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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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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."ECEEE Summer Study, Giens, France, June 6-11, 2011 (2011) 24.

Goldman, Charles A, Elizabeth Stuart, Ian M Hoffman, Merrian C Fuller, Megan A Billingsley, and Merrian Borgeson."Interactions between Energy Efficiency Programs funded under the Recovery Act and Utility Customer-Funded Energy Efficiency Programs." (2011) 73.

2010

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.

Satchwell, Andrew, Charles A Goldman, Peter H Larsen, Donald Gilligan, and Terry E Singer."A Survey of the U.S. ESCO Industry: Market Growth and Development from 2008 to 2011." (2010) 31.

Cappers, Peter, Charles A Goldman, and David Kathan."Demand Response in U.S. Electricity Markets: Empirical Evidence."Energy 35.4 (2010) 1526-1535. DOI

Messenger, Michael, Ranjit Bharvirkar, Bill Golemboski, Charles A Goldman, and Steven R Schiller."Review of Evaluation, Measurement and Verification Approaches Used to Estimate the Load Impacts and Effectiveness of Energy Efficiency Programs." (2010) 62.

Koomey, Jonathan G, Hashem Akbari, Carl Blumstein, Marilyn A Brown, Richard E Brown, Chris Calwell, Sheryl Carter, Ralph Cavanagh, Audrey Chang, David Claridge, Paul P Craig, Richard C Diamond, Joseph H Eto, William Fulkerson, Ashok J Gadgil, Howard S Geller, José Goldemberg, Charles A Goldman, David B Goldstein, Steve E Greenberg, David Hafemeister, Jeffrey P Harris, Hal Harvey, Eric Heitz, Eric Hirst, Holmes Hummel, Daniel M Kammen, Henry Kelly, John A Laitner, Mark D Levine, Amory Lovins, Gil Masters, James E McMahon, Alan K Meier, Michael Messenger, John Millhone, Evan Mills, Steven M Nadel, Bruce Nordman, Lynn K Price, Joseph J Romm, Marc Ross, Michael Rufo, Jayant A Sathaye, Leon J Schipper, Stephen H Schneider, James L Sweeney, Malcolm Verdict, Diana Vorsatz, Devra Wang, Carl Weinberg, Richard Wilk, John Wilson, and Ernst Worrell."Defining a standard metric for electricity savings."Environmental Research Letters 5.1 (2010). DOI

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.

Bharvirkar, Ranjit, Grayson C Heffner, and Charles A Goldman."Retail Demand Response in Southwest Power Pool." (2009) 33.

2008

Bharvirkar, Ranjit, Charles A Goldman, Donald Gilligan, Terry E Singer, David Birr, Patricia Donahue, and Scott Serota."Performance Contracting and Energy Efficiency in the State Government Market." (2008) 88.

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.

Bharvirkar, Ranjit, Charles A Goldman, Grayson C Heffner, and Richard Sedano."Coordination of Retail Demand Response with Midwest ISO Wholesale Markets." (2008) 39.

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

Coughlin, Katie, Mary Ann Piette, Charles A Goldman, and Sila Kiliccote."Estimating Demand Response Load Impacts: Evaluation of Baseline Load Models for Non- Residential Buildings in California." (2008) 33.

2007

Goldman, Charles A, Nicole C Hopper, Ranjit Bharvirkar, Bernard Neenan, and Peter Cappers."A Methodology for Estimating Large-Customer Demand Response Market Potential." (2007) 19.

Hopper, Nicole C, Charles A Goldman, Donald Gilligan, Terry E Singer, and David Birr."A Survey of the U.S. ESCO Industry: Market Growth and Development from 2000 to 2006." (2007) 37.

Hopper, Nicole C, Charles A Goldman, Ranjit Bharvirkar, and Daniel Engel."The Summer of 2006: A Milestone in the Ongoing Maturation of Demand Response." (2007) 22.

Puckett, Curt D, and Timothy P Hennessy."Deemed Savings Estimates for Legacy Air Conditioning and Water Heating Direct Load Control Programs in PJM Region." (2007) 101.

Goldman, Charles A, Nicole C Hopper, Ranjit Bharvirkar, Bernard Neenan, and Peter Cappers."Estimating Demand Response Market Potential among Large Commercial and Industrial Customers: A Scoping Study." (2007) 89.

2006

Fry, Terry, Robert Hinkle, and Daniel Engel."Demand Response Program Design Preferences of Large Customers: Focus Group Results from Four States." (2006) 69.

2005

Goldman, Charles A, Nicole C Hopper, Ranjit Bharvirkar, Bernard Neenan, Richard Boisvert, Peter Cappers, Donna Pratt, and Kim Butkins."Customer Strategies for Responding to Day-Ahead Market Hourly Electricity Pricing." (2005) 107.

Fridley, David, Jiang Lin, Andrea Denver, Peter J Biermayer, and Tyler J Dillavou."CFL Labeling Harmonization in the United States, China, Brazil and ELI Member Countries: Specifications, Testing, and Mutual Recognition." (2005) 30.