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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) 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

Frick, Natalie Mims."Considering the time and locational value of efficiency in electricity planning." (2023).

Pereira, Guillermo, Lisa C Schwartz, and Natalie Mims Frick."Using Energy Efficiency to Help Meet Distribution System Capacity Needs." (2023).

2022

Pigman, Margaret, Natalie Mims Frick, Eric Wilson, Andrew Parker, and Elaina Present."End-Use Load Profiles for the U.S. Building Stock: Practical Guidance on Accessing and Using the Data." (2022).

Schwartz, Lisa C, David Nemtzow, and Natalie Mims Frick."How to Build a Connected Community: Policies to Promote Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings and Demand Flexibility."2022 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022).

Nemtzow, David, Cynthia Regnier, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Natalie Mims Frick, and Jason S MacDonald."If One GEB is Good, a Community of GEBs is Better."2022 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022).

Frick, Natalie Mims, Juan Pablo Carvallo, and Margaret Pigman."Time-Sensitive Value Calculator." (2022).

2021

Schwartz, Lisa C, Cesca Miller, Sean Murphy, and Natalie Mims Frick."State Indicators for Advancing Demand Flexibility and Energy Efficiency in Buildings." (2021).

Homer, Juliet, Tom McDermott, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Cesca Miller, Jeremy Twitchell, Natalie Mims Frick, John Fazio, Robert Lempert, and Rui Yang."Integrated Distribution System Planning Training: Innovations in Electricity Modeling." (2021).

Murphy, Sean, Jeff Deason, and Andrew Satchwell."Timed to save: the added value of accounting for hourly incidence of electricity savings from residential space-conditioning measures."Energy Efficiency (2021). DOI

Frick, Natalie Mims, and Elaina Present."End-Use Load Profiles update: CEE 2021 Summer Program Meeting." (2021).

Frick, Natalie Mims, Elaina Present, Eric Wilson, Anthony Fontanini, Andrew Parker, and Janet Reyna."End-Use Load Profiles for the U.S. Building Stock - Technical Advisory Group presentations." (2021).

Woolf, Tim, Ben Havumaki, Divita Bhandari, Melissa Whited, and Lisa C Schwartz."Benefit-Cost Analysis for Utility-Facing Grid Modernization Investments: Trends, Challenges, and Considerations." (2021).

Frick, Natalie Mims, Snuller Price, Lisa C Schwartz, Nichole L Hanus, and Ben Shapiro."Locational Value of Distributed Energy Resources." (2021).

Dalton, Patrick, Mary Ann Piette, Paul De Martini, Fritz Kahrl, Jeremy Twitchell, and Andrew D Mills."Western States Training Webinars on Integrated Distribution System Planning." (2021).

2020

Schneider, Kevin, Emma Stuart, Patrick Dalton, Rois Langner, Jeffrey Taft, Paul De Martini, Debra Lew, Fritz Kahrl, Lisa C Schwartz, Juliet Homer, Cesca Miller, Matt Leach, Natalie Mims Frick, Jeremy Twitchell, Andrew D Mills, Doug Black, Jason S MacDonald, and Michael Kintner-Meyer."Integrated Distribution System Planning training for the Midwest/MISO region." (2020).

Schiller, Steven R, Lisa C Schwartz, and Sean Murphy."Performance Assessments of Demand Flexibility from Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings: Issues and Considerations." (2020).

Eckman, Tom, Lisa C Schwartz, and Natalie Mims Frick."Economic Valuation of Energy Resources: Technical Assistance Opportunity for States on Enhanced Methods to Assess Utility System Value of Demand Flexibility." (2020).

Eckman, Tom, Lisa C Schwartz, and Greg Leventis."Determining Utility System Value of Demand Flexibility From Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings." (2020).

Schwartz, Lisa C, and Greg Leventis."Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings: An Introduction for State and Local Governments." (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).

2019

Frick, Natalie Mims, Eric Wilson, Janet Reyna, Andrew Parker, Elaina Present, Janghyun Kim, Tianzhen Hong, Han Li, and Tom Eckman."End-Use Load Profiles for the U.S. Building Stock: Market Needs, Use Cases, and Data Gaps." (2019).

Frick, Natalie Mims, Ian M Hoffman, Charles A Goldman, Greg Leventis, Sean Murphy, and Lisa C Schwartz."Peak Demand Impacts From Electricity Efficiency Programs." (2019).

Frick, Natalie Mims, and Lisa C Schwartz."Time-Sensitive Value of Efficiency: Use Cases in Electricity Sector Planning and Programs." (2019).

Frick, Natalie Mims."End Use Load Profile Inventory." (2019).

Schwartz, Lisa C, and Natalie Mims Frick."Evolving Approaches to Electricity System Planning." (2019).