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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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2004

Fitzgerald, Garrett, Mark Bolinger, and Ryan H. Wiser."Low-Income Renewable Energy Programs: A Survey of State Clean Energy Funds."Case Studies of State Support for Renewable Energy (2004) 8.

Fitzgerald, Garrett, Ryan H. Wiser, Mark Bolinger, and Allison Schumacher."Northern Exposure: An Overview of Canadian Clean Energy Funds."Case Studies of State Support for Renewable Energy (2004) 13.

Edwards, Jennifer L., Ryan H. Wiser, Mark Bolinger, and Trudy Forsyth."Building a Market for Small Wind: The Break-Even Turnkey Cost of Residential Wind Systems in the United States." (2004) 18.

Wiser, Ryan H., Kevin Porter, and Robert Grace."Evaluating Experience with Renewables Portfolio Standards in the United States." (2004) 45.

Wiser, Ryan H.."Managing Natural Gas Price Volatility and Escalation: The Value of Renewable Energy."NEMS/AEO 2004 Conference Washington, D.C. March 23, 2004 (2004).

Bolinger, Mark."Renewable Energy: Vanquisher or Hapless Victim of High Natural Gas Prices?."NARUC 2004 Winter Committee Meetings (2004).

Wiser, Ryan H.."Renewables Portfolio Standards: What Are We Learning?."NARUC Winter Conference Washington, D.C. March 9, 2004 (2004).

Bolinger, Mark."A Survey of State Support for Community Wind Power Development."Case Studies of State Support for Renewable Energy (2004) 18.

Wiser, Ryan H., Scott Olson, Lori Bird, and Blair Swezey."Utility Green Pricing Programs: A Statistical Analysis of Program Effectiveness." (2004) 36.

Bolinger, Mark, Ryan H. Wiser, and William H. Golove."Accounting for Fuel Price Risk When Comparing Renewable to Gas-Fired Generation: The Role of Forward Natural Gas Prices." (2004) 28.

Goldman, Charles A., and Michael Kintner-Meyer."New York ISO 2002 Demand Response Programs: Evaluation Results."DOE Office of Electric Transmission and DistributionTransmission (2004).

Moezzi, Mithra M., Charles A. Goldman, Osman Sezgen, Ranjit Bharvirkar, and Nicole C. Hopper."Real Time Pricing and the Real Live Firm."2004 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2004).

2003

Fitzgerald, Garrett, Ryan H. Wiser, and Mark Bolinger."The Experience of State Clean Energy Funds with Tradable Renewable Certificates."Case Studies of State Support for Renewable Energy (2003) 13.

Fitzgerald, Garrett, Mark Bolinger, and Ryan H. Wiser."Green Buildings: The Expanding Role of State Clean Energy Funds."Case Studies of State Support for Renewable Energy (2003) 11.

Wiser, Ryan H.."Using Contingent Valuation to Explore Willingness to Pay for Renewable Energy: A Comparison of Collective and Voluntary Payment Vehicles." (2003) 160.

Bird, Lori, Brian Parsons, Troy Gagliano, Marilyn A. Brown, Ryan H. Wiser, and Mark Bolinger."Policies and Market Factors Driving Wind Power Development in the United States." (2003) 46.

Bolinger, Mark, and Ryan H. Wiser."Learning by Doing: The Evolution of State Support for Photovoltaics." (2003) 14.

Bachrach, Devra, Ryan H. Wiser, Mark Bolinger, and William H. Golove."Comparing the Risk Profiles of Renewable and Natural Gas Electricity Contracts: A Summary of the California Department of Water Resources Contracts." (2003) 108.

Golove, William H., Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, Doug Bushey, and Barbara Haya."ProForm: A Tool for Pre-Feasibility Analysis of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Projects." (2003).

2002

Grace, Robert, and Ryan H. Wiser."Transacting Generation Attributes Across Market Boundaries: Compatible Information Systems and the Treatment of Imports and Exports." (2002) 97.

Wiser, Ryan H., Mark Bolinger, and Troy Gagliano."Analyzing the Interaction Between State Tax Incentives and the Federal Production Tax Credit for Wind Power." (2002) 15.

Milford, Lewis."Competitive Solicitations and Unsolicited Proposals: Examples from Several State Funds on How to Balance and Refine the Process."Case Studies of State Support for Renewable Energy (2002) 7.

Bolinger, Mark, and Ryan H. Wiser."Information, Training, Education, Project Facilitation, and Technical Assistance in Wisconsin."Case Studies of State Support for Renewable Energy (2002) 5.

Wiser, Ryan H., Mark Bolinger, Lewis Milford, Kevin Porter, and Roger Clark."Innovation, Renewable Energy, and State Investment: Case Studies of Leading Clean Energy Funds." (2002) 144.

Porter, Kevin, Mark Bolinger, and Ryan H. Wiser."Massachusetts’ Green Buildings Program."Case Studies of State Support for Renewable Energy (2002) 8.