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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

Nelson, Ron, Bradley Cebulko, Thomas Van Hentenryck, Erin Mettler, and Natalie Mims Frick."A Framework for Non-Pipeline Alternatives Analysis and Review of Existing Approaches." (2023).

Frick, Natalie Mims."Considering the time and locational value of efficiency in electricity planning." (2023).

Wang, Zhaohua, Hao Li, Bin Zhang, Bo Wang, Hao Li, Xin Tian, Jiang Lin, and Wei Feng."Unequal residential heating burden caused by combined heat and power phase-out under climate goals."Nature Energy (2023). DOI

2022

Ingram, Michael, David Narang, Xiangkun Li, Caitlin Marquis, Debbie Lew, and Sydney Forrester."DER Interconnection Workshop." (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).

Schiller, Steven R., Jeff Deason, Greg Leventis, Lisa C. Schwartz, and Kelly Parmenter."The Future of Energy Efficiency for U.S. Buildings - Drivers and Market Scenarios." (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).

Schwartz, Lisa C., David Nemtzow, and Natalie Mims Frick."How to Build a Connected Community: Policies to Promote Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings and Demand Flexibility."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).

Schiller, Steven R., Jeff Deason, Kelly Parmenter, Greg Leventis, and Lisa C. Schwartz."Future of Energy Efficiency in Buildings: Drivers and Market Expectations." (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).

Schwartz, Lisa C., Cesca Miller, Sean Murphy, and Natalie Mims Frick."State Indicators for Advancing Demand Flexibility and Energy Efficiency in Buildings." (2021).

Stuart, Elizabeth."An Ally in Your Corner: Benefits of Using Owner's Representatives." (2021).

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

2020

Goldman, Charles A., Sean Murphy, Ian M. Hoffman, Natalie Mims Frick, Greg Leventis, and Lisa C. Schwartz."What does the future hold for utility electricity efficiency programs?."The Electricity Journal 33.4 (2020). DOI

Schwartz, Lisa C., and Greg Leventis."Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings: An Introduction for State and Local Governments." (2020).

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.

2019

Frick, Natalie Mims, Eric Wilson, Janet Reyna, Andrew Parker, Elaina Present, Janghyun Kim, Tianzhen Hong, Han Li, and Tom Eckman."End-Use Load Profiles for the U.S. Building Stock: Market Needs, Use Cases, and Data Gaps." (2019).

Frick, Natalie Mims."End Use Load Profile Inventory." (2019).

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Sean Murphy, Elizabeth Stuart, Peter H. Larsen, and Charles A. Goldman."Evaluating project level investment trends for the U.S. ESCO industry: 1990-2017."Energy Policy 130.July 2019 (2019) 139-161. DOI

2018

Frick, Natalie Mims, Lisa C. Schwartz, and Alyse Taylor-Anyikire."A Framework for Integrated Analysis of Distributed Energy Resources: Guide for States." (2018).

Deason, Jeff, Max Wei, Greg Leventis, Sarah Josephine Smith, and Lisa C. Schwartz."Electrification of buildings and industry in the United States: Drivers, barriers, prospects, and policy approaches." (2018).

Stuart, Elizabeth, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Peter H. Larsen, Charles A. Goldman, and Donald Gilligan."Understanding recent market trends of the US ESCO industry."Energy Efficiency 11 (2018) 1303–1324. DOI