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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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2018

Seel, Joachim, Andrew D. Mills, and Ryan H. Wiser."Impacts of High Variable Renewable Energy Futures on Wholesale Electricity Prices, and on Electric-Sector Decision Making." (2018).

2017

Wiser, Ryan H., Andrew D. Mills, Joachim Seel, Todd Levin, and Audun Botterud."Impacts of Variable Renewable Energy on Bulk Power System Assets, Pricing, and Costs." (2017).

Glazer, Craig, Jay Morrison, Paul Breakman, Allison Clements, National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates, and Lisa C. Schwartz."The Future of Centrally-Organized Wholesale Electricity Markets."Future Electric Utility Regulation Report Series FEUR Report No. 7 (2017).

2016

Dennis, Jeffery S., Suedeen G. Kelly, Robert R. Nordhaus, and Douglas W. Smith."Federal/State Jurisdictional Split: Implications for Emerging Electricity Technologies." (2016).

2014

Fisher, Emily, and Joseph H Eto."Congestion Measures for Organized Markets in the U.S.."IEEE 47th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS) (2014). DOI

2013

Mills, Andrew D., and Ryan H. Wiser."Changes in the economic value of wind energy and flexible resources at increasing penetration levels in the Rocky Mountain Power Area."Wind Energy 17.11 (2013) 1711 - 1726. DOI

Cappers, Peter, Jason S. MacDonald, Charles A. Goldman, and Ookie Ma."An assessment of market and policy barriers for demand response providing ancillary services in U.S. electricity markets."Energy Policy 62 (2013) 1031-1039. DOI

Mills, Andrew D., and Ryan H. Wiser."Changes in the Economic Value of Variable Generation at High Penetration Levels: A Pilot Case Study of California."18th Annual POWER Conference on Energy Research and Policy (2013).

Cappers, Peter, Jason S. MacDonald, and Charles A. Goldman."Market and Policy Barriers for Demand Response Providing Ancillary Services in U.S. Markets." (2013).

2009

Budhraja, Vikram S., Fred Mobasheri, John Ballance, Jim Dyer, Alison Silverstein, and Joseph H Eto."Improving Electricity Resource-Planning Processes by Considering the Strategic Benefits of Transmission."The Electricity Journal 22.2 (2009). DOI

2008

Barmack, Matthew, Edward P Kahn, Susan Tierney, and Charles A. Goldman."Econometric models of power prices: An approach to market monitoring in the Western US."Utilities Policy 16.4 (2008) 307-320. DOI

2007

Boisvert, Richard, Peter Cappers, Charles A. Goldman, and Bernard Neenan."Customer Response to RTP in Competitive Markets: A Study of Niagara Mohawk's Standard Offer Tariff."The Energy Journal (2007) 53-74.

2006

Eto, Joseph H, Douglas R. Hale, and Bernard Lesieutre."Toward More Comprehensive Assessments of FERC Electricity Restructuring Policies: A Review of Recent Benefit-Cost Studies of RTOs."The Electricity Journal 19.10 (2006) 50-62. DOI

Barmack, Matthew, Edward P Kahn, Susan Tierney, and Charles A. Goldman."A Regional Approach to Market Monitoring in the West." (2006) 85.

Barbose, Galen L., Ranjit Bharvirkar, Charles A. Goldman, Nicole C. Hopper, and Bernard Neenan."Killing Two Birds with One Stone: Can Real-Time Pricing Support Retail Competition and Demand Response?." (2006) 14.

U.S.-Canada Power System Outage Task Force, , U.S. Department of Energy, and Joseph H Eto."Recommendation 12: The Relationship between Competitive Power Markets and Grid Reliability."U.S-Canada Power System Outage Task Force (2006).

Eto, Joseph H."Maintain, Enhance, and Improve Reliability of California’s Electric System under Restructuring." (2006).

Barbose, Galen L., Ranjit Bharvirkar, Charles A. Goldman, Nicole C. Hopper, and Bernard Neenan."Killing Two Birds with One Stone: Can Real-Time Pricing Support Retail Competition and Demand Response?."2006 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2006).

2005

Eto, Joseph H, Bernard Lesieutre, and Douglas R. Hale."A Review of Recent RTO Benefit-Cost Studies: Toward More Comprehensive Assessments of FERC Electricity Restructuring Policies." (2005) 61.

Eto, Joseph H."The Value of Economic Dispatch: A Report to Congress Pursuant to Section 1234 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005." (2005).

2004

Lesieutre, Bernard, Emily S. Bartholomew, Joseph H Eto, Douglas R. Hale, and Thanh Luong."The Potential Impacts of a Competitive Wholesale Market in the Midwest: A Preliminary Examination of Centralized Dispatch." (2004) 75.

Lesieutre, Bernard, and Joseph H Eto."When a Rose Is Not a Rose: A Review of Recent Estimates of Congestion Costs."The Electricity Journal 17.4 (2004). DOI

Goldman, Charles A., Bernard Lesieutre, and Emily S. Bartholomew."A Review of Market Monitoring Activities at U.S. Independent System Operators." (2004) 41.

2003

Lesieutre, Bernard."Congestions Costs in Electricity Markets."Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium November 20-22, 2003 (2003).

Bartholomew, Emily S., Afzal S. Siddiqui, Chris Marnay, and Shmuel S. Oren."The New York Transmission Congestion Contract Market: Is It Truly Working Efficiently?."The Electricity Journal 16.9 (2003) 14-24. DOI