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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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2022

Murthy, Samanvitha, Brian F Gerke, Sarah Josephine Smith, Aditya Khandekar, Cong Zhang, Richard E Brown, and Mary Ann Piette."A multi-level load shape clustering and disaggregation approach to characterize patterns of energy consumption behavior."2022 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022).

Satchwell, Andrew, Brady Cowiestoll, Elaine Hale, Brian F Gerke, Paige Jadun, Cong Zhang, and Samanvitha Murthy."Assessing the Interactive Impacts of Energy Efficiency and Demand Response on Power System Costs and Emissions." (2022).

Bistline, John, Nikit Abhyankar, Geoffrey Blanford, Leon Clarke, Rachel Fakhry, Haewon McJeon, John Reilly, Christopher Roney, Tom Wilson, Mei Yuan, and Alicia Zhao."Actions for reducing US emissions at least 50% by 2030."Science 376.6596 (2022) 922 - 924. DOI

De Martini, Paul, Alan Cooke, Fredrich Kahrl, Lavelle Freeman, Juan Martinez, Elton Prifti, Kim Cullen, Jody Londo, Tim Woolf, Rebecca O'Neil, Dan Boff, Xiangqi Zhu, Seemita Pal, Ron Melton, Lisa C Schwartz, Natalie Mims Frick, and Juliet Homer."New England PUCs training on electricity system planning." (2022).

Khandekar, Aditya, Shruti M Deorah, and Nikit Abhyankar."Feasibility and Impact of Biomass and Renewable Energy Hybrid Systems." (2022).

Schwartz, Lisa C."Integrated distribution planning overview." (2022).

Karali, Nihan, Nikit Abhyankar, and Shruti M Deorah."Electricity demand in South Asia – data gaps and pathways for research and modeling." (2022).

2021

Liu, Zhu, Zhu Deng, Gang He, Hailin Wang, Xiang Zhang, Jiang Lin, Ye Qi, and Xi Liang."Challenges and opportunities for carbon neutrality in China."Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 3 (2021) 141-155.

Abhyankar, Nikit, Shruti M Deorah, and Amol A Phadke."Least-Cost Pathway for India’s Power System Investments through 2030." (2021).

Kahrl, Fredrich, Shruti M Deorah, Lakshmi Alagappan, Paul M Sotkiewicz, and Nikit Abhyankar."Policy and Regulatory Recommendations to Support a Least-Cost Pathway for India’s Power Sector." (2021).

Abhyankar, Nikit, Priyanka Mohanty, and Amol A Phadke."Illustrative Strategies for the United States to Achieve 50% Emissions Reduction by 2030." (2021).

Woolf, Tim, Ben Havumaki, Divita Bhandari, Melissa Whited, and Lisa C Schwartz."Benefit-Cost Analysis for Utility-Facing Grid Modernization Investments: Trends, Challenges, and Considerations." (2021).

Dalton, Patrick, Mary Ann Piette, Paul De Martini, Fritz Kahrl, Jeremy Twitchell, and Andrew D Mills."Western States Training Webinars on Integrated Distribution System Planning." (2021).

Kahrl, Fredrich, Jiang Lin, Xu Liu, and Junfeng Hu."Sunsetting coal power in China."iScience 24.9 (2021) 102939. DOI

2020

Schneider, Kevin, Emma Stuart, Patrick Dalton, Rois Langner, Jeffrey Taft, Paul De Martini, Debra Lew, Fritz Kahrl, Lisa C Schwartz, Juliet Homer, Cesca Miller, Matt Leach, Natalie Mims Frick, Jeremy Twitchell, Andrew D Mills, Doug Black, Jason S MacDonald, and Michael Kintner-Meyer."Integrated Distribution System Planning training for the Midwest/MISO region." (2020).

Schwartz, Lisa C."Energy System Planning for a Modern Electric Grid." (2020).

Schwartz, Lisa C."Distribution Planning Regulatory Practices in Other States." (2020).

Zhou, Nan, Hongyou Lu, Nina Khanna, Xu Liu, David Fridley, Lynn K Price, Wei Feng, Jiang Lin, Carolyn Szum, and Chao Ding."China Energy Outlook: Understanding China’s Energy and Emissions Trends." (2020).

He, Gang, Jiang Lin, Froylan Sifuentes, Xu Liu, Nikit Abhyankar, and Amol A Phadke."Rapid cost decrease of renewable energy and storage offers an opportunity to accelerate the decarbonization of China’s power system." (2020).

He, Gang, Jiang Lin, Froylan Sifuentes, Xu Liu, Nikit Abhyankar, and Amol A Phadke."Rapid cost decrease of renewable energy and storage offers an opportunity to accelerate the decarbonization of China’s power system." (2020).

De Martini, Paul, Kevin Schneider, Emma M Stewart, Barry Mather, Michael Coddington, Joseph H Eto, Benjamin Sigrin, Natalie Mims Frick, Joe Paladino, Lavelle Freeman, Debra Lew, Fritz Kahrl, and Lisa C Schwartz."Southeast Regional Training on Distribution Systems & Planning." (2020).

Phadke, Amol A, Nikit Abhyankar, Ranjit Deshmukh, Julia Szinai, and Anand R Gopal."Cost-effective decarbonization of California’s power sector by 2030 with the aid of battery storage." (2020).

2019

Eto, Joseph H, and Giulia Gallo."Interregional Transmission Coordination: A review of practices following FERC Order Nos. 890 and 1000." (2019).

Sheppard, Colin, Julia Szinai, Nikit Abhyankar, and Anand R Gopal."Grid Impacts of Electric Vehicles and Managed Charging in California." (2019).

Abhyankar, Nikit, Jiang Lin, Xu Liu, and Froylan Sifuentes."Economic and environmental benefits of market-based power-system reform in China: provincial versus regional grid optimization." (2019).