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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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2023

Pastor, Angela Ortega, Ashley Books, Naïm R. Darghouth, and Dan Gaspar."COP28 Outcomes Report." (2023).

Forrester, Sydney, and Andrew Satchwell."Developing an Equity Framework for State Regulatory Decision-Making." (2023).

Frick, Natalie Mims, Allison Campbell, Brittany Tarufelli, Elaine Hale, Aven Satre-Meloy, Christine A. Holland, and Ashok Sekar."Developing Forecasts: Basics & Best Practices." (2023).

2022

De Martini, Paul, Alan Cooke, Fredrich Kahrl, Lavelle Freeman, Juan Martinez, Elton Prifti, Kim Cullen, Jody Londo, Tim Woolf, Rebecca O'Neil, Dan Boff, Xiangqi Zhu, Seemita Pal, Ron Melton, Lisa C. Schwartz, Natalie Mims Frick, and Juliet Homer."New England PUCs training on electricity system planning." (2022).

2021

Kahrl, Fredrich, Shruti M. Deorah, Lakshmi Alagappan, Paul M. Sotkiewicz, and Nikit Abhyankar."Policy and Regulatory Recommendations to Support a Least-Cost Pathway for India’s Power Sector." (2021).

Miller, Cesca, Natalie Mims Frick, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Tom Eckman, and Lisa C. Schwartz."Utility-Scale and Distributed Storage in Integrated Resource Plans: A Comparison of Plans for Indiana and Other States." (2021).

Eckman, Tom, Natalie Mims Frick, Lisa C. Schwartz, Jeremy Twitchell, and Alan Cooke."Integrated Resource Planning Training for the South Carolina Office of Regulatory Staff." (2021).

2020

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Myles T. Collins, Stephanie Bieler, Joscha Mueller, Christoph Gehbauer, and Peter H. Larsen."Indiana 21st Century Energy Policy: Emerging Technologies on the Electricity Distribution System." (2020).

De Martini, , Paul, Kevin Schneider, Emma M. Stewart, Barry Mather, Michael Coddington, Joseph H Eto, Benjamin Sigrin, Natalie Mims Frick, Joe Paladino, Lavelle Freeman, Debra Lew, Fritz Kahrl, and Lisa C. Schwartz."Southeast Regional Training on Distribution Systems & Planning." (2020).

2017

Frick, Natalie Mims, Tom Eckman, and Andrew Satchwell."Integrated Resource Planning: Technical Assistance to the Michigan Public Service Commission." (2017).

2015

Yin, Rongxin, Girish Ghatikar, Ranjit Deshmukh, and Aamir Hussain Khan."Findings from an Advanced Demand Response Smart Grid Project to Improve Electricity Reliability in India."India Smart Grid Week 2015 (2015).

2006

Sathaye, Jayant A., Stephane de la Rue du Can, Satish Kumar, Maithili Iyer, Christina Galitsky, Amol A. Phadke, Michael A. McNeil, Lynn K. Price, Ranjit Bharvirkar, and Srinivasan Padmanabhan."Implementing End-use Efficiency Improvements in India: Drawing from Experience in the US and Other Countries." (2006).

1993

Goldman, Charles A., G. Alan Comnes, John F. Busch, and Stephen Wiel."Primer on Gas Integrated Resource Planning." (1993) 349.

1991

Goldman, Charles A., and Mary Ellen Hopkins."Survey and Analysis of State Regulatory Activities on Least Cost Planning for Gas Utilities." (1991) 194.

1990

Cohen, Samuel D., Joseph H Eto, Charles A. Goldman, John A. Beldock, and Geoffrey Crandall."Environmental externalities: What state regulators are doing."The Electricity Journal 3.6 (1990). DOI

Cohen, Samuel D., Joseph H Eto, Charles A. Goldman, John A. Beldock, and Geoffrey Crandall."A Survey of State PUC Activities to Incorporate Environmental Externalities into Electric Utility Planning and Regulation." (1990) 110.

1989

Goldman, Charles A., and Edward P Kahn."Comparative Assessment of the Demand-Side Management Plans of Four New York Utilities."Energy 14.10 (1989) 14. DOI