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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) 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

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).

Gerke, Brian F, Marius Stübs, Samanvitha Murthy, Aditya Khandekar, Peter Cappers, Richard E Brown, and Mary Ann Piette."Potential bill impacts of dynamic electricity pricing on California utility customers." (2024). DOI

2023

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, and Lisa C Schwartz."The use of price-based demand response as a resource in electricity system planning." (2023).

Cappers, Peter, Andrew Satchwell, Cameron Brooks, and Sam Kozel."A Snapshot of EV-Specific Rate Designs Among U.S. Investor-Owned Electric Utilities." (2023).

2022

Cappers, Peter, and Andrew Satchwell."EVGrid Assist Webinar: Electric Vehicle Rates and Incentives." (2022).

Cappers, Peter, and Andrew Satchwell."EV Retail Rate Design 101." (2022).

2021

Cappers, Peter, and Annika Todd-Blick."Heterogeneity in Own-Price Residential Customer Demand Elasticities for Electricity under Time-of-Use Rates: Evidence from a Randomized-Control Trial in the United States."Utilities Policy (2021).

Cappers, Peter, Sydney Forrester, and Andrew Satchwell."Disaggregating Future Retail Electricity Rate Growth." (2021).

Fowlie, Meredith, Catherine Wolfram, Patrick Baylis, C Anna Spurlock, Annika Todd-Blick, and Peter Cappers."Default Effects and Follow-On Behaviour: Evidence From an Electricity Pricing Program."The Review of Economic Studies 88.6 (2021) 2886–2934. DOI

2020

Todd-Blick, Annika, C Anna Spurlock, Ling Jin, Peter Cappers, Sam Borgeson, Daniel Fredman, and Jarett Zuboy."Winners are not keepers: Characterizing household engagement, gains, and energy patterns in demand response using machine learning in the United States."Energy Research & Social Science 70 (2020). DOI

Cappers, Peter, and C Anna Spurlock."A Handbook for Designing, Implementing, and Evaluating Successful Electric Utility Pilots." (2020).

2019

Cappers, Peter, and Sean Murphy."Unpacking the Disconnect Between Wholesale and Retail Electric Rates." (2019).

Lazar, Alina, Ling Jin, C Anna Spurlock, Kesheng Wu, Alex Sim, and Annika Todd-Blick."Evaluating the Effects of Missing Values and Mixed Data Types on Social Sequence Clustering Using t-SNE Visualization."Journal of Data and Information Quality 11.2 (2019) 1 - 22. DOI

Phadke, Amol A, Margaret McCall, and Deepak Rajagopal."Reforming electricity rates to enable economically competitive electric trucking."Environmental Research Letters 14.12 (2019) 124047. DOI

2018

Cappers, Peter, Annika Todd-Blick, and Greg Leventis."Uses for Smart Meter Data Webinar Series." (2018).

2017

Kim, Taehoon, Dongeun Lee, Jaesik Choi, C Anna Spurlock, Alex Sim, Annika Todd-Blick, and Kesheng Wu."Predicting Baseline for Analysis of Electricity Pricing."International Journal of Big Data Intelligence (IJBDI) Vol. 5.No. 1/2, 2018 (2017) 3-20. DOI

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).

Cappers, Peter, and Rich Scheer."American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009: Final Report on Customer Acceptance, Retention, and Response to Time-Based Rates from Consumer Behavior Studies." (2016).

Cappers, Peter, C Anna Spurlock, Annika Todd-Blick, and Ling Jin."Experiences of Vulnerable Residential Customer Subpopulations with Critical Peak Pricing." (2016).

Cappers, Peter, C Anna Spurlock, Annika Todd-Blick, Patrick Baylis, Meredith Fowlie, and Catherine Wolfram."Time-of-Use as a Default Rate for Residential Customers: Issues and Insights." (2016).

Hledik, Ryan, Jim Lazar, and Lisa C Schwartz."Distribution System Pricing with Distributed Energy Resources."Future Electric Utility Regulation Report Series FEUR Report No. 4 (2016).

Spurlock, C Anna, Peter Cappers, Ling Jin, Annika Todd-Blick, and Patrick Baylis."Go for the Silver? Evidence from field studies quantifying the difference in evaluation results between “gold standard” randomized controlled trial methods versus quasi-experimental methods."2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2016).

Patel, Siddharth, Sam Borgeson, Ram Rajagopal, C Anna Spurlock, Ling Jin, and Annika Todd-Blick."Time Will Tell: Using Smart Meter Time Series Data to Derive Household Features and Explain Heter ogeneity in Pricing Programs."2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2016).

2015

Cappers, Peter, Liesel Hans, and Richard M Scheer."American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009: Interim Report on Customer Acceptance, Retention, and Response to Time-Based Rates from the Consumer Behavior Studies." (2015).

2014

Cappers, Peter, and Richard M Scheer."American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009: Experiences from the Consumer Behavior Studies on Engaging Customers." (2014).