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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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2023

Heleno, Miguel, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Alan Valenzuela, Greg Leventis, Cesca Miller, and Jeff Deason."Distribution Grid Impacts of Community Solar." (2023).

Gorman, Will, Galen L. Barbose, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Sunhee Baik, Cesca Miller, Philip White, and Marlena Prapost."County-level assessment of behind-the-meter solar and storage to mitigate long duration power interruptions for residential customers."Applied Energy 342 (2023). DOI

2022

Gorman, Will, Galen L. Barbose, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Sunhee Baik, Cesca Miller, Philip White, and Marlena Prapost."Evaluating the Capabilities of Behind-the-Meter Solar-plus-Storage for Providing Backup Power during Long-Duration Power Interruptions." (2022).

McLaren, Joyce, Sherin Abraham, Naïm R. Darghouth, and Sydney Forrester."Use of Operating Agreements and Energy Storage to Reduce Photovoltaic Interconnection Costs: Technical and Economic Analysis." (2022).

Gill, Carrie, Shauna Beland, Ryan Constable, Tim Roughan, Caitlin Broderick, Stephen Lasher, Joyce McLaren, Sherin Abraham, Anthony Teixeria, Naïm R. Darghouth, and Sydney Forrester."Use of Operating Agreements and Energy Storage to Reduce Photovoltaic Interconnection Costs: Conceptual Framework." (2022).

McDermott, Thomas E., Killian McKenna, Miguel Heleno, Bilal Ahmad Bhatti, Michael Emmanuel, and Sydney Forrester."Distribution System Research Roadmap." (2022). DOI

2021

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Stephanie Bieler, Myles T. Collins, Joscha Mueller, Christoph Gehbauer, Douglas J. Gotham, and Peter H. Larsen."A framework to measure the technical, economic, and rate impacts of distributed solar, electric vehicles, and storage."Applied Energy 297 (2021). DOI

2020

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Nan Zhang, Sean Murphy, Benjamin Leibowicz, and Peter H. Larsen."The economic value of a centralized approach to distributed resource investment and operation."Applied Energy 269 (2020). DOI

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Myles T. Collins, Stephanie Bieler, Joscha Mueller, Christoph Gehbauer, and Peter H. Larsen."Indiana 21st Century Energy Policy: Emerging Technologies on the Electricity Distribution System." (2020).

2019

Szinai, Julia, Colin Sheppard, Nikit Abhyankar, and Anand R. Gopal."Reduced grid operating costs and renewable energy curtailment with electric vehicle charge management."Energy Policy (2019) 111051. DOI

Mills, Andrew D., and Pía Rodriguez."Drivers of the Resource Adequacy Contribution of Solar and Storage for Florida Municipal Utilities." (2019).

2016

Mills, Andrew D., Galen L. Barbose, Joachim Seel, Changgui Dong, Trieu Mai, Ben Sigrin, and Jarett Zuboy."Planning for a Distributed Disruption: Innovative Practices for Incorporating Distributed Solar into Utility Planning." (2016).

2015

Munoz, Francisco D., and Andrew D. Mills."Endogenous Assessment of the Capacity Value of Solar PV in Generation Investment Planning Studies."IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy 6.4 (2015). DOI

2014

Mills, Andrew D., Audun Botterud, Jing Wu, Zhi Zhou, Bri-Mathias Hodge, and Mike Heaney."Integrating Solar PV in Utility System Operations." (2014).

2013

Deshmukh, Ranjit, Juan Pablo Carvallo, and Ashwin Gambhir."Sustainable Development of Renewable Energy Mini-grids for Energy Access: A Framework for Policy Design." (2013).

2010

Mills, Andrew D., and Ryan H. Wiser."Implications of Wide-Area Geographic Diversity for Short- Term Variability of Solar Power." (2010) 48.

1997

Pagliano, Lorenzo, Joseph H Eto, and Roberto Caponio."The Restructuring of the Italian Electricity Sector: Proposals for the Inclusion of Objectives for Increased Energy Efficiency and Renewables Exploitation."European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ECEEE) 1997 Summer Study (1997).