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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

Gorman, Will, Galen L Barbose, Sunhee Baik, Cesca Miller, and Juan Pablo Carvallo."Bill Savings vs. Backup Power: Evaluating operational tradeoffs for home solar+storage systems." (2024).

Frick, Natalie Mims, Sunhee Baik, Mark Bolinger, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Cesca Miller, Dev Millstein, Sean Murphy, Margaret Pigman, and Lisa C Schwartz."Consumer Benefits of A Clean Energy Transition: Policy Brief." (2024).

Bolinger, Mark, Natalie Mims Frick, and Ryan H Wiser."Consumer Impacts of A Clean Energy Transition: Renewable Energy." (2024).

Sandonato, Anthony, Bentham Paulos, and Greg Leventis."Community Solar for Opportunity States: An exploration of development models for community solar projects in states that lack explicit enabling policies." (2024).

Barbose, Galen L."One Year In: Tracking the Impacts of NEM 3.0 on California’s Residential Solar Market." (2024).

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

2023

Forrester, Sydney, Cole Triedman, Sam Kozel, Cameron Brooks, and Peter Cappers."Third-Party Aggregation Rulemaking in MISO and SPP Footprints." (2023).

Satchwell, Andrew, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Peter Cappers, James Milford, and Hadi Eshraghi."Quantifying the Financial Impacts of Electric Vehicles on Utility Ratepayers and Shareholders." (2023).

2022

Ingram, Michael, David Narang, Xiangkun Li, Caitlin Marquis, Debbie Lew, and Sydney Forrester."DER Interconnection Workshop." (2022).

Forrester, Sydney, Galen L Barbose, and Cesca Miller."Private vs. public value of U.S. residential battery storage operated for solar self-consumption."iScience 25.8 (2022). DOI

Seel, Joachim, Will Gorman, Galen L Barbose, Mark Bolinger, Cristina Crespo Montañés, Sydney Forrester, James Hyungkwan Kim, Fredrich Kahrl, Andrew D Mills, Dev Millstein, Bentham Paulos, Joseph Rand, Cody Warner, and Ryan H Wiser."Batteries Included: Top 10 Findings from Berkeley Lab Research on the Growth of Hybrid Power Plants in the United States." (2022).

Gill, Carrie, Shauna Beland, Ryan Constable, Tim Roughan, Caitlin Broderick, Stephen Lasher, Joyce McLaren, Sherin Abraham, Anthony Teixeria, Naïm R Darghouth, and Sydney Forrester."Use of Operating Agreements and Energy Storage to Reduce Photovoltaic Interconnection Costs: Conceptual Framework." (2022).

McLaren, Joyce, Sherin Abraham, Naïm R Darghouth, and Sydney Forrester."Use of Operating Agreements and Energy Storage to Reduce Photovoltaic Interconnection Costs: Technical and Economic Analysis." (2022).

2021

Forrester, Sydney, and Peter Cappers."Opportunities and Challenges to Capturing Distributed Battery Value via Retail Utility Rates and Programs." (2021).

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Stephanie Bieler, Myles T Collins, Joscha Mueller, Christoph Gehbauer, Douglas J Gotham, and Peter H Larsen."A framework to measure the technical, economic, and rate impacts of distributed solar, electric vehicles, and storage."Applied Energy 297 (2021). DOI

Paulos, Bentham, Sydney Forrester, Eric O'Shaughnessy, Christopher Dyson, Galen L Barbose, and Ryan H Wiser."An Assessment of Evaluation Practices of Low- And Moderate-Income Solar Programs." (2021).

2020

Darghouth, Naïm R, Galen L Barbose, Jarett Zuboy, Pieter Gagnon, Andrew D Mills, and Lori Bird."Demand charge savings from solar PV and energy storage."Energy Policy 146 (2020). DOI

Zinaman, Owen R, and Naïm R Darghouth."Distributed Solar Utility Tariff and Revenue Impact Analysis: A Guidebook for International Practitioners." (2020).

O'Shaughnessy, Eric, Galen L Barbose, Ryan H Wiser, Sydney Forrester, and Naïm R Darghouth."The impact of policies and business models on income equity in rooftop solar adoption."Nature Energy (2020). DOI

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

O'Shaughnessy, Eric, Galen L Barbose, and Ryan H Wiser."Patience is a virtue: A data-driven analysis of rooftop solar PV permitting timelines in the United States."Energy Policy 144 (2020). DOI

Barbose, Galen L, and Andrew Satchwell."Benefits and costs of a utility-ownership business model for residential rooftop solar photovoltaics."Nature Energy (2020). DOI

Darghouth, Naïm R, James McCall, David Keyser, and Alexandra Aznar."Distributed Photovoltaic Economic Impact Analysis in Indonesia." (2020).

2019

Satchwell, Andrew, Peter Cappers, Javier Reneses, Will Gorman, and Greg Leventis."Financial Impacts of Net-Metered DPV on a Prototypical Western Utility’s Shareholders and Ratepayers." (2019).