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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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2002

Schlegel, Jeff."Energy Efficiency Options for the New England Demand Response Initiative (NEDRI) – Framing Paper #4." (2002) 43.

Goldman, Charles A.."Price-Responsive Load (PRL) Program - Framing Paper #1." (2002) 40.

Goldman, Charles A.."Demand Response Programs: Configuring Load as a Resource for Competitive Electricity Markets."NARUC Winter Meeting Washington DC Feb. 13, 2002 (2002).

2001

Heffner, Grayson C., and Charles A. Goldman."Demand Responsive Programs - An Emerging Resource for Competitive Electricity Markets?." (2001) 15.

Fridley, David, and Jiang Lin."Energy Saving Potential of Standards and Labeling in China." (2001).

Fridley, David, Gregory J. Rosenquist, Jiang Lin, Li Aixian, Xin Dingguo, and Cheng Jianhong."Technical and Economic Analysis of Energy Efficiency of Chinese Room Air Conditioners." (2001).

2000

Goldman, Charles A.."Assessment of Experiences with Third Party Approaches." (2000) 52.

1998

Prahl, Ralph, Jeff Schlegel, and Charles A. Goldman."Organizing for Market Transformation: Institutional Issues in the Creation of a New Energy Efficiency Policy Framework in California." (1998) 14.

Eto, Joseph H, Charles A. Goldman, and Steven M. Nadel."Ratepayer-Funded Energy-Efficiency Programs in a Restructured Electricity Industry: Issues and Options for Regulators and Legislators." (1998) 77.

Eto, Joseph H, Steven Stoft, and M. Suzie Kito."DSM Shareholder Incentives: Recent Designs and Economic Theory."Utilities Policy (1998) 16. DOI

1997

Eto, Joseph H, Steven Stoft, and Timothy N Belden."The Theory and Practice of Decoupling Utility Revenues from Sales."Utilities Policy 6.1 (1997). DOI

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).

1996

Golove, William H., and Joseph H Eto."Energy Efficiency, the Free Market and Rationales for Government Intervention."North American Conference of the USAEE/IAEE, Boston, Massachusetts, October 27-30, 1996 (1996) 10.

Eto, Joseph H, Charles A. Goldman, and M. Suzie Kito."Ratepayer-Funded Energy-Efficiency Programs in a Restructured Electricity Industry: Issues, Options, and Unanswered Questions."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (1996).

Eto, Joseph H, Charles A. Goldman, and M. Suzie Kito."Ratepayer-Funded Energy-Efficiency Programs in a Restructured Electricity Industry: Issues, Options, and Unanswered Questions." (1996) 24.

Edgar, George, Charles A. Goldman, Barbara J. McKellar, Edward Carroll, Martin Kushler, and Wayne DeForest."Evalutations of ENvest sce and Teem Pilot Projects." (1996) 6.

Eto, Joseph H, Ralph Prahl, and Jeff Schlegel."A Scoping Study on Energy-Efficiency Market Transformation by California Utility DSM Programs." (1996) 150.

Eto, Joseph H, and Eric Hirst."What Kind of Future for Energy Efficiency?."The Electricity Journal 9.5 (1996). DOI

Golove, William H., and Joseph H Eto."Market Barriers to Energy Efficiency: A Critical Reappraisal of the Rationale for Public Policies to Promote Energy Efficiency." (1996) 66.

Busch, John F., and Joseph H Eto."Estimation of Avoided Costs for Electric Utility Demand-side Planning."Energy Sources 18 (1996) 28. DOI

1995

Hirst, Eric, and Joseph H Eto."Justification for Electric-Utility Energy-Efficiency Programs." (1995).

Pagliano, Lorenzo, Angelica Tudini, Joseph H Eto, and Roberto Caponio."Current Trends for Italian National and Local Power Companies: Prospects for Integrated Resource Planning."1995 International Energy Program Evaluation Conference (1995).

Stoft, Steven, Joseph H Eto, and M. Suzie Kito."DSM Shareholder Incentives: Current Designs and Economic Theory." (1995).

1994

Goldman, Charles A., and M. Suzie Kito."Review of Demand-Side Bidding Programs: Impacts, Costs, and Cost-Effectiveness." (1994) 143.

Levine, Mark D., Eric Hirst, Jonathan G. Koomey, James E. McMahon, and Alan H. Sanstad."Energy Efficiency, Market Failures, and Government Policy." (1994) 42.