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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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1998

Eto, Joseph H, Steven Stoft, and M. Suzie Kito."DSM Shareholder Incentives: Recent Designs and Economic Theory."Utilities Policy (1998) 16. DOI

1997

Fine, H. Alan, Leng Xiaozhuang, Reinhard Radermacher, Imam Haider, Steven M. Nadel, David Fridley, Ray Phillips, and Jeanne Briskin."The Sino - US CFC-Free Super-Efficient Refrigerator Project Progress Report: Prototype Design and Testing." (1997).

Jones, Evan, and Joseph H Eto."Financing End-Use Solar Technologies in a Restructured Electricity Industry: Comparing the Cost of Public Policies." (1997) 106.

Wiser, Ryan H., and Steven J. Pickle."Financing Investments in Renewable Energy: The Role of Policy Design and Restructuring." (1997) 101.

1996

Goldman, Charles A., M. Suzie Kito, and Mithra M. Moezzi."Evaluation of Public Service Electric & Gas Company's Standard Offer Program." (1996) 16.

Eto, Joseph H."The Past, Present, and Future of U.S. Utility Demand-Side Management Programs." (1996) 31.

Eto, Joseph H, Edward L. Vine, Leslie J. Shown, Richard Sonnenblick, and Christopher T. Payne."The Total Cost and Measured Performance of Utility-Sponsored Energy Efficiency Programs."The Energy Journal 17.1 (1996).

Golove, William H., and Joseph H Eto."Energy Efficiency, the Free Market and Rationales for Government Intervention."North American Conference of the USAEE/IAEE, Boston, Massachusetts, October 27-30, 1996 (1996) 10.

Goldman, Charles A., Willett Kempton, Anita Eide, Maithili Iyer, Mindi J. Farber, and Richard M. Scheer."Impact of Information and Communications Technologies on Residential Customer Energy Services." (1996) 89.

Goldman, Charles A., and David S. Dayton."Future Prospects for ESCOs in a Restructured Electricity Industry."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (1996) 11.

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).

Edgar, George, Charles A. Goldman, Barbara J. McKellar, Edward Carroll, Martin Kushler, and Wayne DeForest."Evalutations of ENvest sce and Teem Pilot Projects." (1996) 6.

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.

Busch, John F., and Joseph H Eto."Estimation of Avoided Costs for Electric Utility Demand-side Planning."Energy Sources 18 (1996) 28. DOI

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).

Goldman, Charles A., M. Suzie Kito, and Mithra M. Moezzi."Evaluation of Public Service Electric & Gas Company's Standard Offer Program." (1995) 169.

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).

Stoft, Steven, Joseph H Eto, and M. Suzie Kito."DSM Shareholder Incentives: Current Designs and Economic Theory." (1995).