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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

Gorman, Will, Galen L Barbose, Sunhee Baik, Cesca Miller, and Juan Pablo Carvallo."Bill Savings vs. Backup Power: Evaluating operational tradeoffs for home solar+storage systems." (2024).

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Bruce Biewald, Devi Glick, and Shelly Kwok."Clean Energy Innovator Fellows Training: Integrated Resource Planning." (2024).

Kim, James Hyungkwan, Dev Millstein, Ryan H Wiser, and Julie Mulvaney Kemp."Renewable-Battery Hybrid Power Plants in Congested Electricity Markets: Implications for Plant Configuration."Renewable Energy 232 (2024). DOI

Schwartz, Lisa C."A Framework for Integrated Distribution System Planning." (2024).

Schwartz, Lisa C, Myles T Collins, Tim Woolf, and Courtney Lane."Best Practices Guide for Benefit-Cost Analysis of Managed EV Charging." (2024).

Relf, Grace, Peter Cappers, Ronny Sandoval, and Myles T Collins."Clean Energy Innovator Fellows Training: Electricity Regulation Basics." (2024).

Krishnamoorthy, Gayathri, Tom Wall, Myles T Collins, and Josh A Schellenberg."Clean Energy Innovator Fellows Training: Grid Resilience Planning." (2024).

Gorman, Will, Joseph Rand, Nick Manderlink, Anna Cheyette, Mark Bolinger, Joachim Seel, Seongeun Jeong, and Ryan H Wiser."Hybrid Power Plants: Status of Operating and Proposed Plants, 2024 Edition." (2024).

Pereira, Guillermo, and Lisa C Schwartz."Integrated Distribution System Planning." (2024).

Kahrl, Fredrich, Jennie Jorgenson, Lawryn Kiboma, James Hyungkwan Kim, Dev Millstein, Brian Sergi, and Natalie Mims Frick."Solar and Storage Integration in the Southeastern United States: Economics, Reliability, and Operations." (2024).

Pereira, Guillermo, Cynthia Regnier, Lazlo Paul, Marco Pritoni, and Cecilia Johnson."Bringing demand flexibility to market: Insight on emerging business models from U.S. projects." (2024).

Miller, Cesca, Andrew Satchwell, and Jenya Kahn-Lang."The Customer Bill Impacts of Efficient Building Electrification."2024 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2024).

Fujita, K Sydny, Zach Ancona, Louisa Kramer, James Diffendorfer, Mary Straka, Tandie E Gautreau, Dana Robson, Ben Hoen, and Chris Garrity."US Large-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Database Files." (2024).

Kahrl, Fritz, and Jiang Lin."Changing economics of China’s power system suggest that batteries and renewables may be a lower cost way to meet peak demand growth than coal."iScience 27.2 (2024). DOI

Bessette, Douglas L, Ben Hoen, Joseph Rand, Karl Hoesch, Jacob White, Sarah B Mills, and Robi Nilson."Good fences make good neighbors: Stakeholder perspectives on the local benefits and burdens of large-scale solar energy development in the United States."Energy Research & Social Science 108 (2024). DOI

Morash, Sean."Charging Ahead: Grid Planning for Vehicle Electrification." (2024).

Nilson, Robi, Ben Hoen, and Joseph Rand."Survey of Utility-Scale Wind and Solar Developers Report." (2024).

Simley, Eric, Dev Millstein, Seongeun Jeong, and Paul Fleming."The value of wake steering wind farm flow control in US energy markets."Wind Energy Science 9.1 (2024). DOI

2023

Millstein, Dev, Seongeun Jeong, Amos Ancell, and Ryan H Wiser."A database of hourly wind speed and modeled generation for US wind plants based on three meteorological models."Scientific Data 10 (2023). DOI

Brunner, Eric, Ben Hoen, Joseph Rand, and David Schwegman."Commercial Wind Turbines and Residential Home Values: New Evidence from the Universe of Land-Based Wind Projects in the United States."Energy Policy (2023). DOI

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

Wang, Wenjun, Nina Khanna, Xu Liu, and Jiang Lin."Measurement, reporting and Verification (MRV) of non-CO2 greenhouse gases: International Best Practices and Suggestions for China." (2023).

Forrester, Sydney, Galen L Barbose, Eric O'Shaughnessy, Naïm R Darghouth, and Cristina Crespo Montañés."Residential Solar-Adopter Income and Demographic Trends: 2023 Update." (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).