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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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2008

Barbose, Galen L., Ryan H. Wiser, Amol A. Phadke, and Charles A. Goldman."Reading the Tea Leaves: How Utilities in the West Are Managing Carbon Regulatory Risk in their Resource Plans." (2008) 80.

2006

Hopper, Nicole C., Charles A. Goldman, and Jeff Schlegel."Energy Efficiency in Western Utility Resource Plans: Impacts on Regional Resource Assessment and Support for WGA Policies." (2006) 68.

2005

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

2004

Lesieutre, Bernard, Emily S. Bartholomew, Joseph H Eto, Douglas R. Hale, and Thanh Luong."The Potential Impacts of a Competitive Wholesale Market in the Midwest: A Preliminary Examination of Centralized Dispatch." (2004) 75.

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.

1998

Golove, William H., Charles A. Goldman, and Steven J. Pickle."Purchasing Energy and Related Services in a Restructured Electricity Industry." (1998) 11.

Stoft, Steven, Timothy N Belden, Charles A. Goldman, and Steven J. Pickle."Primer on Electricity Futures and Other Derivatives." (1998) 84.

Golove, William H., Charles A. Goldman, and Steven J. Pickle."Purchasing Power and Related Services: A Window into Customer Preferences." (1998) 7.

1997

Pagliano, Lorenzo, Joseph H Eto, and Roberto Caponio."The Restructuring of the Italian Electricity Sector: Proposals for the Inclusion of Objectives for Increased Energy Efficiency and Renewables Exploitation."European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ECEEE) 1997 Summer Study (1997).

1995

Pagliano, Lorenzo, Angelica Tudini, Joseph H Eto, and Roberto Caponio."Current Trends for Italian National and Local Power Companies: Prospects for Integrated Resource Planning."1995 International Energy Program Evaluation Conference (1995).

1994

Akbari, Hashem, Joseph H Eto, Steven J. Konopacki, Asim Afzal, Kristin E. Heinemeier, and Leo I. Rainer."A New Approach to Estimate Commercial Sector End-Use Load Shapes and Energy Use Intensities."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 1994 (1994).

Eto, Joseph H, Marco Marengo, and Lorenzo Pagliano."Uso Efficiente dell’Energia Come Risorsa Energetica: Concetti e Metodologie della Pianificazione Integrata delle Risorse."Economia delle Fonti di Energia e dell'Ambiente 2 (1994).

1993

Eto, Joseph H, and Mithra M. Moezzi."Analysis of PG&E's Residential End-Use Metered Data to Improve Electricity Demand Forecasts - Final Report." (1993) 150.

Akbari, Hashem, Joseph H Eto, Steven J. Konopacki, Asim Afzal, Kristin E. Heinemeier, and Leo I. Rainer."Integrated Estimation of Commerical Sector End-Use Load Shapes and Energy Use Intensities in the PG&E Service Area." (1993).

Eto, Joseph H, and Mithra M. Moezzi."A Technique for Transferring Central Air Conditioning End-Use Load Shape Data."CEED Electric End-Use Data Symposium (1993) 21.

Nadel, Steven M., Jennifer Jordon, Joseph H Eto, and Maxwell Kelley."Gas DSM - Opportunities and Experiences."Sixth National Demand-side Management Conference - Making a Difference (1993).

1992

Moezzi, Mithra M., Joseph H Eto, Martha Brook, and William Mattson."Improving Electricity Peak Demand Forecasts with Measured Data: An Application of PG&E's Residential End-Use Metered Data."ACEEE 1992 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (1992).

Eto, Joseph H, and Mithra M. Moezzi."Analysis of PG&E's Residential End-Use Metered Data to Improve Electricity Demand Forecasts." (1992) 161.

1991

Eto, Joseph H, and Florentin Krause."Least-Cost Planning Handbook: Planowawanie Wedlug Najmniejszych Koztow." (1991).

Eto, Joseph H, Hashem Akbari, Robert G. Pratt, Steven D. Braithwait, Edward L. Vine, and Drury B. Crawley."End-Use Load Shape Data Application, Estimation, and Collection."State of the Art of Energy Efficiency: Future Directions (1991) 16.

Hirst, Eric, Martin Schweitzer, Evelin Yourstone, and Joseph H Eto."Technical Competence of Integrated Resource Plans Prepared by Electric Utilities."Resources and Energy 13.1 (1991). DOI

di Conti, Flavio, and Joseph H Eto."Meccanismi di Mercato e Internalizzazione delle Diseconomie Ambientali."Energia 3 (1991).

Hirst, Eric, and Charles A. Goldman."Creating the Future: Integrated Resource Planning for Electric Utilities."Annual Review of Energy 16 (1991) 31.

Akbari, Hashem, Leo I. Rainer, and Joseph H Eto."Integrated Estimation of Commercial Sector End-Use Load Shapes and Energy Use Intensities, Phase II." (1991).

1990

Eto, Joseph H."An Overview of Analysis Tools for Integrated Resource Planning."Energy 15.11 (1990). DOI