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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

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).

Kahn-Lang, Jenya, Cesca Miller, Andrew Satchwell, and Elaina Present."Building efficiency, electrification, and distributed solar PV bill savings under time-based retail rate designs." (2024).

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).

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

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

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

Cappers, Peter, Andrew Satchwell, Max Dupuy, and Carl Linvill."The Distribution of U.S. Electric Utility Revenue Decoupling Rate Impacts from 2005 to 2017." (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

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

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

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).

Darghouth, Naïm R, Galen L Barbose, and Andrew D Mills."Implications of Rate Design for the Customer-Economics of Behind-the-Meter Storage." (2019).

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

2018

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

Satchwell, Andrew, and Peter Cappers."Evolving Grid Services, Products, and Market Opportunities for Regulated Electric Utilities." (2018).

Satchwell, Andrew, Peter Cappers, and Charles A Goldman."Customer bill impacts of energy efficiency and net-metered photovoltaic system investments."Utilities Policy 50 (2018) 144-152. DOI

2017

Tongsopit, Sopitsuda, Owen R Zinaman, and Naïm R Darghouth."Understanding the Impact of Distributed Photovoltaic Adoption on Utility Revenues and Retail Electricity Tariffs in Thailand." (2017).

Darghouth, Naïm R, Galen L Barbose, Andrew D Mills, Ryan H Wiser, Pieter Gagnon, and Lori Bird."Exploring Demand Charge Savings from Commercial Solar." (2017).

Darghouth, Naïm R, Galen L Barbose, Andrew D Mills, Ryan H Wiser, Pieter Gagnon, and Lori Bird."Exploring Demand Charge Savings from Residential Solar." (2017).

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).