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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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2017

Hoffman, Ian M, Charles A Goldman, Gregory M Rybka, Greg Leventis, Lisa C Schwartz, Alan H Sanstad, and Steven R Schiller."Estimating the cost of saving electricity through U.S. utility customer-funded energy efficiency programs."Energy Policy 104 (2017) 1-12. DOI

Frick, Natalie Mims, Steven R Schiller, Elizabeth Stuart, Lisa C Schwartz, Chris Kramer, and Richard Faesy."Evaluation of U.S. Building Energy Benchmarking and Transparency Programs: Attributes, Impacts, and Best Practices." (2017).

Satchwell, Andrew, Peter Cappers, and Charles A Goldman."Financial Impacts of a Combined Energy Efficiency and Net-Metered PV Portfolio on a Prototypical Northeast Utility." (2017).

Schiller, Steven R, Jennifer Potter, David Kathan, Mark S Martinez, and Peter Langbein."Introduction to Wholesale and Retail Demand Response with a Focus on Measurement and Verification." (2017).

Larsen, Peter H, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Charles A Goldman, Sean Murphy, and Elizabeth Stuart."Updated Estimates of the Remaining Market Potential of the U.S. ESCO Industry." (2017).

Potter, Jennifer, Jeff Deason, and Lisa C Schwartz."Adopting Energy-Efficient Technologies for Street Lighting: Overcoming Challenges for Utilities." (2017).

Cutter, Eric, Kiran Chawla, and Ian M Hoffman."Better Buildings Residential Energy Efficiency Cost-Effectiveness Tool Version 2.0." (2017).

Hoffman, Ian M."Gauging the Impact of Various Definitions of Low- and Moderate-Income Communities on Possible Electricity Savings From Weatherization." (2017).

Schiller, Steven R, Michael Li, Molly Cripps, Rodney Sobin, Peter L Therkelsen, and Elizabeth Stuart."Consistency and Coordination of Energy Efficiency EM&V and Reporting."Energy Efficiency EM&V Webinar Series (2017).

Hoffman, Ian M, Greg Leventis, and Charles A Goldman."Trends in the Program Administrator Cost of Saving Electricity for Utility Customer-Funded Energy Efficiency Programs." (2017).

2016

Schiller, Steven R, Lisa Skumatz, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Jessica Burdette, and Matt Klucher."Evaluating and Quantifying the Non-Energy Impacts of Energy Efficiency."Energy Efficiency EM&V Webinar Series (2016).

Schiller, Steven R, C Anna Spurlock, Annika Todd-Blick, and Bill Saxonis."Evaluation of Residential Behavior-Based Programs."Energy Efficiency EM&V Webinar Series (2016).

Schiller, Steven R, Robert G Ozar, Carmen Best, and Jeff Harris."Setting Baselines for Planning and Evaluation of Efficiency Programs."Energy Efficiency EM&V Webinar Series (2016).

Deason, Jeff, Greg Leventis, Charles A Goldman, and Juan Pablo Carvallo."Energy Efficiency Program Financing: Where it comes from, where it goes, and how it gets there." (2016).

Schiller, Steven R, Jennifer Easler, Chuck Rea, and Tina Jayaweera."Using Deemed Savings and Technical Reference Manuals for Efficiency Programs and Projects."Energy Efficiency EM&V Webinar Series (2016).

Schiller, Steven R, Jennifer Meissner, Katie Rich, and Fred Gordon."Planning and Budgeting for the Evaluation of Energy Efficiency Programs."Energy Efficiency EM&V Webinar Series (2016).

Hoffman, Alex, Gregory M Rybka, David Shephard-Gaw, Ian M Hoffman, Charles A Goldman, and Lisa C Schwartz."Energy Efficiency Reporting Tool for Public Power Utilities." (2016).

Schiller, Steven R."Introduction to Technical Reference Manuals (TRMs) for Kentucky Energy Efficiency Programs." (2016).

Schiller, Steven R."Demand Side Efficiency, EM&V and the Clean Power Plan: NARUC Presentation." (2016).

Billingsley, Megan A, J Chris Stratton, and Emily Martin Fadrhonc."Energy Advisors: Improving Customer Experience and Efficiency Program Outcomes." (2016).

Cappers, Peter, Jason S MacDonald, Janie Page, Jennifer Potter, and Emma M Stewart."Future Opportunities and Challenges with Using Demand Response as a Resource in Distribution System Operation and Planning Activities." (2016).

Schiller, Steven R, and Lisa C Schwartz."Coordinating Demand-Side Efficiency Evaluation, Measurement and Verification Among Western States: Options for Documenting Energy and Non- Energy Impacts for the Power Sector." (2016).

Schiller, Steven R, Lisa C Schwartz, Deborah Reynolds, Stacey Donohue, Kamran Khan, John Goodin, Tina Jayaweera, and Alaine Ginocchio."Coordinating Energy Efficiency (EE) and Demand Response (DR) Evaluation, Measurement and Verification (EM&V) Among Western State Agencies." (2016).

Stuart, Elizabeth, Peter H Larsen, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Charles A Goldman, and Donald Gilligan."U.S. Energy Service Company (ESCO) Industry: Recent Market Trends." (2016).

2015

Schiller, Steven R."Demand Side Efficiency EM&V and the Clean Power Plan: Presentation #1- Basics of EE, EM&V and the CPP." (2015).