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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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2015

Arreola, , Georgina, Timothy Treadwell, and Ben Hoen."Survey of Buyers, Sellers and Realtors Involved In San Diego Third-Party Owned Solar Home Transactions – A Qualitative Assessment." (2015).

Adomatis, Sandra, and Ben Hoen."Appraising into the Sun: Six-State Solar Home Paired-Sales Analysis." (2015).

Wiser, Ryan H., Eric Lantz, Trieu Mai, Jose Zayas, Edgar A. DeMeo, Ed Eugeni, Jessica Lin-Powers, and Richard Tusing."Wind Vision: A New Era for Wind Power in the United States."The Electricity Journal 28.9 (2015). DOI

McManus, Marcell C., Caroline M. Taylor, Alison Mohr, Carly Whittaker, Corinne D. Scown, Aiduan Li Borrion, Neryssa J. Glithero, and Yao Yin."Challenge clusters facing LCA in environmental decision-making—what we can learn from biofuels."The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment (2015) 1399-1414.

Mills, Andrew D., and Joachim Seel."Flexibility Inventory for Western Resource Planners." (2015).

Mai, Trieu, Wesley Cole, Venkat Krishnan, and Mark Bolinger."Impact of Federal Tax Policy on Utility-Scale Solar Deployment Given Financing Interactions." (2015).

Feldman, David, Galen L. Barbose, Robert Margolis, Mark Bolinger, Donald Chung, Ran Fu, Joachim Seel, Carolyn Davidson, and Ryan H. Wiser."Photovoltaic System Pricing Trends: Historical, Recent, and Near-Term Projections." (2015).

Bolinger, Mark, and Joachim Seel."Utility-Scale Solar 2014: An Empirical Analysis of Project Cost, Performance, and Pricing Trends in the United States." (2015).

Wiser, Ryan H., Mark Bolinger, Galen L. Barbose, Naïm R. Darghouth, Ben Hoen, Andrew D. Mills, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Dev Millstein, Dana Hansen, Kevin Porter, Rebecca Widiss, Michael Buckley, Frank Oteri, Aaron Smith, and Suzanne Tegen."2014 Wind Technologies Market Report." (2015).

Munoz, Francisco D., and Andrew D. Mills."Endogenous Assessment of the Capacity Value of Solar PV in Generation Investment Planning Studies."IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy 6.4 (2015). DOI

Barbose, Galen L., Naïm R. Darghouth, Dev Millstein, Michael Spears, Ryan H. Wiser, Michael Buckley, Rebecca Widiss, and Nick Grue."Tracking the Sun VIII: The Installed Price of Residential and Non-Residential Photovoltaic Systems in the United States." (2015).

Darghouth, Naïm R., Ryan H. Wiser, Galen L. Barbose, and Andrew D. Mills."Net Metering and Market Feedback Loops: Exploring the Impact of Retail Rate Design on Distributed PV Deployment." (2015).

Gopal, Anand R., Maggie Witt, Nikit Abhyankar, Colin Sheppard, and Andrew Harris."Battery electric vehicles can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and make renewable energy cheaper in India." (2015).

Vitina, Aisma, Silke Lüers, Anna-Kathrin Wallasch, Volker Berkhout, Aidan Duffy, Brendan Cleary, Lief I. Husabø, David E. Weir, Roberto Lacal-Arántegui, M Maureen Hand, Eric Lantz, Kathy Belyeu, Ryan H. Wiser, Mark Bolinger, and Ben Hoen."IEA Wind Task 26: Wind Technology, Cost, and Performance Trends in Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Norway, the European Union, and the United States: 2007–2012." (2015).

Mills, Andrew D., and Ryan H. Wiser."Strategies to mitigate declines in the economic value of wind and solar at high penetration in California."Applied Energy 147 (2015) 269 - 278. DOI

Bolinger, Mark, and Edward Holt."A Survey of State and Local PV Program Response to Financial Innovation and Disparate Federal Tax Treatment in the Residential PV Sector." (2015).

Bolinger, Mark, Samantha Weaver, and Jarett Zuboy."Is $50/MWh Solar for Real? Falling Project Prices and Rising Capacity Factors Drive Utility-Scale PV Toward Economic Competitiveness."Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications (2015). DOI

Balakrishnan, Madhesan, Eric R. Sacia, Sanil Sreekumar, Gorkam Gunbas, Amit A. Gokhale, Corinne D. Scown, F. Dean Toste, and Alexis T. Bell."Novel pathways for fuels and lubricants from biomass optimized using life-cycle greenhouse gas assessment."Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2015) 201508274. DOI

Phadke, Amol A., Arne Jacobson, Won Young Park, Ga Rick Lee, Peter Alstone, and Amit Khare."Powering a Home with Just 25Watts of Solar PV: Super-Efficient Appliances Can Enable Expanded Off-Grid Energy Service Using Small Solar Power Systems." (2015).

Burkhardt, Jesse, Ryan H. Wiser, Naïm R. Darghouth, Changgui Dong, and Joshua Huneycutt."Exploring the impact of permitting and local regulatory processes on residential solar prices in the United States."Energy Policy 78 (2015) 102 - 112. DOI

Zinaman, Owen R., and Naïm R. Darghouth."A Valuation-Based Framework for Considering Distributed Generation Photovoltaic Tariff Design." India Smart Grid Week (2015).

Hoen, Ben, Sandra Adomatis, Thomas Jackson, Joshua Graff-Zivin, Mark A. Thayer, Geoffrey T. Klise, and Ryan H. Wiser."Selling Into the Sun: Price Premium Analysis of a Multi-State Dataset of Solar Homes." (2015).

2014

Hoen, Ben, Jason P Brown, Thomas Jackson, Mark A. Thayer, Ryan H. Wiser, and Peter Cappers."Spatial Hedonic Analysis of the Effects of US Wind Energy Facilities on Surrounding Property Values."The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics (2014). DOI

Gillingham, Kenneth, Hao Deng, Ryan H. Wiser, Naïm R. Darghouth, Gregory Nemet, Galen L. Barbose, Varun Rai, and Changgui Dong."Deconstructing Solar Photovoltaic Pricing: The Role of Market Structure, Technology and Policy." (2014).

Dong, Changgui, Ryan H. Wiser, and Varun Rai."Incentive Pass-through for Residential Solar Systems in California." (2014).