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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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2010

Goldman, Charles A., Merrian C. Fuller, Elizabeth Stuart, Jane S. Peters, Marjorie McRae, Nathaniel Albers, Susan Lutzenhiser, Mersiha Spahic, and Merrian Borgeson."Energy Efficiency Services Sector: Workforce Size and Expectations for Growth." (2010) 106.

Cappers, Peter, Andrew Satchwell, Charles A. Goldman, and Jeff Schlegel."Benefits and Costs of Aggressive Energy Efficiency Programs and the Impacts of Alternative Sources of Funding: Case Study of Massachusetts."ACEEE Summer Study, Pacific Grove, CA, Aug. 15-20, 2010 (2010) 22.

Cappers, Peter, and Charles A. Goldman."Financial Impact of Energy Efficiency under a Federal Renewable Electricity Standard: Case Study of a Kansas “super-utility”." (2010) 28.

Goldman, Charles A., Jane S. Peters, Nathaniel Albers, Elizabeth Stuart, Merrian C. Fuller, and Merrian Borgeson."Energy Efficiency Services Sector: Workforce Education and Training Needs." (2010) 72.

Goldman, Charles A., Michael Reid, Roger Levy, and Alison Silverstein."Coordination of Energy Efficiency and Demand Response." (2010) 74.

2009

Barbose, Galen L., Charles A. Goldman, and Jeff Schlegel."The Shifting Landscape of Ratepayer-Funded Energy Efficiency in the U.S.." (2009) 41.

Cappers, Peter, and Charles A. Goldman."Empirical Assessment of Shareholder Incentive Mechanisms Designs under Aggressive Savings Goals: Case Study of a Kansas “Super-Utility”." (2009) 15.

Cappers, Peter, Charles A. Goldman, Michele Chait, George Edgar, Jeff Schlegel, and Wayne Shirley."Financial Analysis of Incentive Mechanisms to Promote Energy Efficiency: Case Study of a Prototypical Southwest Utility." (2009) 83.

2008

Cappers, Peter, Charles A. Goldman, Michele Chait, George Edgar, Jeff Schlegel, and Wayne Shirley."Quantitative Financial Analysis of Alternative Energy Efficiency Shareholder Incentive Mechanisms."ACEEE 2008 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2008) 15.

Fridley, David, Nina Zheng, Nan Zhou, Nathaniel T. Aden, Jiang Lin, Jianhong Cheng, Tomoyuki Sakamoto, and Nina Khanna."China Refrigerator Information Label: Specification Development and Potential Impact." (2008).

Puckett, Curt D., Timothy P. Hennessy, Grayson C. Heffner, and Charles A. Goldman."Regional Approaches to Measurement and Verification of Load Management Programs."IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 23.1 (2008) 204 - 212. DOI

2007

Fridley, David, Nathaniel T. Aden, Nan Zhou, and Jiang Lin."Impacts of China’s Current Appliance Standards and Labeling Program to 2020." (2007).

Lin, Jiang."Energy Conservation Investments: a Comparison Between China and the US."Energy Policy 35.2 (2007) 916 - 924. DOI

2006

Lin, Jiang."Mitigating Carbon Emissions: the Potential of Improving Efficiency of Household Appliances in China." (2006).

Energy, U.S. Department of."Benefits of Demand Response in Electricity Markets and Recommendations for Achieving Them - A Report to the United States Congress Pursant to Section 1252 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005." (2006) 122.

2005

Lin, Jiang."Trends in Energy Efficiency Investments in China and the US." (2005).

2004

Goldman, Charles A.."Demand Response Programs: Lessons from the Northeast."Mid Atlantic Demand Response Initiative Meeting Baltimore MDDecember 10, 2004 (2004).

Goldman, Charles A.."Demand Response National Trends: Implications for the West?."Committee on Regional Electric Power Cooperation San Francisco, CA March 25, 2004 (2004).

2003

Boisvert, Richard, and Bernard Neenan."Social Welfare Implications of Demand Response Programs in Competitive Electricity Markets." (2003) 64.

Blumstein, Carl, Charles A. Goldman, and Galen L. Barbose."Who Should Administer Energy Efficiency Programs?." (2003) 24.

Goldman, Charles A.."Demand Response: An Untapped Resource for Western Electricity Markets."FERC Western Energy Infrastructure Conference Denver, Colorado July 30, 2003 (2003).

Goldman, Charles A., Rick Weston, Jeff Schlegel, Richard Sedano, Jim Lazar, Brendan J. Kirby, and Eric Hirst."Dimensions of Demand Response: Capturing Customer Based Resources in New England's Power System and Markets." (2003) 86.

Goldman, Charles A.."Energy Efficiency Programs: Administration and Governance Options."New Jersey Clean Energy Council April 23, 2003 (2003).

2002

Heffner, Grayson C.."Configuring Load as a Resource for Competitive Electricity Markets - Review of the Demand Response Programs in the U.S. and Around the World." (2002) 8.

Goldman, Charles A., Joseph H Eto, and Galen L. Barbose."California Customer Load Reductions during the Electricity Crisis: Did they Help to Keep the Lights On?." (2002) 39.