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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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2024

Pereira, Guillermo, Cynthia Regnier, Lazlo Paul, Marco Pritoni, and Cecilia Johnson."Bringing demand flexibility to market: Insight on emerging business models from U.S. projects." (2024).

Miller, Cesca, Andrew Satchwell, and Jenya Kahn-Lang."The Customer Bill Impacts of Efficient Building Electrification."2024 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2024).

Murphy, Sean, Cesca Miller, Jeff Deason, Diana Dombrowski, and Portia Awuah."The State of Demand Flexibility Programs and Rates." (2024).

Kramer, Chris, Greg Leventis, and Jeff Deason."Driving Uptake for Energy Efficiency Financing Programs: Marketing and Outreach, Partnership Networks, and Program Design Considerations." (2024).

Paulos, Bentham."A Program Design Combining Community Solar and Weatherization for Manufactured Homes in Michigan." (2024).

2023

Ball, Jason, Sydney Forrester, Alexandra Grayson, and Andrew Satchwell."Electric Vehicle Program Designs and Strategies to Enhance Equitable Deployment." (2023).

Murphy, Sean, and Natalie Mims Frick."Estimating the Drivers of the Cost of Saved Electricity in Utility Customer-Funded Energy Efficiency Programs."Energies 16.5 (2023). DOI

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).

Li, Rongling, Andrew Satchwell, Donal Finn, Toke Haunstrup Christensen, Michael Kummert, Jérôme Le Dréau, Rui Amaral Lopes, Henrick Madsen, Jaume Salom, Gregor P Henze, and Kim Wittchen."Ten Questions Concerning Energy Flexibility In Buildings."Building and Environment 223 (2022). DOI

Satchwell, Andrew, and Ryan Hledik."Making Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings a “Win” for Both Customers and Utilities."2022 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022).

Deason, Jeff, Sean Murphy, and Charles A Goldman."Tracking the PACE of household energy usage: Energy usage impacts of projects financed through Property Assessed Clean Energy programs in California." (2022).

2021

Deason, Jeff, Sean Murphy, and Charles A Goldman."Empirical Estimation of the Energy Impacts of Projects Installed through Residential Property Assessed Clean Energy Financing Programs in California."Energies 14.23 (2021). DOI

Pigman, Margaret, Jeff Deason, and Sean Murphy."Who is participating in residential energy efficiency programs? Exploring demographic and other household characteristics of participants in utility customer-funded energy efficiency programs." (2021).

Murphy, Sean, Jeff Deason, and Andrew Satchwell."Timed to save: the added value of accounting for hourly incidence of electricity savings from residential space-conditioning measures."Energy Efficiency (2021). DOI

Frick, Natalie Mims, Sean Murphy, Cesca Miller, and Margaret Pigman."Still the One: Efficiency Remains a Cost-Effective Electricity Resource." (2021).

Murphy, Sean, and Jeff Deason."Energy efficiency lifetimes: How reported savings of electric and gas energy efficiency programs change over time." (2021).

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

Stuart, Elizabeth, Nichole L Hanus, Juan Pablo Carvallo, and Peter H Larsen."U.S. ESCO Industry: Industry Size and Recent Market Trends." (2021).

Satchwell, Andrew, Mary Ann Piette, Aditya Khandekar, Jessica Granderson, Natalie Mims Frick, Ryan Hledik, Ahmad Faruqui, Long Lam, Stephanie Ross, Jesse Cohen, Kitty Wang, Daniela Urigwe, Dan Delurey, Monica Neukomm, and David Nemtzow."A National Roadmap for Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings." (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).

2020

Frick, Natalie Mims, Sean Murphy, Cesca Miller, Greg Leventis, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Charles A Goldman, and Lisa C Schwartz."Peak Demand Savings from Efficiency: Opportunities and Practices." (2020).

Satchwell, Andrew, Peter Cappers, Jeff Deason, Sydney Forrester, Natalie Mims Frick, Brian F Gerke, and Mary Ann Piette."A Conceptual Framework to Describe Energy Efficiency and Demand Response Interactions." (2020).

Schiller, Steven R, Lisa C Schwartz, and Sean Murphy."Performance Assessments of Demand Flexibility from Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings: Issues and Considerations." (2020).

Seel, Joachim, Andrew D Mills, Cody Warner, Bentham Paulos, and Ryan H Wiser."Impacts of High Variable Renewable Energy Futures on Electric-Sector Decision Making: Demand-Side Effects." (2020).

Sutter, Mary, Jenn Mitchell-Jackson, Steven R Schiller, Lisa C Schwartz, and Ian M Hoffman."Applying Non-Energy Impacts from Other Jurisdictions in Cost-Benefit Analyses of Energy Efficiency Programs: Resources for States for Utility Customer-Funded Programs." (2020).