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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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2006

Holt, Edward, Ryan H. Wiser, and Mark Bolinger."Who Owns Renewable Energy Certificates? An Exploration of Policy Options and Practice." (2006) 71.

Wiser, Ryan H., and Mark Bolinger."Federal Tax Incentives for PV Potential Implications for Program Design."California Public Utilities Commission San Francisco, California March 16, 2006 (2006).

Wiser, Ryan H.."Meeting Expectations: A Review of State Experience with RPS Policies." (2006).

Barbose, Galen L., Charles A. Goldman, Ranjit Bharvirkar, Nicole C. Hopper, Michael K. Ting, and Bernard Neenan."Real Time Pricing as a Default or Optional Service for Commercial and Industrial Customers: A Comparative Analysis of Eight Case Studies." (2006).

Barbose, Galen L., Ryan H. Wiser, and Mark Bolinger."Supporting Photovoltaics in Market-Rate Residential New Construction: A Summary of Programmatic Experience to Date and Lessons Learned." (2006) 30.

Wiser, Ryan H., Mark Bolinger, Peter Cappers, and Robert Margolis."Letting the Sun Shine on Solar Costs: An Empirical Investigation of Photovoltaic Cost Trends in California." (2006) 67.

Violette, , Daniel."Development of a Comprehensive / Integrated DR Value Framework." (2006).

Braithwait, Steven D., David Hansen, and Laurence Kirsch."Incentives and Rate Designs for Efficiency and Demand Response." (2006).

Barbose, Galen L., Ranjit Bharvirkar, Charles A. Goldman, Nicole C. Hopper, and Bernard Neenan."Killing Two Birds with One Stone: Can Real-Time Pricing Support Retail Competition and Demand Response?."2006 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2006).

Orans, Ren, and Inc. Energy and Environmental Economics."Phase 1 Results: Establish the Value of Demand Response." (2006).

2005

Lewis, Joanna I., and Ryan H. Wiser."Fostering a Renewable Energy Technology Industry: An International Comparison of Wind Industry Policy Support Mechanisms." (2005) 30.

Bolinger, Mark, and Ryan H. Wiser."Balancing Cost and Risk: The Treatment of Renewable Energy in Western Utility Resource Plans." (2005) 100.

Wiser, Ryan H., Mark Bolinger, Kevin Porter, and Heather Raitt."Does It Have To Be This Hard? Implementing the Nation’s Most Aggressive Renewables Portfolio Standard in California." (2005) 20.

van der Linden, Nico H., Martine A. Uyterlinde, Christiaan Vrolijk, Lars J. Nilsson, Jamil Khan, Kerstin Åstrand, Karin Ericsson, and Ryan H. Wiser."Review of International Experience with Renewable Energy Obligation Support Mechanisms." (2005) 71.

Siddiqui, Afzal S., Chris Marnay, and Ryan H. Wiser."Real Options Valuation of US Federal Renewable Energy Research, Development, Demonstration, and Deployment." (2005) 45.

Group, Electricity Markets and Policy."A Comparative Summary of State and Utility PV Buy Down Programs."Case Studies of State Support for Renewable Energy (2005).

Wiser, Ryan H., Mark Bolinger, and Matt St. Clair."Easing the Natural Gas Crisis: Reducing Natural Gas Prices through Increased Deployment of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency." (2005) 64.

2004

Edwards, Jennifer L., Ryan H. Wiser, and Mark Bolinger."Evaluating State Markets for Residential Wind Systems: Results from an Economic and Policy Analysis Tool." (2004) 102.

Bolinger, Mark, and Ryan H. Wiser."A Comparative Analysis of Business Structures Suitable for Farmer-Owned Wind Power Projects in the United States." (2004) 31.

Fleten, Stein-Erik, and Karl M. Maribu."Investment Timing and Capacity Choice for Small-Scale Wind Power Under Uncertainty." (2004) 8.

Wiser, Ryan H., and Mark Bolinger."An Overview of Alternative Fossil Fuel Price and Carbon Regulation Scenarios." (2004) 37.

Golove, William H., Richard E. Brown, and Edward Holt."Guide to Purchasing Green Power: Renewable Electricity, Renewable Energy Certificates and On-Site Renewable Generation." (2004).

Moezzi, Mithra M., Charles A. Goldman, Osman Sezgen, Ranjit Bharvirkar, and Nicole C. Hopper."Real Time Pricing and the Real Live Firm." (2004) 16.

Fitzgerald, Garrett, Mark Bolinger, and Ryan H. Wiser."A Survey of State Clean Energy Fund Support for Biomass." (2004) 23.

Goldman, Charles A., Nicole C. Hopper, Osman Sezgen, Mithra M. Moezzi, Ranjit Bharvirkar, Bernard Neenan, Richard Boisvert, Peter Cappers, and Donna Pratt."Customer Response to Day-ahead Wholesale Market Electricity Prices: Case Study of RTP Program Experience in New York."Consultant Report prepared for the California Energy Commission (2004) 208.