Energy Technologies Area

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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 scientific challenges 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.
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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

Frick, Natalie Mims, Sunhee Baik, Mark Bolinger, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Cesca Miller, Dev Millstein, Sean Murphy, Margaret Pigman, and Lisa C Schwartz."Consumer Benefits of Clean Energy: Policy Brief." (2024).

Baik, Sunhee, Cesca Miller, and Juan Pablo Carvallo."Consumer Benefits of Clean Energy: The resilience value of residential solar + storage systems in the continental U.S.." (2024).

Pigman, Margaret, Dev Millstein, Natalie Mims Frick, Wanya Chan, and William W Delp."Consumer Impacts of Clean Energy: Climate and health benefits from electrifying residential space and water heating." (2024).

Frick, Natalie Mims, Sean Murphy, Dimitra Cappers, and Portia Awuah."Consumer Impacts of Clean Energy: Energy Efficiency." (2024).

Bolinger, Mark, Natalie Mims Frick, and Ryan H Wiser."Consumer Impacts of Clean Energy: Renewable Energy." (2024).

Schwartz, Lisa C, Natalie Mims Frick, Margot Everett, Chris Lawrie, Cody Davis, Nancy Ryan, Andrew Satchwell, and Grace Relf."Integrated Distribution System Planning 2.0: Planning for Electrification and Distributed Energy Resources." (2024).

Jin, Ling, Xiaodan Xu, Yuhan Wang, Alina Lazar, Kaveh Farokhi Sadabadi, C Anna Spurlock, Zachary Needell, Duleep Rathgamage Don, Mahyar Amirgholy, and Mona Asudegi."Macroscopic Traffic Modeling Using Probe Vehicle Data: A Machine Learning Approach."Data Science for Transportation 6.3 (2024). DOI

Forrester, Sydney, Galen L Barbose, Eric O'Shaughnessy, and Naïm R Darghouth."Residential Solar-Adopter Income and Demographic Trends: 2024 Update." (2024).

Khanna, Nina, Jiang Lin, Xu Liu, and Wenjun Wang."An assessment of China’s methane mitigation potential and costs and uncertainties through 2060."Nature Communications 15 (2024).

Biewald, Bruce, Devi Glick, Shelley Kwok, Juan Pablo Carvallo, and Lisa C Schwartz."Best Practices in Integrated Resource Planning: A guide for planners developing the electricity resource mix of the future." (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).

Hoen, Ben, James Diffendorfer, Joseph Rand, Louisa Kramer, Chris Garrity, and Hannah Hunt."US Wind Turbine Database Files." (2024). DOI

Gorman, Will, Galen L Barbose, Sunhee Baik, Cesca Miller, and Juan Pablo Carvallo."Bill Savings vs. Backup Power: Evaluating operational tradeoffs for home solar+storage systems." (2024).

Browne, Axel, David Butts, Edgar Jaramillo-Rodriguez, Nidhi Parikh, Geoffrey Fairchild, Zachary Needell, Cristian Poliziani, Thomas P Wenzel, Timothy C Germann, and Sara Del Valle."Evaluating disease surveillance strategies for early outbreak detection in contact networks with varying community structure."Social Networks 79 (2024) 122 - 132. DOI

Kim, James Hyungkwan, Dev Millstein, Ryan H Wiser, and Julie Mulvaney Kemp."Renewable-Battery Hybrid Power Plants in Congested Electricity Markets: Implications for Plant Configuration."Renewable Energy 232 (2024). DOI

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).

Schwartz, Lisa C, Myles T Collins, Tim Woolf, and Courtney Lane."Best Practices Guide for Benefit-Cost Analysis of Managed EV Charging." (2024).

Nordahl, Sarah L, Rebecca J Hanes, Kimberley K Mayfield, Corey Myers, Sarah E Baker, and Corinne D Scown."Carbon accounting for carbon dioxide removal."One Earth 7.9 (2024) 1494-1500. DOI

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).

Pereira, Guillermo, and Lisa C Schwartz."Integrated Distribution System Planning." (2024).

Bracho, Riccardo, Julie Doherty Kowalski, Nina Khanna, Virginie E Letschert, Nicholas DeForest, Rongxin Lin, Keith Kline, Sara Lechtenberg-Kasten, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Loreta Lancellotti, Natalie Kempkey, and Mijal Brady Berkowitz."Leadership and Community Engagement in Chile: Deploying Net-Zero Technologies and Solutions." (2024).

Breunig, Hanna, Patricia Fox, Jeremy Domen, R Kumar, Ricardo Jorge Eloy Alves, Kateryna Zhalnina, Anne Voigtländer, Hang Deng, Bhavna Arora, and Peter Nico."Life cycle impact and cost analysis of quarry materials for land-based enhanced weathering in Northern California."Journal of Cleaner Production (2024) 143757. DOI

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).

Pereira, Guillermo, Cynthia Regnier, Lazlo Paul, Marco Pritoni, and Cecilia Johnson."Bringing demand flexibility to market: Insight on emerging business models from U.S. projects." (2024).