Research Themes +
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.
Strategic Initiatives +
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.

Publications by Research Area

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Publications: Grid Operations Infrastructure & Valuation

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2023

Seel, Joachim, Joseph Rand, Will Gorman, Dev Millstein, Ryan H. Wiser, Will Cotton, Katherine Fisher, Olivia Kuykendall, Ari Weissfeld, and Kevin Porter."Interconnection Cost Analysis in the PJM Territory." (2023).

2022

Gorman, Will, Galen L. Barbose, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Sunhee Baik, Chandler 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).

Bolinger, Mark, Will Gorman, Joseph Rand, Seongeun Jeong, Ryan H. Wiser, Joachim Seel, and Cody Warner."Hybrid Power Plants: Status of Operating and Proposed Plants, 2022 Edition." (2022).

Forrester, Sydney, Galen L. Barbose, and Chandler Miller."Private vs. public value of U.S. residential battery storage operated for solar self-consumption."iScience 25.8 (2022). DOI

Rand, Joseph, Ryan H. Wiser, Will Gorman, Dev Millstein, Joachim Seel, Seongeun Jeong, and Dana Robson."Queued Up: Characteristics of Power Plants Seeking Transmission Interconnection As of the End of 2021." (2022).

Wang, Yuhan, Dev Millstein, Andrew D. Mills, Seongeun Jeong, and Amos Ancell."The cost of day-ahead solar forecasting errors in the United States."Solar Energy 231 (2022) 846-856. DOI

Millstein, Dev, Ryan H. Wiser, Will Gorman, Seongeun Jeong, James Hyungkwan Kim, and Amos Ancell."Empirical Estimates of Transmission Value using Locational Marginal Prices." (2022).

2021

Kim, James Hyungkwan, Andrew D. Mills, Ryan H. Wiser, Mark Bolinger, Will Gorman, Cristina Crespo Montañés, and Eric O'Shaughnessy."Project developer options to enhance the value of solar electricity as solar and storage penetrations increase."Applied Energy 304 (2021). DOI

Seel, Joachim, and Andrew D. Mills."Integrating Cambium Marginal Costs into Electric Sector Decisions: Opportunities to Integrate Cambium Marginal Cost Data into Berkeley Lab Analysis and Technical Assistance." (2021).

Montañés, Cristina Crespo, Will Gorman, Andrew D. Mills, and James Hyungkwan Kim."Keep it short: Exploring the impacts of configuration choices on the recent economics of solar-plus-battery and wind-plus-battery hybrid energy plants." (2021). DOI

Seel, Joachim, Dev Millstein, Andrew D. Mills, Mark Bolinger, and Ryan H. Wiser."Plentiful electricity turns wholesale prices negative."Advances in Applied Energy 4 (2021). DOI

Seel, Joachim, Cody Warner, and Andrew D. Mills."Influence of Business Models on PV-Battery Dispatch Decisions and Market Value."Advances in Applied Energy (2021). DOI

Mills, Andrew D., Joachim Seel, Dev Millstein, James Hyungkwan Kim, Seongeun Jeong, Cody Warner, and Will Gorman."Solar-to-Grid: Trends in System Impacts, Reliability, and Market Value in the United States with Data Through 2020." (2021).

Kahrl, Fredrich, James Hyungkwan Kim, Andrew D. Mills, Ryan H. Wiser, Cristina Crespo Montañés, and Will Gorman."Variable Renewable Energy Participation in U.S. Ancillary Services Markets: Economic Evaluation and Key Issues." (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

Millstein, Dev, Ryan H. Wiser, Andrew D. Mills, Mark Bolinger, Joachim Seel, and Seongeun Jeong."Solar and wind grid system value in the United States: The effect of transmission congestion, generation profiles, and curtailment."Joule (2021). DOI

Gorman, Will, Cristina Crespo Montañés, Andrew D. Mills, James Hyungkwan Kim, Dev Millstein, and Ryan H. Wiser."Are coupled renewable-battery power plants more valuable than independently sited installations?."Energy Economics 107 (2021). DOI

Rand, Joseph, Mark Bolinger, Ryan H. Wiser, Seongeun Jeong, and Bentham Paulos."Queued Up: Characteristics of Power Plants Seeking Transmission Interconnection As of the End of 2020." (2021).

Mills, Andrew D., Joachim Seel, Dev Millstein, James Hyungkwan Kim, Mark Bolinger, Will Gorman, Yuhan Wang, Seongeun Jeong, and Ryan H. Wiser."Solar-to-Grid: Trends in System Impacts, Reliability, and Market Value in the United States with Data Through 2019." (2021).

2020

Millstein, Dev."Cleaning the grid."Nature Sustainability (2020). DOI

Mills, Andrew D., Ryan H. Wiser, Dev Millstein, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Will Gorman, Joachim Seel, and Seongeun Jeong."The impact of wind, solar, and other factors on the decline in wholesale power prices in the United States."Applied Energy (2020). DOI

Millstein, Dev, Patrick Dobson, and Seongeun Jeong."The Potential to Improve the Value of U.S. Geothermal Electricity Generation Through Flexible Operations."Journal of Energy Resources Technology 413 (2020). DOI

Mills, Andrew D., and Pía Rodriguez."A simple and fast algorithm for estimating the capacity credit of solar and storage."Energy 210 (2020). DOI

Dobson, Patrick, Dipankar Dwivedi, Dev Millstein, Nandini Krishnaswamy, Julio Garcia, and Mariam Kiran."Analysis of curtailment at The Geysers geothermal Field, California."Geothermics 87 (2020) 101871. DOI

Wiser, Ryan H., Dev Millstein, Mark Bolinger, Seongeun Jeong, and Andrew D. Mills."The hidden value of large-rotor, tall-tower wind turbines in the United States."Wind Engineering (2020). DOI

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