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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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2014

Johnson, Alissa K, Amol A Phadke, and Stephane de la Rue du Can."Energy Savings Potential for Street Lighting in India." (2014).

Hoffman, Ian M, Gregory M Rybka, Greg Leventis, Charles A Goldman, and Lisa C Schwartz."The Total Cost of Saving Electricity Through Utility Customer-Funded Energy Efficiency Programs." (2014).

2013

Ma, Ookie, Nasr Alkadi, Peter Cappers, Paul Denholm, Junqiao Han Dudley, Sasank Goli, Marissa Hummon, Sila Kiliccote, Jason S MacDonald, Nance Matson, Daniel Olsen, Cody Rose, Michael D Sohn, Michael Starke, Brendan J Kirby, and Mark O'Malley."Demand Response for Ancillary Services."IEEE Transaction on Smart Grid 4 (2013).

Cappers, Peter, Jason S MacDonald, Charles A Goldman, and Ookie Ma."An assessment of market and policy barriers for demand response providing ancillary services in U.S. electricity markets."Energy Policy 62 (2013) 1031-1039. DOI

Stuart, Elizabeth, Peter H Larsen, Charles A Goldman, and Donald Gilligan."Current Size and Remaining Market Potential of the U.S. Energy Service Company Industry." (2013).

Hoffman, Ian M, Megan A Billingsley, Steven R Schiller, Charles A Goldman, and Elizabeth Stuart."Energy Efficiency Program Typology and Data Metrics: Enabling Multi-State Analyses Through the Use of Common Terminology." (2013).

Gopal, Anand R, Greg Leventis, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Nihar Shah, and Amol A Phadke."Trading Appliance Efficiency for Electricity Subsidies: The Potential in Emerging Economies."ECEEE 2013 Summer Study (2013).

Gopal, Anand R, Laura Schewel, Samveg Saxena, and Amol A Phadke."The Transportation Leapfrog: Using Smart Phones to Collect Driving Data and Model Fuel Economy in India." (2013).

Hoffman, Ian M, Mark Zimring, and Steven R Schiller."Assessing Natural Gas Energy Efficiency Programs in a Low-Price Environment." (2013).

Hoffman, Ian M, Merrian Borgeson, and Mark Zimring."Implications of Cost Effectiveness Screening Practices in a Low Natural Gas Price Environment: Case Study of a Midwestern Residential Energy Upgrade Program." (2013).

Cappers, Peter, Jason S MacDonald, and Charles A Goldman."Market and Policy Barriers for Demand Response Providing Ancillary Services in U.S. Markets." (2013).

Woolf, Tim, Erin Malone, Lisa C Schwartz, and John Shenot."A Framework for Evaluating the Cost-effectiveness of Demand Response." (2013).

Goldberg, Miriam L, and G. G Kennedy Agnew."Measurement and Verification for Demand Response." (2013).

Barbose, Galen L, Charles A Goldman, Ian M Hoffman, and Megan A Billingsley."The Future of Utility Customer-Funded Energy Efficiency Programs in the United States: Projected Spending and Savings to 2025." (2013). DOI

2012

MacDonald, Jason S, Peter Cappers, Duncan S Callaway, and Sila Kiliccote."Demand Response Providing Ancillary Services A Comparison of Opportunities and Challenges in the US Wholesale Markets."Grid-Interop 2012 (2012).

Larsen, Peter H, Charles A Goldman, and Andrew Satchwell."Evolution of the U.S. Energy Service Company Industry: Market Size and Project Performance from 1990-2008."Energy Policy 50 (2012). DOI

Borgeson, Merrian."Review of Self-direct Demand Side Management (DSM) Programs." (2012).

Larsen, Peter H, Charles A Goldman, Donald Gilligan, and Terry E Singer."Incorporating Non-energy Benefits into Energy Savings Performance Contracts."2012 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2012).

Larsen, Peter H, Charles A Goldman, and Andrew Satchwell."Evolution of the U.S. Energy Service Company Industry: Market Size and Project Performance from 1990-2008." (2012).

Zimring, Mark, Merrian Borgeson, Ian M Hoffman, Charles A Goldman, Elizabeth Stuart, Annika Todd-Blick, and Megan A Billingsley."Boulder, Colorado's SmartRegs: Minimum Performance Standards for Residential Rental Housing." (2012).

2011

Satchwell, Andrew, Peter Cappers, and Charles A Goldman."Carrots and sticks: A comprehensive business model for the successful achievement of energy efficiency resource standards."Utilities Policy 19.4 (2011) 218-225. DOI

Zimring, Mark, Merrian Borgeson, Ian M Hoffman, Charles A Goldman, Elizabeth Stuart, Annika Todd-Blick, and Megan A Billingsley."Delivering Energy Efficiency to Middle Income Single Family Households." (2011) 102.

Stuart, Elizabeth."The Value of Energy Performance and Green Attributes in Buildings: A Review of Existing Literature and Recommendations for Future Research."Clean Energy Program Policy Brief (2011) 10.

Larsen, Peter H."Energy Service Company (ESCO) Project Performance Benchmarking Fact Sheets." (2011).

Schiller, Steven R, Charles A Goldman, and Elsia Galawish."National Energy Efficiency Evaluation, Measurement and Verification (EM&V) Standard: Scoping Study of Issues and Implementation Requirements." (2011) 80.