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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) 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

Pigman, Margaret, Dev Millstein, Natalie Mims Frick, Wanya Chan, and William W Delp."Consumer Impacts of A Clean Energy Transition: Climate and health benefits from electrifying residential space and water heating." (2024).

Murphy, Sean, Margaret Pigman, and Natalie Mims Frick."Managing changes in peak demand from building and transportation electrification with energy efficiency." (2024).

2023

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

Langevin, Jared, Aven Satre-Meloy, Andrew Satchwell, Ryan Hledik, Julia Olszewski, Kate Peters, and Handi Chandra-Putra."Demand-side solutions in the U.S. building sector could achieve deep emissions reductions and avoid over $100 billion in power sector costs."One Earth 6.8 (2023) 1005-2031. DOI

Murphy, Sean, and Natalie Mims Frick."Estimating the Drivers of the Cost of Saved Electricity in Utility Customer-Funded Energy Efficiency Programs."Energies 16.5 (2023). DOI

2022

Pigman, Margaret, Natalie Mims Frick, Eric Wilson, Andrew Parker, and Elaina Present."End-Use Load Profiles for the U.S. Building Stock: Practical Guidance on Accessing and Using the Data." (2022).

Frick, Natalie Mims, Andrew Satchwell, and Miguel Heleno."Quantifying Locational Net Benefits of DER for Distribution Systems." (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).

Nemtzow, David, Cynthia Regnier, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Natalie Mims Frick, and Jason S MacDonald."If One GEB is Good, a Community of GEBs is Better."2022 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022).

Satchwell, Andrew, and Ryan Hledik."Making Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings a “Win” for Both Customers and Utilities."2022 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022).

Satchwell, Andrew, Ryan Hledik, Oleksandr Kuzura, Oluwatobi Adekanye, and Chioke B Harris."Valuing Residential Energy Efficiency: Analysis for a Prototypical Southeastern Utility." (2022).

Gerke, Brian F, Cong Zhang, Samanvitha Murthy, Andrew Satchwell, Elaina Present, Henry Horsey, Eric Wilson, Andrew Parker, Andrew Speake, Rajendra Adhikari, and Mary Ann Piette."Load-driven interactions between energy efficiency and demand response on regional grid scales."Advances in Applied Energy 6 (2022). DOI

Murthy, Samanvitha, Andrew Satchwell, and Brian F Gerke."Metrics to describe changes in the power system need for demand response resources."Smart Energy 6 (2022). DOI

Frick, Natalie Mims, Juan Pablo Carvallo, and Margaret Pigman."Time-Sensitive Value Calculator." (2022).

2021

Frick, Natalie Mims, Juan Pablo Carvallo, and Lisa C Schwartz."Quantifying grid reliability and resilience impacts of energy efficiency: Examples and opportunities." (2021).

Satchwell, Andrew."Increasing the Economic Potential of Residential Energy Efficiency as a Utility Grid Resource." (2021).

Murphy, Sean, Jeff Deason, and Andrew Satchwell."Timed to save: the added value of accounting for hourly incidence of electricity savings from residential space-conditioning measures."Energy Efficiency (2021). DOI

Schiller, Steven R."Demand Side Energy Management." (2021).

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

Frick, Natalie Mims, and Elaina Present."End-Use Load Profiles update: CEE 2021 Summer Program Meeting." (2021).

Satchwell, Andrew, Mary Ann Piette, Aditya Khandekar, Jessica Granderson, Natalie Mims Frick, Ryan Hledik, Ahmad Faruqui, Long Lam, Stephanie Ross, Jesse Cohen, Kitty Wang, Daniela Urigwe, Dan Delurey, Monica Neukomm, and David Nemtzow."A National Roadmap for Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings." (2021).

Frick, Natalie Mims, Elaina Present, Eric Wilson, Anthony Fontanini, Andrew Parker, and Janet Reyna."End-Use Load Profiles for the U.S. Building Stock - Technical Advisory Group presentations." (2021).

Frick, Natalie Mims, Snuller Price, Lisa C Schwartz, Nichole L Hanus, and Ben Shapiro."Locational Value of Distributed Energy Resources." (2021).

Frick, Natalie Mims, Tom Eckman, Greg Leventis, and Alan H Sanstad."Methods to Incorporate Energy Efficiency in Electricity System Planning and Markets." (2021).