Research Themes +
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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About Us +
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.

Publications by Research Area

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Publications

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2022

O'Shaughnessy, Eric."Rooftop solar incentives remain effective for low- and moderate-income adoption."Energy Policy 163 (2022). DOI

Darghouth, Naïm R., Eric O'Shaughnessy, Sydney Forrester, and Galen L. Barbose."Characterizing local rooftop solar adoption inequity in the US."Environmental Research Letters 17.3 (2022). DOI

Barbose, Galen L., Sydney Forrester, Eric O'Shaughnessy, and Naïm R. Darghouth."Residential Solar-Adopter Income and Demographic Trends: 2022 Update." (2022).

Bolinger, Mark, Ryan H. Wiser, and Eric O'Shaughnessy."Levelized cost-based learning analysis of utility-scale wind and solar in the United States."iScience 25.6 (2022). DOI

2021

Kim, James Hyungkwan, Andrew D. Mills, Ryan H. Wiser, Mark Bolinger, Will Gorman, Cristina Crespo Montañés, and Eric O'Shaughnessy."Project developer options to enhance the value of solar electricity as solar and storage penetrations increase."Applied Energy 304 (2021). DOI

O'Shaughnessy, Eric, Galen L. Barbose, Ryan H. Wiser, and Sydney Forrester."Income-targeted marketing as a supply-side barrier to low-income solar adoption."iScience 24.10 (2021). DOI

Barbose, Galen L., Naïm R. Darghouth, Eric O'Shaughnessy, and Sydney Forrester."Tracking the Sun: Pricing and Design Trends for Distributed Photovoltaic Systems in the United States, 2021 Edition." (2021).

Paulos, Bentham, Sydney Forrester, Eric O'Shaughnessy, Christopher Dyson, Galen L. Barbose, and Ryan H. Wiser."An Assessment of Evaluation Practices of Low- And Moderate-Income Solar Programs." (2021).

Barbose, Galen L., Sydney Forrester, Eric O'Shaughnessy, and Naïm R. Darghouth."Residential Solar-Adopter Income and Demographic Trends: 2021 Update." (2021).

2020

Barbose, Galen L., Naïm R. Darghouth, Eric O'Shaughnessy, and Sydney Forrester."Distributed Solar 2020 Data Update." (2020).

O'Shaughnessy, Eric, Galen L. Barbose, Ryan H. Wiser, Sydney Forrester, and Naïm R. Darghouth."The impact of policies and business models on income equity in rooftop solar adoption."Nature Energy (2020). DOI

O'Shaughnessy, Eric, Galen L. Barbose, and Ryan H. Wiser."Patience is a virtue: A data-driven analysis of rooftop solar PV permitting timelines in the United States."Energy Policy 144 (2020). DOI

Gorman, Will, Andrew D. Mills, Mark Bolinger, Ryan H. Wiser, Nikita G. Singhal, Erik Ela, and Eric O'Shaughnessy."Motivations and options for deploying hybrid generator-plus-battery projects within the bulk power system."The Electricity Journal 33.5 (2020). DOI

2018

Wiser, Ryan H., Naïm R. Darghouth, Ben Hoen, Galen L. Barbose, Joachim Seel, Varun Rai, Ariane Beck, Ashok Sekar, D. Cale Reeves, Erik Funkhouser, Eric O'Shaughnessy, Ben Sigrin, and Casey Canfield."Diffusion of Innovations: Interplay of Social, Economic, Technological, and Policy Drivers in the Solar Industry—Summary of UT Austin Student Capstone Research Projects." (2018).

2016

O'Shaughnessy, Eric, Gregory Nemet, and Naïm R. Darghouth."Using the Spatial Distribution of Installers to Define Solar Photovoltaic Markets." (2016).

Nemet, Gregory, Eric O'Shaughnessy, Ryan H. Wiser, Naïm R. Darghouth, Galen L. Barbose, Kenneth Gillingham, and Varun Rai."What Factors Affect the Prices of Low-Priced U.S. Solar PV Systems?." (2016).

Nemet, Gregory, Eric O'Shaughnessy, Ryan H. Wiser, Naïm R. Darghouth, Galen L. Barbose, Kenneth Gillingham, and Varun Rai."Characteristics of Low-Priced Solar Photovoltaic Systems in the United States." (2016).

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