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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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About Us +
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

Kahrl, Fredrich, Jennie Jorgenson, James Hyungkwan Kim, Lawryn Kiboma, Dev Millstein, Natalie Mims Frick, and Brian Sergi."Solar and Wind Forecast Error Reserve Sharing in a Multi-Utility Region." (2024).

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

Millstein, Dev, Julie Mulvaney Kemp, Will Gorman, and Ryan H Wiser."Transmission value in 2023: Market data shows the value of transmission remained high in certain locations despite overall low wholesale electricity prices." (2024).

Yang, Haozhe, Qian Luo, Gang He, Jiang Lin, Jeremiah X Johnson, Fernando Garcia-Menendez, Olivier Deschenes, Ana Mileva, and Ranjit Deshmukh."Regional disparities in health and employment outcomes of China's transition to a low-carbon electricity system."Environmental Research: Energy 1 (2024). DOI

Frick, Natalie Mims, Lisa C Schwartz, Julieta Giraldez, Cody Davis, Samir Succar, Ronny Sandoval, Gayathri Krishnamoothy, Tom Wall, Josh A Schellenberg, Peter H Larsen, and Neil Weisenfeld."Regional Training: Planning for Distribution Systems, Distributed Energy Resources, and Resilience." (2024).

Schwartz, Lisa C, Natalie Mims Frick, Sean Murphy, Guillermo Pereira, Jessica Shipley, Josh A Schellenberg, and Alisha Fernandez."State Requirements for Electric Distribution System Planning." (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

Peng, Liqun, Gang He, and Jiang Lin."Role of Pumped Hydro Storage in China’s Power System Transition." (2024).

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

Frick, Natalie Mims, Lisa C Schwartz, Julieta Giraldez, Cody Davis, Samir Succar, Ronny Sandoval, Sara Peterson, Tom Wall, Stephen Torres, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Nichole L Hanus, and Josh A Schellenberg."Western Regional Training: Planning for Distribution Systems, Distributed Energy Resources, and Resilience." (2024).

2023

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

De Martini, Paul, and Lisa C Schwartz."Distribution System Evolution." (2023).

Schwartz, Lisa C, Natalie Mims Frick, Julieta Giraldez, Cody Davis, Samir Succar, Ronny Sandoval, Eliza Hotchkiss, Josh A Schellenberg, Tom Wall, Peter H Larsen, Nichole L Hanus, and Jane Frantz."Eastern Regional Training: Planning for Distribution Systems, Distributed Energy Resources, and Resilience." (2023).

Murphy, Sean, Lisa C Schwartz, Catherine Reed, Marion Gold, and Kirsten Verclas."State Energy Offices’ Engagement in Electric Distribution Planning to Meet State Policy Goals." (2023).

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, and Lisa C Schwartz."The use of price-based demand response as a resource in electricity system planning." (2023).

Abhyankar, Nikit, Umed Paliwal, Michael O’Boyle, Michelle Solomon, Jeremy Fisher, and Amol A Phadke."A new era for rural electric cooperatives: New clean energy investments, supported by federal incentives, will reduce rates, emissions, and reliance on outside power."The Electricity Journal 36.8 (2023). DOI

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

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

Schwartz, Lisa C, Hanna Terwilliger, Joy Wang, and Sean Morash."Integrated Distribution System Planning Workshop, New Mexico PRC." (2023).

Abhyankar, Nikit, Priyanka Mohanty, Shruti M Deorah, Nihan Karali, Umed Paliwal, Jessica Kersey, and Amol A Phadke."India’s path towards energy independence and a clean future: Harnessing India's renewable edge for cost-effective energy independence by 2047."The Electricity Journal 36.5 (2023). DOI

Schwartz, Lisa C."Distribution and Grid Modernization Planning to Accelerate Deployment of Distributed Energy Resources." (2023).

Schwartz, Lisa C."State Approaches for Distribution System Planning, including Grid Modernization." (2023).

Relf, Grace, Joy Wang, Fredrich Kahrl, Paul De Martini, Caitlyn Edmundson, Rob Peterson, Sean Morash, Brad Borum, Tim Woolf, Jennifer Yoshimura, Sarah Hall, Tera Dornfeld, Josh L Bode, Megan Gilman, Robert Peterson, Lisa C Schwartz, James Lester, and Nick Sayen."PUC Peer-Sharing Webinars on Integrated Distribution System Planning." (2023).

2022

Lin, Jiang, Nina Khanna, Xu Liu, Wenjun Wang, Jessica Gordon, and Fan Dai."Opportunities to tackle short-lived climate pollutants and other greenhouse gases for China."Science of The Total Environment 842 (2022). DOI