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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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2020

Mills, Andrew D., Ryan H. Wiser, Dev Millstein, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Will Gorman, Joachim Seel, and Seongeun Jeong."The impact of wind, solar, and other factors on the decline in wholesale power prices in the United States."Applied Energy (2020). DOI

Duffy, Aidan, Maureen Hand, Ryan H. Wiser, Eric Lantz, Alberto Dalla Riva, Volker Berkhout, Maria Stenkvist, David E. Weir, and Roberto Lacal-Arántegui."Land-based wind energy cost trends in Germany, Denmark, Ireland, Norway, Sweden and the United States."Applied Energy 277 (2020). DOI

Millstein, Dev, Patrick Dobson, and Seongeun Jeong."The Potential to Improve the Value of U.S. Geothermal Electricity Generation Through Flexible Operations."Journal of Energy Resources Technology 413 (2020). DOI

Mills, Andrew D., and Pía Rodriguez."A simple and fast algorithm for estimating the capacity credit of solar and storage."Energy 210 (2020). DOI

Bolinger, Mark, Joachim Seel, Dana Robson, and Cody Warner."Utility-Scale Solar Data Update: 2020 Edition." (2020).

Dobson, Patrick, Dipankar Dwivedi, Dev Millstein, Nandini Krishnaswamy, Julio Garcia, and Mariam Kiran."Analysis of curtailment at The Geysers geothermal Field, California."Geothermics 87 (2020) 101871. DOI

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

O'Shaughnessy, Eric, Galen L. Barbose, and Ryan H. Wiser."Patience is a virtue: A data-driven analysis of rooftop solar PV permitting timelines in the United States."Energy Policy 144 (2020). DOI

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

Wiser, Ryan H., Mark Bolinger, Ben Hoen, Dev Millstein, Joseph Rand, Galen L. Barbose, Naïm R. Darghouth, Will Gorman, Seongeun Jeong, Andrew D. Mills, and Bentham Paulos."Wind Energy Technology Data Update: 2020 Edition." (2020).

Wiser, Ryan H., Dev Millstein, Mark Bolinger, Seongeun Jeong, and Andrew D. Mills."The hidden value of large-rotor, tall-tower wind turbines in the United States."Wind Engineering (2020). DOI

Wiser, Ryan H., Mark Bolinger, Will Gorman, Joseph Rand, Seongeun Jeong, Joachim Seel, Cody Warner, and Bentham Paulos."Hybrid Power Plants: Status of Installed and Proposed Projects." (2020).

Bolinger, Mark, Will Gorman, Dev Millstein, and Dirk C. Jordan."System-level performance and degradation of 21 GW-DC of utility-scale PV plants in the United States."Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy 12.4 (2020). DOI

Wiser, Ryan H., Mark Bolinger, and Joachim Seel."Benchmarking Utility-Scale PV Operational Expenses and Project Lifetimes: Results from a Survey of U.S. Solar Industry Professionals." (2020).

Seel, Joachim, Andrew D. Mills, Cody Warner, Bentham Paulos, and Ryan H. Wiser."Impacts of High Variable Renewable Energy Futures on Electric-Sector Decision Making: Demand-Side Effects." (2020).

Hamilton, Sofia D., Dev Millstein, Mark Bolinger, Ryan H. Wiser, and Seongeun Jeong."How Does Wind Project Performance Change with Age in the United States?."Joule 4 (2020) 1-17. DOI

Wiser, Ryan H., and Dev Millstein."Evaluating the economic return to public wind energy research and development in the United States."Applied Energy 261 (2020). DOI

Gorman, Will, Andrew D. Mills, Mark Bolinger, Ryan H. Wiser, Nikita G. Singhal, Erik Ela, and Eric O'Shaughnessy."Motivations and options for deploying hybrid generator-plus-battery projects within the bulk power system."The Electricity Journal 33.5 (2020). DOI

Darghouth, Naïm R., James McCall, David Keyser, and Alexandra Aznar."Distributed Photovoltaic Economic Impact Analysis in Indonesia." (2020).

Barbose, Galen L., Sydney Forrester, Naïm R. Darghouth, and Ben Hoen."Income Trends among U.S. Residential Rooftop Solar Adopters." (2020).

Rand, Joseph, Louisa Kramer, Christopher Garrity, Ben Hoen, James Diffendorfer, Hannah Hunt, and Michael Spears."A continuously updated, geospatially rectified database of utility-scale wind turbines in the United States."Scientific Data 7.15 (2020). DOI

Abhyankar, Nikit, Jiang Lin, Xu Liu, and Froylan Sifuentes."Economic and environmental benefits of market-based power-system reform in China: A case study of the Southern grid system."Resources, Conservation and Recycling 153 (2020) 104558. DOI

Wang, Meina, Paul Ullrich, and Dev Millstein."Future projections of wind patterns in California with the variable-resolution CESM: a clustering analysis approach."Climate Dynamics 54.3-4 (2020) 2511 - 2531. DOI

Bolinger, Mark, Eric Lantz, Ryan H. Wiser, Ben Hoen, Joseph Rand, and Robert Hammond."Opportunities for and Challenges to Further Reductions in the “Specific Power” Rating of Wind Turbines Installed in the United States."Wind Engineering (2020). DOI

He, Gang, Jiang Lin, Froylan Sifuentes, Xu Liu, Nikit Abhyankar, and Amol A. Phadke."Rapid cost decrease of renewables and storage accelerates the decarbonization of China’s power system."Nature Communications 11.1 (2020). DOI