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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 improving the country's aging electrical grid and innovating distributed energy and storage solutions; developing grid-integrated building systems; 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 increasing reliability are key to the foundation of our research, which is driven by techno-economic analysis and in-lab experimentation and discovery.

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2025

Seel, Joachim, Dev Millstein, and Julie Mulvaney Kemp."Empirical Indicators of Transmission Value in the Southeast United States." (2025).

Collins, Myles T, and Lisa C Schwartz."Grid Resilience Planning for Extreme Cold and Ice Storms: Midwestern Region Training for Public Utility Commissions and State Energy Offices." (2025).

Wiser, Ryan H, Dev Millstein, Ben Hoen, Will Gorman, Joseph Rand, Joachim Seel, Galen L Barbose, Anna Cheyette, Naïm R Darghouth, Seongeun Jeong, Julie Mulvaney Kemp, Eric O'Shaughnessy, and Bentham Paulos."Land-Based Wind Energy Technology Update: 2025 Edition." (2025).

Chelminski, Kathryn, Lisa C Schwartz, Jeff Thomas, Juan Martinez, and Schuyler Matteson."Promoting Economic Efficiency in Interconnection–Part 1: Coordination Between Interconnection and Grid Planning." (2025).

Barbose, Galen L."U.S. State Electricity Resource Standards: 2025 Data Update." (2025).

Schiller, Steven R, and Myles T Collins."DOE Energy Innovator Fellows Informational Webinar: Program Design and Evaluation." (2025).

Smith, Sarah Josephine, Marius Stuebs, Samanvitha Murthy, Sunhee Baik, Peter Cappers, Brian F Gerke, Richard E Brown, and Mary Ann Piette."Potential Impacts of Dynamic Electricity Pricing in California: Load Shape and Customer Bill Impacts Under Elastic Customer Response." (2025). DOI

DeForest, Nicholas, Miguel Heleno, JP Daniel, and Amanda Krelling."Project Planning for Community Resilience: Aquinnah and Chilmark, Massachusetts." (2025).

Podpora, Adam, Cody Matthews, David Rearden, Calvin Monson, Kathryn Chelminski, and Lisa C Schwartz." Clearing the Fog on Interconnection Queues: Increasing Data Access, Transparency, and Security." (2025).

Jin, Ling, Joseph H Eto, Ji Yoon Lee, and Alex Hoffman."Distribution Feeder Characteristics and Their Resiliency to Natural Hazards ." (2025).

Paulos, Bentham."DOE Energy Innovator Fellows Informational Webinar: Data Vizualization." (2025).

Carvallo, Juan Pablo."DOE Energy Innovator Fellows Informational Webinar: Electric System Reliability." (2025).

Cheyette, Anna, Julie Mulvaney Kemp, Will Gorman, Seongeun Jeong, and Dev Millstein."Empirical Assessment of Interregional Coordination to Support Resource Adequacy." (2025).

Collins, Myles T, and Lisa C Schwartz."Grid Resilience Planning for Severe Storms: Eastern/Southeastern Region Training for Public Utility Commissions and State Energy Offices." (2025).

Larsen, Peter H, Kyle Carney, Joseph H Eto, George Jiang, Dhawal Joshi, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Ridge Peterson, Christopher Ramee, and Anna-Elise Smith."ICE Calculator 2.0: Final Report for Phase 1 of the National Initiative to Update the Interruption Cost Estimate (ICE) Calculator." (2025).

Rand, Joseph, Karl Hoesch, Robi Nilson, Ben Hoen, Sarah Mills, Douglas L Bessette, and Jacob White."More power to them: U.S. large-scale solar neighbors' support for additional solar."Frontiers in Sustainable Energy Policy 4 (2025). DOI

Davis, Cody."Power Flow Analysis for DER Interconnections." (2025).

Relf, Grace, Matia Whiting, Lisa C Schwartz, and Evan Cappers."Regulatory Sandboxes and Other Processes to Expedite Utility Adoption of Advanced Grid Technologies." (2025).

Sergi, Brian, Jennie Jorgenson, Lawryn Kiboma, Zack Jensen, Dev Millstein, Natalie Mims Frick, and Fredrich Kahrl."Solar and Storage Integration in the U.S. Southeast: Implications for Resource Adequacy." (2025).

McAdams, Jasmine, and Natalie Mims Frick."DOE Energy Innovator Fellows Informational Webinar: Stakeholder Engagement." (2025).

Relf, Grace, and Kathryn Chelminski."DOE Energy Innovator Fellows on Distributed Energy Resource Interconnection." (2025).

Terwilliger, Hanna, Derek Duran, Ken Habel, Katie Cleary, Lisa C Schwartz, and Kathryn Chelminski."Speed Dating: Faster Connections Between Customer Resources and Utility Grids." (2025).

Kahrl, Fredrich, Josh A Schellenberg, Lisa C Schwartz, Diana Rucavado Rojas, Brittany Tarufelli, Kyle Wilson, and Juliet Homer."Transmission Cost Allocation Practices." (2025).

Schwartz, Lisa C, and Peter Cappers."USDOE Energy Innovator Fellows Informational Webinar: Resources and Assistance for State Energy Offices and Regulators." (2025).

Davis, Cody, Natalie Mims Frick, Chris Lawrie, Grace Relf, Nancy Ryan, Andrew Satchwell, and Lisa C Schwartz."Denver Training for States on Integrated Distribution System Planning: Planning for Load Growth and Local Resources." (2025).