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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

Deason, Jeff, Sean Murphy, and Greg Leventis."Participant outcomes in residential Pay As You Save® programs." (2024).

Parmenter, Kelly, Greg Leventis, and Jeff Deason."Designing and Executing Measurement and Verification Standards for C-PACE Programs: Lessons Learned from Leading C-PACE Programs." (2024).

Pitkin, Jeff, Jeff Deason, and Greg Leventis."Leveraging State Clean Water Revolving Funds to Expand Clean Energy Financing." (2024).

2023

Shackelford, Jordan, Alastair Robinson, Cynthia Regnier, and Sang Hoon Lee."Getting Beyond Widgets: Performance of Efficient Indoor Air Quality System Retrofit Packages for Schools." (2023). DOI

Leventis, Greg, and Jeff Deason."Commercial PACE Project Origination: Leverage Points for Growing the Project Pipeline." (2023).

Levinson, Ronnen M, Edward A Arens, Emmanuel Bozonnet, Vincenzo Corrado, Haley E Gilbert, Peter Holzer, Pierre Jaboyedoff, Amanda Krelling, Anaïs Machard, Wendy Miller, Mamak P.Tootkaboni, Stephen E Selkowitz, and Hui Zhang."Policy Recommendations from IEA EBC Annex 80: Resilient Cooling of Buildings." (2023). DOI

Coleman, Philip, and Christine Walker."Recommended vs. Actual Escalation Rates For ESPCs: Is the Guidance Good?."International Journal of Energy Management 5.1 (2023).

Levinson, Ronnen M, Mansour Alhazmi, Jackson Becce, Andre Desjarlais, Haley E Gilbert, Greg Kats, Jacob Miller, Emily Morin, David J Sailor, and Sarah Schneider."United States Cool Surfaces Deployment Plan." (2023). DOI

2022

Deason, Jeff, Sean Murphy, and Greg Leventis."Customer outcomes in Pay-As-You-Save programs."2022 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022).

Pigman, Margaret, Jeff Deason, Nancy Wallace, and Paulo Issler."How Does Home Energy Score Affect Home Value and Mortgage Performance?."2022 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022).

Deason, Jeff, Greg Leventis, and Sean Murphy."Long-Term Performance of Energy Efficiency Loan Portfolios." (2022).

Deason, Jeff, Sean Murphy, and Charles A Goldman."Tracking the PACE of household energy usage: Energy usage impacts of projects financed through Property Assessed Clean Energy programs in California." (2022).

2021

Leventis, Greg, and Jeff Deason."Deferred Payment Loans for Energy Efficiency: Case Study of a Low- and Moderate-Income Home Improvement Financing Model and Potential Application to Energy Efficiency Projects." (2021).

Deason, Jeff, Sean Murphy, and Charles A Goldman."Empirical Estimation of the Energy Impacts of Projects Installed through Residential Property Assessed Clean Energy Financing Programs in California."Energies 14.23 (2021). DOI

Leventis, Greg, and Jeff Deason."Practices for Demonstrating Energy Savings from Commercial PACE Projects." (2021).

Frick, Natalie Mims, Sean Murphy, Cesca Miller, and Margaret Pigman."Still the One: Efficiency Remains a Cost-Effective Electricity Resource." (2021).

Murphy, Sean, and Jeff Deason."Energy efficiency lifetimes: How reported savings of electric and gas energy efficiency programs change over time." (2021).

Deason, Jeff, Greg Leventis, and Sean Murphy."Performance of solar leasing for low- and middle-income customers in Connecticut." (2021).

2020

Earni, Shankar, and Peter L Therkelsen."Non-routine adjustments – towards standardizing M&V approach for quantifying the effects of static factors."eceee Industrial Efficiency 2020 - DECARBONISE INDUSTRY! (2020). DOI

Earni, Shankar, Philip Coleman, Elizabeth Stuart, and Peter H Larsen."eProject Builder: Promoting wider adoption of energy savings performance contracts through standardization and transparency."energise 2020 ENERGY INNOVATION FOR A SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY (2020) 300-308.

Coleman, Philip, Shankar Earni, Bob Slattery, and Christine Walker."M&V in ESPC: The U.S. Federal Experience and Implications for Developing ESPC Markets."energise 2020 ENERGY INNOVATION FOR A SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY (2020) 216-221.

Méndez, Juana Isabel, Pedro Ponce, Omar Mata, Alan K Meier, Therese Peffer, Arturo Molina, and Marlene Aguilar."Empower saving energy into smart homes using a gamification structure by social products."2020 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE)2020 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE) (2020). DOI

Gehbauer, Christoph, David Blum, Taoning Wang, and Eleanor S Lee."Integrated Dynamic Facade Control with an Agent-based Architecture for Commercial Buildings." (2020).

Issler, Paulo, Paul A Mathew, and Nancy Wallace."The Pricing Risk of Energy Use Intensity for Office and Multifamily Mortgages." (2020). DOI

2019

Taylor, Margaret, K Sydny Fujita, Jingjing Zhang, Mustapha Harb, James Tamerius, Michelle Jones, and Sarah K Price."Explaining jurisdictional compliance with California’s top-down streamlined solar permitting law (AB 2188)." (2019). DOI