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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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2013

Hoen, Ben, Ryan H. Wiser, Mark A. Thayer, and Peter Cappers."Residential Photovoltaic Energy Systems in California: The Effect on Home Sales Prices."Contemporary Economic Policy 31.4 (2013) 708 - 718. DOI

Ly, Peter, George A. Ban-Weiss, Nathan Finch, Craig P. Wray, Mark de Ogburn, William W. Delp, Hashem Akbari, Scott Smaby, Ronnen M. Levinson, Bret Gean, and SEI Group Inc.."Building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) roofs for sustainability and energy efficiency." (2013) 156 pp..

Olsen, Daniel, Nance Matson, Michael D. Sohn, Cody Rose, Junqiao Han Dudley, Sasank Goli, Sila Kiliccote, Marissa Hummon, David Palchak, Paul Denholm, Jennie Jorgenson, and Ookie Ma."Grid Integration of Aggregated Demand Response, Part 1: Load Availability Profiles and Constraints for the Western Interconnection." (2013).

Feldman, David, Galen L. Barbose, Robert Margolis, Naïm R. Darghouth, Ted James, Samantha Weaver, Alan Goodrich, and Ryan H. Wiser."Photovoltaic System Pricing Trends: Historical, Recent, and Near-Term Projections - 2013 Edition." (2013).

Bolinger, Mark, and Samantha Weaver."Utility-Scale Solar 2012: An Empirical Analysis of Project Cost, Performance, and Pricing Trends in the United States." (2013).

Wiser, Ryan H., Mark Bolinger, Galen L. Barbose, Naïm R. Darghouth, Ben Hoen, Andrew D. Mills, Samantha Weaver, Kevin Porter, Michael Buckley, Sari Fink, Frank Oteri, and Suzanne Tegen."2012 Wind Technologies Market Report." (2013).

Hoen, Ben, Jason P Brown, Thomas Jackson, Ryan H. Wiser, Mark A. Thayer, and Peter Cappers."A Spatial Hedonic Analysis of the Effects of Wind Energy Facilities on Surrounding Property Values in the United States." (2013).

Barbose, Galen L., Naïm R. Darghouth, Samantha Weaver, and Ryan H. Wiser."Tracking the Sun VI: An Historical Summary of the Installed Price of Photovoltaics in the United States from 1998 to 2012." (2013).

Seel, Joachim, Galen L. Barbose, and Ryan H. Wiser."An Analysis of Residential PV System Price Differences Between the United States and Germany."39th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (2013). DOI

Breunig, Hanna, Jens T. Birkholzer, Andrea Borgia, Curtis M. Oldenburg, Phillip N. Price, and Thomas E. McKone."Regional evaluation of brine management for geologic carbon sequestration."International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control 14 (2013) 39 - 48. DOI

Seel, Joachim, Galen L. Barbose, and Ryan H. Wiser."An Analysis of Residential PV System Price Differences Between the United States and Germany."American Solar Energy Society Annual Meeting (2013).

Borgeson, Merrian, and Mark Zimring."Financing Energy Upgrades for K-12 School Districts: A Guide to Tapping into Funding for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Improvements." (2013).

Wiser, Ryan H., and Changgui Dong."The Impact of City-level Permitting Processes on Residential Photovoltaic Installation Prices and Development Times: An Empirical Analysis of Solar Systems in California Cities." (2013).

Dong, Changgui, and Ryan H. Wiser."The Impact of City-Level Permitting Processes on Residential PV Installation Prices and Development Times."American Solar Energy Society Annual Meeting (2013).

Deshmukh, Ranjit, Juan Pablo Carvallo, and Ashwin Gambhir."Sustainable Development of Renewable Energy Mini-grids for Energy Access: A Framework for Policy Design." (2013).

Mills, Andrew D., and Ryan H. Wiser."Changes in the Economic Value of Variable Generation at High Penetration Levels: A Pilot Case Study of California."18th Annual POWER Conference on Energy Research and Policy (2013).

Cappers, Peter, Jason S. MacDonald, and Charles A. Goldman."Market and Policy Barriers for Demand Response Providing Ancillary Services in U.S. Markets." (2013).

Bolinger, Mark."Revisiting the Long-Term Hedge Value of Wind Power in an Era of Low Natural Gas Prices." (2013).

Seel, Joachim, Galen L. Barbose, and Ryan H. Wiser."Why Are Residential PV Prices in Germany So Much Lower Than in the United States? A Scoping Analysis." (2013).

2012

MacDonald, Jason S., Peter Cappers, Duncan S. Callaway, and Sila Kiliccote."Demand Response Providing Ancillary Services A Comparison of Opportunities and Challenges in the US Wholesale Markets."Grid-Interop 2012 (2012).

Mills, Andrew D., and Ryan H. Wiser."An Evaluation of Solar Valuation Methods Used in Utility Planning and Procurement Processes." (2012).

Zhai, Pei, Peter H. Larsen, Dev Millstein, Surabi Menon, and Eric R. Masanet."Avoided emissions from high penetration of photovoltaic electricity in the United States."Energy 47.1 (2012). DOI

Ardani, Kristen, Galen L. Barbose, Robert Margolis, Ryan H. Wiser, David Feldman, and Sean Ong."Benchmarking Non-Hardware Balance of System (Soft) Costs for U.S. Photovoltaic Systems Using a Data-Driven Analysis from PV Installer Survey Results." (2012).

Brown, Jason P, John Pender, Ryan H. Wiser, Eric Lantz, and Ben Hoen."Ex Post Analysis of Economic Impacts from Wind Power Development in U.S. Counties."Energy Economics 34.6 (2012). DOI

Feldman, David, Galen L. Barbose, Robert Margolis, Ryan H. Wiser, Naïm R. Darghouth, and Alan Goodrich."Photovoltaic (PV) Pricing Trends: Historical, Recent, and Near-Term Projections." (2012).