Model Regulation Guidelines for Energy-Efficient Ceiling Fans." (2023).

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

Wei, Max, and Nihar Shah."Costs and benefits of improving cooling equipment efficiency including a novel improvement-linked incentive approach: Quantifying the opportunity for combining aggressive energy efficiency with Montreal Protocol refrigerant transition." (2023).

Langevin, Jared, Aven Satre-Meloy, Andrew Satchwell, Ryan Hledik, Julia Olszewski, Kate Peters, and Handi Chandra-Putra."Demand-side solutions in the U.S. building sector could achieve deep emissions reductions and avoid over $100 billion in power sector costs."One Earth 6.8 (2023) 1005-2031. DOI

Leventis, Greg, and Jeff Deason."Commercial PACE Project Origination: Leverage Points for Growing the Project Pipeline." (2023).

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).

Lu, Hongyou, Tianqi Zhou, and Nan Zhou."Industrial Energy Intensity Benchmarking and Energy Transition in Inner Mongolia." (2023).

Grahovac, Milica, Shreya Agarwal, Brian F. Gerke, Sarah Smith, and Marius Stuebs."Quantitative Universal Option Prioritizer (QUOP) v1.0.0." (2023). DOI

Singh, Reshma, and Yashima Jain."Advancing Net-zero Built Environments: Promoting Equitable Wellness for All."SHELTER 24 (2023).

Zhou, Ella, Sika Gadzanku, Cabell Hodge, Mike Campton, Stephane de la Rue du Can, and Jingjing Zhang."Best Practices in Electricity Load Modeling and Forecasting for Long-Term Power System Planning." (2023).

Fujita, K. Sydny."Commercial, industrial, and institutional discount rate estimation for efficiency standards analysis: Sector-level data 1998–2022." (2023).

Sun, Qingyi, Jing Ke, Camilla Dunham, Joong Hoon Sim, and Yuting Chen."Using Field-Metered Data to Characterize Consumer Usage Patterns of Residential Dishwashers." (2023).

Letschert, Virginie E., Shreya Agarwal, Stephane de la Rue du Can, and Won Young Park."Cost-Benefit Analysis for Air Conditioner in Tunisia." (2023).

Murphy, Sean, and Natalie Mims Frick."Estimating the Drivers of the Cost of Saved Electricity in Utility Customer-Funded Energy Efficiency Programs."Energies 16.5 (2023). DOI

Blum, Helcio, Victor H. Franco, and Sarah K. Price."A Survey of Direct Heating Equipment Market Actors in California." (2023).

2022

Ganeshalingam, Mohan, Robert Hosbach, Liat Zavodivker, Brian F. Gerke, Colleen Kantner, and Hannah Stratton."Consumer Purchasing Behavior and Usage of Lighting in the Residential Sector." (2022).

Woolf, Tim, Alice Napoleon, Natalie Mims Frick, Lisa C. Schwartz, and Julie Michals."Distributional Equity Analysis: Advisory Committee." (2022).

Pigman, Margaret, Natalie Mims Frick, Eric Wilson, Andrew Parker, and Elaina Present."End-Use Load Profiles for the U.S. Building Stock: Practical Guidance on Accessing and Using the Data." (2022).

Viaud, Gautier, Yuting Chen, and Paul-Henry Cournede."Full Bayesian Inference in Hidden Markov Models of Plant Growth."The Annals of Applied Statistics 16 (2022). DOI

Hu, Wei, Kyle Bradbury, Jordan M. Malof, Boning Li, Bohao Huang, Artem Streltsov, K. Sydny Fujita, and Ben Hoen."What you get is not always what you see—pitfalls in solar array assessment using overhead imagery."Applied Energy 327 (2022). DOI

Fujita, K. Sydny."Commercial, industrial, and institutional discount rate estimation for efficiency standards analysis: Sector-level data 1998–2021." (2022).

Shaffie, Ambereen, Nihar Shah, Nihan Karali, Won Young Park, Moustafa Al-Sammany, Brian Holuj, and Leon Becker."Cooling Egypt: Cost and benefits of room air conditioner efficiency improvement in Egypt." (2022).

Piette, Mary Ann, Jingjing Liu, Bruce Nordman, Sarah Smith, Richard E. Brown, Marco Pritoni, and Brian F. Gerke."Accelerating Decarbonization with the California Load Flexibility Research and Deployment Hub." (2022).

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