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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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2024

Gilbert, Ben, Ben Hoen, and Hannah Gagarin."Distributional Equity in the Employment and Wage Impacts of Energy Transitions."Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 11 (2024).

Kahrl, Fredrich, Jennie Jorgenson, James Hyungkwan Kim, Lawryn Kiboma, Dev Millstein, Natalie Mims Frick, and Brian Sergi."Solar and Wind Forecast Error Reserve Sharing in a Multi-Utility Region." (2024).

Seel, Joachim, Julie Mulvaney Kemp, Anna Cheyette, Dev Millstein, Will Gorman, Seongeun Jeong, Dana Robson, Rachman Setiawan, and Mark Bolinger."Utility-Scale Solar, 2024 Edition: Empirical Trends in Deployment, Technology, Cost, Performance, PPA Pricing, and Value in the United States." (2024).

Gorman, Will, Joseph Rand, Nick Manderlink, Anna Cheyette, Mark Bolinger, Joachim Seel, Seongeun Jeong, and Ryan H Wiser."Hybrid Power Plants: Status of Operating and Proposed Plants, 2024 Edition." (2024).

Kahrl, Fredrich, Jennie Jorgenson, Lawryn Kiboma, James Hyungkwan Kim, Dev Millstein, Brian Sergi, and Natalie Mims Frick."Solar and Storage Integration in the Southeastern United States: Economics, Reliability, and Operations." (2024).

Barbose, Galen L."U.S. State Renewables Portfolio & Clean Electricity Standards: 2024 Status Update." (2024).

Fujita, K Sydny, Zach Ancona, Louisa Kramer, James Diffendorfer, Mary Straka, Tandie E Gautreau, Dana Robson, Ben Hoen, and Chris Garrity."US Large-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Database Files." (2024).

Millstein, Dev, Eric O'Shaughnessy, and Ryan H Wiser."Exploring Wholesale Energy Price Trends: The Renewables and Wholesale Electricity Prices (ReWEP) tool, Version 2024.1." (2024).

Kahrl, Fritz, and Jiang Lin."Changing economics of China’s power system suggest that batteries and renewables may be a lower cost way to meet peak demand growth than coal."iScience 27.2 (2024). DOI

Bessette, Douglas L, Ben Hoen, Joseph Rand, Karl Hoesch, Jacob White, Sarah B Mills, and Robi Nilson."Good fences make good neighbors: Stakeholder perspectives on the local benefits and burdens of large-scale solar energy development in the United States."Energy Research & Social Science 108 (2024). DOI

Peng, Liqun, Gang He, and Jiang Lin."Role of Pumped Hydro Storage in China’s Power System Transition." (2024).

Nilson, Robi, Ben Hoen, and Joseph Rand."Survey of Utility-Scale Wind and Solar Developers Report." (2024).

Simley, Eric, Dev Millstein, Seongeun Jeong, and Paul Fleming."The value of wake steering wind farm flow control in US energy markets."Wind Energy Science 9.1 (2024). DOI

2023

Millstein, Dev, Seongeun Jeong, Amos Ancell, and Ryan H Wiser."A database of hourly wind speed and modeled generation for US wind plants based on three meteorological models."Scientific Data 10 (2023). DOI

Brunner, Eric, Ben Hoen, Joseph Rand, and David Schwegman."Commercial Wind Turbines and Residential Home Values: New Evidence from the Universe of Land-Based Wind Projects in the United States."Energy Policy (2023). DOI

Fujita, K Sydny, Zach Ancona, Louisa Kramer, James Diffendorfer, Mary Straka, Tandie E Gautreau, Dana Robson, Ben Hoen, and Chris Garrity."Georectified polygon database of ground-mounted large-scale solar photovoltaic sites in the United States."Scientific Data (2023). DOI

Abhyankar, Nikit, Umed Paliwal, Michael O’Boyle, Michelle Solomon, Jeremy Fisher, and Amol A Phadke."A new era for rural electric cooperatives: New clean energy investments, supported by federal incentives, will reduce rates, emissions, and reliance on outside power."The Electricity Journal 36.8 (2023). DOI

Bolinger, Mark, Joachim Seel, Julie Mulvaney Kemp, Cody Warner, Anjali Katta, and Dana Robson."Utility-Scale Solar, 2023 Edition: Empirical Trends in Deployment, Technology, Cost, Performance, PPA Pricing, and Value in the United States." (2023).

Bolinger, Mark, Will Gorman, Joseph Rand, and Seongeun Jeong."Hybrid Power Plants: Status of Operating and Proposed Plants, 2023 Edition." (2023).

Abhyankar, Nikit, Priyanka Mohanty, Shruti M Deorah, Nihan Karali, Umed Paliwal, Jessica Kersey, and Amol A Phadke."India’s path towards energy independence and a clean future: Harnessing India's renewable edge for cost-effective energy independence by 2047."The Electricity Journal 36.5 (2023). DOI

Bolinger, Mark, and Bentham Paulos."Revisiting Community Wind Through the Lens of Community Solar." (2023).

2022

Bistline, John, Nikit Abhyankar, Geoffrey Blanford, Leon Clarke, Rachel Fakhry, Haewon McJeon, John Reilly, Christopher Roney, Tom Wilson, Mei Yuan, and Alicia Zhao."Actions for reducing US emissions at least 50% by 2030."Science 376.6596 (2022) 922 - 924. DOI

Khandekar, Aditya, Shruti M Deorah, and Nikit Abhyankar."Feasibility and Impact of Biomass and Renewable Energy Hybrid Systems." (2022).

Millstein, Dev, Mark Bolinger, and Ryan H Wiser."What can surface wind observations tell us about interannual variation in wind energy output?."Wind Energy (2022). DOI